Maja Mataric
Chan Soon-Shiong Chair and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Pediatrics
Develops socially assistive robots for therapy, rehabilitation and education in the Interaction Lab.
Maja Mataric's lab at USC works on human-robot interaction & assistive robots, language & society and learning & education technology. 44 papers since 2023, 15 at top venues, mostly HRI and AAAI. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 11/ year
- at T1 venues
- 34%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 5 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 15 papers2025 · T1 4
- 12 papers2024 · T1 9
- 12 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: HRI, AAAI, ICMI, Findings of ACL, CHI
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Human-robot interaction & assistive robots27 papers
- Language & society9 papers
- socially9 papers
- Learning & education technology4 papers
- assistive robots4 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
20265 papers
- Findings of ACLCan Large Language Models Infer Human Actions and Motives? Evaluation in Social Prediction and Inspection Games (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)Can LLMs Truly Embody Human Personality? Analyzing AI and Human Behavior Alignment in Dispute Resolution (opens in a new tab)
- TAFFCEmbodied Agent-Facilitated Virtual Support Groups for University Students (opens in a new tab)
- TEIExploring Remote Affective Communication Through a Haptic Wearable and Socially Assistive Robot (opens in a new tab)
- Educ. Inf. Technol.Multi-week, in-class deployments of telepresence robots with four homebound K-12 students: Benefits, challenges, and recommendations (opens in a new tab)
202515 papers
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag.An Interactive Augmented Reality Interface for Personalized Proxemics Modeling: Comfort and Human-Robot Interactions (opens in a new tab)
- HRI (T1)Contrastive Learning from Exploratory Actions: Leveraging Natural Interactions for Preference Elicitation (opens in a new tab)
- Int. J. Soc. RoboticsDesigning Robot Identity: The Role of Voice, Clothing, and Task on Robot Gender Perception (opens in a new tab)
- RO-MANEngagement and Disclosures in LLM-Powered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Exercises: A Factorial Design Comparing the Influence of a Robot vs. Chatbot Over Time (opens in a new tab)
- Interspeech (T1)Examining Test-Time Adaptation for Personalized Child Speech Recognition (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI Spring SymposiaExploring Socially Assistive Peer Mediation Robots for Teaching Conflict Resolution to Elementary School Students (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag.In Memoriam: George A. Bekey (1928-2024) [Society News] (opens in a new tab)
- IDCIs AI Ready to Support Speech Therapy for Children? A Systematic Review of AI-Enabled Mobile Apps for Pediatric Speech Therapy (opens in a new tab)
- ICORRModeling Personalized Difficulty of Rehabilitation Exercises Using Causal Trees (opens in a new tab)
- ICMIMultimodal Behavioral Characterization of Dyadic Alliance in Support Groups (opens in a new tab)
- ICSR+AIPersonalized Socially Assistive Robots with End-to-End Speech-Language Models for Well-Being Support (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Promoting Cognitive Health in Elder Care with Large Language Model-Powered Socially Assistive Robots (opens in a new tab)
202412 papers
- HRI (T1)Adapting Task Difficulty in a Cup-Stacking Rehabilitative Task (opens in a new tab)
- ACIIBehind the Smile: Mental Health Implications of Mother-Infant Interactions Revealed Through Smile Analysis (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)Build Your Own Robot Friend: An Open-Source Learning Module for Accessible and Engaging AI Education (opens in a new tab)
- HRI (T1)Design and Evaluation of a Socially Assistive Robot Schoolwork Companion for College Students with ADHD (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI Spring SymposiaHow Can Large Language Models Enable Better Socially Assistive Human-Robot Interaction: A Brief Survey (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)Learning to Learn Faster from Human Feedback with Language Model Predictive Control (opens in a new tab)
- HRI (T1)MOE-Hair: Toward Soft and Compliant Contact-rich Hair Manipulation and Care (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)PyLips: an Open-Source Python Package to Expand Participation in Embodied Interaction (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)Quality-Diversity Generative Sampling for Learning with Synthetic Data (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Tactile Comfort: Lowering Heart Rate Through Interactions with a Pocket Robot (opens in a new tab)
- URToward Anxiety-Reducing Pocket Robots for Children (opens in a new tab)
- HRI (T1)Using Exploratory Search to Learn Representations for Human Preferences (opens in a new tab)
202312 papers
- Sci. Robotics"Robots for good": Ten defining questions (opens in a new tab)
- Sci. RoboticsA metric for characterizing the arm nonuse workspace in poststroke individuals using a robot arm (opens in a new tab)
- ICMIA Robot Just for You: Multimodal Personalized Human-Robot Interaction and the Future of Work and Care (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Trans. Hum. Robot Interact.Design Metaphors for Understanding User Expectations of Socially Interactive Robot Embodiments (opens in a new tab)
- HRI (T1)Evaluating and Personalizing User-Perceived Quality of Text-to-Speech Voices for Delivering Mindfulness Meditation with Different Physical Embodiments (opens in a new tab)
- ICMIExpanding the Role of Affective Phenomena in Multimodal Interaction Research (opens in a new tab)
- BIBMInvestigating the Generalizability of Physiological Characteristics of Anxiety (opens in a new tab)
- RO-MANMoveToCode: An Embodied Augmented Reality Visual Programming Language with an Autonomous Robot Tutor for Promoting Student Programming Curiosity (opens in a new tab)
- CHI Extended AbstractsSocially Assistive Robots as Decision Makers: Transparency, Motivations, and Intentions (opens in a new tab)
- ISERThe RoSiD Tool: Empowering Users to Design Multimodal Signals for Human-Robot Collaboration (opens in a new tab)
- FGTowards Intercultural Affect Recognition: Audio-Visual Affect Recognition in the Wild Across Six Cultures (opens in a new tab)
- Int. J. Soc. RoboticsUsing Socially Assistive Robots in Speech-Language Therapy for Children with Language Impairments (opens in a new tab)
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Computer Science PhD (Viterbi)
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