Welcome to the website of the Interactive Machines Group (IMG)!
IMG is an interdisciplinary research group led by Marynel Vázquez in Yale's Computer Science Department.
Our group studies fundamental problems at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Robotics. In particular, our current research agenda is focused on enabling situated social interactions between robots and multiple people. We spend our day-to-day building novel computational tools, prototyping interactive systems, and running user experiments to both better understand interactions with technology and validate our methods. More information about current research directions can be found in the research page.
News
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Frontiers in Robotics and AI article: Pose Generation for Social Robots
The paper presents two approaches for pose generation in conversational group formations: a geometric optimization-based approach, and a data-driven generative model. -
Joe Connolly is selected as Finalist for the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award
Congratulations to Joe and all other student researchers that were recognized by the CRA! -
New IMG publications at IROS'21 and ICMI'21
Congratulations to all the authors! -
IMG participates in the AAAI Spring Symposium on ML for Mobile Robot Navigation in the Wild
Nathan presented our recent work on SEAN and SEAN-EP. -
Two IMG papers are accepted at HRI 2021!
One full paper and one late-breaking report by members of our lab will appear this March at the 2021 International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. -
Nathan Tsoi becomes a member of the 2021 HRI Pioneers cohort!
Each year, the HRI Pioneers Workshop brings together a cohort of the world's top student researchers and provides opportunities for students to discuss their research with distinguished peers and senior scholars in HRI.
Lab Location
Yale University, AKW 400
51 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511