Cindy L. Bethel, Ph.D.

Note: In my professional community, some of full-text refereed conference articles have very low acceptance rates (listed for each relevant article), are widely read, and have a professional impact that is comparable to journal articles.

 

• Bethel, C. L., Henkel, Z., Stives, K., May, D. C., Eakin, D. K., Pilkinton, M., Jones, A., Stubbs-Richardson, M., “Using Robots to Interview Children about Bullying: Lessons Learned from an Exploratory Study." Presentation in the Special Session on Child-Robot Interaction at the 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2016). New York City, NY, USA. August 26-31, 2016. (47% acceptance rate – competitive)

 

• Asif, K.M., Bethel, C. L., Carruth, D., “Iterative Interface Design for Robot Integration with Tactical Teams,” Invited Presentation at the 7th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE2016). Orlando, FL, USA. July 27-31, 2016.

 

• Jensen, L., Garrison, T., Carruth, D., Bethel, C. L., Durst, P., Goodin, C., (July 2016). “Initial Performance Assessment of a Control Interface for Unmanned Ground Vehicle Operation Using a Simulation Platform,” Presentation at the 7th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE2016). Orlando, FL, USA. July 27-31, 2016.

 

• Garrison, T., Jensen, L., Cagle, L., McGinley, J., Carruth, D., Bethel, C. L., Goodin, C., & Durst, P., (July 2016). “Conducting a Prospective Review for Enhanced Interface Features for Unmanned Ground Vehicle Operation.” 7th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE2016). Orlando, FL, USA. July 27-31, 2016.

 

• Pearson III, E., Bethel, C. L., “A Design Review Concept for Mitigating SQL Injection Attacks.” Presentation at the 4th IEEE International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security (ISDFS 2016). Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. April 25-27, 2016.

 

• Downs, D., Comer, T., Archibald, C., Bethel, C. L., Goodin, C., Durst, P., “Enhanced Simulation Techniques for the Automatic Evaluation of Vehicle Designs.” Presentation at the SAE 2016 World Congress and Exhibition in the Modeling and Simulation of Military Ground Vehicles (IDM201) track. Detroit, MI, USA. April 12-14, 2016.

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• Hudson, C. R., Lalejini, A., Odom, B.,Carruth, D. W., Bethel, C. L., Durst, P. J., and Goodin, C. “ANVEL-ROS: The Integration of the Robot Operating System with a High-Fidelity Simulator.” Presentation to the 7th Annual Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering & Technology Symposium & Advanced Planning Briefing for Industry (GVSETS 2015). Novi, MI, USA. August 4-6, 2015.

 

• Crumpton, J. and Bethel, C. L., “Validation of Vocal Prosody Modification to Communicate Emotion in Robot Speech.” Presentation to the 2015 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2015).” Best Paper Award Finalist. Atlanta, GA, USA. June 01-05, 2015.

 

• Bethel, C. L., Carruth, D., Garrison, T., and King, R., “Robot Needs Assessment and Issues Discovered from Tactical SWAT Team Exercises,” Presented at NATO CSO STO AVT-241/RSM-022 Technological and Operational Problems Connected with UGV Application for Future Military Operations. Rseszow, Poland. April 20-22, 2015. (not publicly available)

 

• Lalejini, A., Duckworth, D., Sween, R., Bethel, C. L., Carruth, D. W., “Evaluation of Supervisory Control Interfaces for Mobile Robot Integration with Tactical Teams.” Presentation at the 2014 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts. Evanston, IL, USA. September 11-13, 2014.

 

• Crumpton, J. and Bethel, C. “Conveying Emotion of Robotic Speech: Lessons Learned.” Podium presentation at Ro-Man 2014 - the 23rd Annual IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. Edinburgh, Scotland. August 2014.

 

• Arya, A., Anderson, D., Bethel, C. L., and Carruth, D. "Multi-Kernel Aggregation of Local and Global Features in Long Wave Infrared for Detection of SWAT Teams in Challenging Environments," Presented at SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Conference, Best Student Paper Award in the Automatic Target Recognition Track, Baltimore, MD. April 2013.

 

• Bethel, C. L., Eakin, D., Anreddy, S., Stuart, J. K., and Carruth, D., “Eyewitnesses Are Misled by Human but Not Robot Interviewers.” Presented at the 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2013, Tokyo, Japan, March 2013. (23% acceptance rate)

 

• Bethel, C. L., Carruth, D., and Garrison, T., “Discoveries from Integrating Robots Into SWAT Team Training Exercises,” Invited paper presented at the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2012), College Station, TX, November 2012.

 

• Bethel, C. L., Stevenson, M. R., and Scassellati, B., “Secret-Sharing: Interactions Between a Child, Robot, and Adult.” Presented at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Anchorage, AK. October 2011.

 

• Groom, V., Srinivasan, V., Bethel, C., Murphy, R., Dole, L., and Nass, C., “Responses to Robot Social Roles and Social Role Framing.” Presented at The International Workshop on Collaborative Robots and Human Robot Interaction track at The 2011 International Conference on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2011), Philadelphia, PA. May 2011.​

 

• Bethel, C. L., Bringes, C., and Murphy, R. R., “Non-Facial and Non-Verbal Affective Expression in Appearance-Constrained Robots for Use in Victim Management: Robots to the Rescue!” best video finalist in 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2009, LaJolla, CA. March 2009. (for video send request through the "Contact Me" page.)

 

• Day, B., Bethel, C. L., Burke, J. L., and Murphy, R. R., “A Depth Sensing Display for Bomb Disposal Robots,” in IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2008). Sendai, Japan. October 2008.

 

• Bethel, C. L., Salomon, K., Murphy, R. R., and Burke, J. L., "Survey of Psychophysiology Measurements Applied to Human-Robot Interaction," in 16th IEEE International Symposium on Robot & Human Interactive Communication, Jeju Island, South Korea. August 2007.

 

• Bethel, C. L., Salomon, K., Burke, J. L., and Murphy, R. R., "Psychophysiological Experimental Design for Use in Human-Robot Interaction Studies," in The 2007 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2007), Orlando, FL. May 2007.

 

• Bethel, C. L. and Murphy, R. R., “Non-Facial/Non-Verbal Methods of Affective Expression as Applied to Robot-Assisted Victim Assessment,” in 2nd ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2007), Washington, DC. March 2007. 

 

• Bethel, C. L., Hall, L. O., and Goldgof, D., “Mining for Implications in Medical Data,” presented at 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006), Hong Kong. August 2006.

 

• Dick, S., Bethel, C., and Kandel, A., “Are Software Failures Chaotic?” in 2002 Annual Meeting of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society Proceedings, NAFIPS. June 2002.