Publications

Pourya Shahverdi , Samuel Walker , Karoline Kenville , Alex Tyshka , Jessica Korneder , Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie (2026). Co-Design of a Robot-Mediated Training Program for Informal Caregivers to Learn to Deliver Interventions to Children with Autism. 2026 IEEE 35th International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).

Iman Bakhoda , Pourya Shahverdi , Katelyn Rousso , Evan Dallas , Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie (2026). Robot-mediated Read-aloud Context of Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development. Computers & Education.

Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie , Tanya Christ , Pourya Shahverdi , Katelyn Rousso , Evan Dallas , Alexander Tyshka , Amanda Wowra , Kendra Barnett , Iman Bakhoda (2024). Exploring Task-Level Contingent Mediations for Vocabulary Instruction across Robot, Virtual, and Human Teachers. 2024 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN).

Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie , Tanya Christ , Amanda Wowra , Danielle Alexander , Iman Bakhoda , Pourya Shahverdi (2024). “If a Robot was Teaching, Then Everybody Would Definitely Like School Better”: An Analysis of Grade 3-5 Children’s Perceptions of Learning STEM Vocabulary with an Educational Social Robot. 2024 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN).

Pourya Shahverdi , Iman Bakhoda , Katelyn Rousso , Justin Klotz , Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie (2024). Exploring the Impact of Narrator Type on Response Latency and Utterance Length During Interactive Storytelling. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

Christopher M Wilson , Lori Boright , Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie , Pourya Shahverdi , Sara K Arena , Ronald Benbow , Jason R Wilson , Qinghua Chen , Katie Rousso , Nathan Huang (2023). Effect of robotic delivery of physical activity and fall prevention exercise in older adults: a pilot cohort study. Cureus.

Keyhan Rayati , Amirhossein Feizi , Alireza Beigy , Pourya Shahverdi , Mehdi Tale Masouleh , Ahmad Kalhor , Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie (2023). Real-Time Imitation of Human Head Motions, Blinks and Emotions by Nao Robot: A Closed-Loop Approach. 2023 11th RSI International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM).

Pourya Shahverdi , Katelyn Rousso , Justin Klotz , Iman Bakhoda , Malek Zribi , Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie (2023). Emotionally Specific Backchanneling in Social Human-Robot Interaction and Human-Human Interaction. 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

Pourya Shahverdi , Katelyn Rousso , Iman Bakhoda , Nathan Huang , Kristin Rohrbeck , Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie (2023). Robot-mediated Job Interview Training for Individuals with ASD: A Pilot Study. 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).

Pourya Shahverdi , Alexander Tyshka , Madeline Trombly , Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie (2022). Learning Turn-Taking Behavior from Human Demonstrations for Social Human-Robot Interactions. 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).