Maya Cakmak
Professor
Builds assistive and programmable robots, focusing on human-robot interaction and end-user robot programming.
Maya Cakmak's lab at UW works on human-robot interaction & assistive robots. 19 papers since 2023. 3 PhD students and 2 master's students. 30 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 5/ year
- at T1 venues
- 0%
- PhD students
- 3
- MS students
- 2
- alumni listed
- 30
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 0 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 3 papers2025 · T1 0
- 9 papers2024 · T1 0
- 7 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOther
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Human-robot interaction & assistive robots15 papers
- assistive2 papers
- end-user0 papers
- programmable0 papers
- focusing0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20253 papers
- IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)Attitudes towards Humanoid Robots for In-Home Assistance (opens in a new tab)
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)Lessons Learned from Designing and Evaluating a Robot-assisted Feeding System for Out-of-lab Use (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)Preserving Sense of Agency: User Preferences for Robot Autonomy and User Control across Household Tasks (opens in a new tab)
20249 papers
- Companion of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot InteractionAn Adaptable, Safe, and Portable Robot-Assisted Feeding System (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)Diffusion-PbD: Generalizable Robot Programming by Demonstration with Diffusion Features (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)Fast Explicit-Input Assistance for Teleoperation in Clutter (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)I Can Tell What I Am Doing: Toward Real-World Natural Language Grounding of Robot Experiences (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)Learning to Grasp in Clutter with Interactive Visual Failure Prediction (opens in a new tab)
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Workshop on Assistive Applications, Accessibility, and Disability Ethics (A3DE)Multiple Ways of Working with Users to Develop Physically Assistive Robots (opens in a new tab)
- Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous SystemsPhysically assistive robots: A systematic review of mobile and manipulator robots that physically assist people with disabilities (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)Teaching Robots with Show and Tell: Using Foundation Models to Synthesize Robot Policies from Language and Visual Demonstrations (opens in a new tab)
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)Using 3D Mice to Control Robot Manipulators (opens in a new tab)
20237 papers
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) - Late breaking reportsCrowdsourcing Task Traces for Service Robotics (opens in a new tab)
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)Design Principles for Robot-Assisted Feeding in Social Contexts (opens in a new tab)
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)Exploring Levels of Control for a Navigation Assistant for Blind Travelers (opens in a new tab)
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)Sketching Robot Programs On the Fly (opens in a new tab)
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) - Late breaking reportsTell Me About It: Adolescent Self-Disclosure with an Online Robot for Mental Health (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)Towards general single-utensil food acquisition with human-informed actions (opens in a new tab)
- Companion of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)Unintended Failures of Robot-Assisted Feeding in Social Contexts (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went30 listed
Apply to UWFall 2027
UW Allen School Computer Science PhD
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