Pragathi Praveena - Robots for teams: Insights on Periscope system design for remote collaboration

Talking Robotics #73

Speaker
Pragathi Praveena

Title
Robots for teams: Insights from designing the Periscope system to support remote collaboration

Speaker Bio
Pragathi Praveena is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where she contributes to the NSF AI-CARING Institute. Her research explores the intersection of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), with a focus on developing novel interactive systems that facilitate human-to-human communication and collaboration. Pragathi earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with her work supported by funding from the NSF and NASA. Her work was nominated for Best Paper at HRI, and she was selected to be an HRI and RSS Pioneer. Prior to her doctoral studies, Pragathi was a researcher at the Xerox Research Center India and earned a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Chapters
00:00 Presenter Introduction
01:11 Presentation
35:56 Q&A
42:55 End

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Talking Robotics is a series of virtual seminars about Robotics and its interaction with other relevant fields, such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Design Research, Human-Robot Interaction, among others. We aim to promote reflections, dialogues, and a place to network.

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