HRI 2022

HRI 2022 is the 17th annual conference for basic and applied human-robot interaction research. Researchers from across the world present their best work to HRI to exchange ideas about the theory, technology, data, and science furthering the state-of-the-art in human-robot interaction.

This was my first full conference paper accepted to HRI 2022! While I was excited to attend the conference in-person in Japan, the conference was ultimately shifted online. Still, I was able to present me work, answer a lot of great audience questions, and listen to research from around the globe. I enjoyed the experience and I look forward to the next HRI conference!

Augmented Reality can help programmers debug their code

Programming robots is a challenging task exacerbated by software bugs, faulty hardware, and environmental factors. When coding issues arise, traditional debugging techniques such as output logs or print statements that may help in typical computer applications are not always useful for roboticists. As a result, roboticists often leverage visualizations that depict various aspects of robot, sensor, and environment states. In this paper, we explore various design approaches towards such visualizations for robotics debugging support, including 3D visualizations presented on 2D displays, as in the popular RViz tool within the ROS ecosystem, visualizations in a two-dimensional graphical user interfaces (2D GUI), and emerging immersive three-dimensional (3D) augmented reality (AR).