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.

Shutter, our robot photographer, being deployed in Becton.

Furhat tries to balance participation in group interaction (project in collaboration with S. Gillet, M. T. Parreira and Iolanda Leite at KTH).

Our Social Environment for Autonomous Navigation (SEAN). See sean.interactive-machines.com for more details

June 2020 group picture (captured in 4 different time zones!)

Fall 2019 group picture. The lab keeps growing!

Cozmos in new study about motivating prosocial human behavior (to appear at HRI'20).

Testing Shutter in the lab.

Kuri being tested in the lab for a new NSF NRI project!

Robots and computers for CPSC-459/559 Building Interactive Machines.

First big qualitative analysis of human-robot interaction data in the lab.

Summer 2019 group picture - blurry but taken by a robot that tried to make us smile!

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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

• Apr 6, 2022

  IMG Celebrates Recent Achievements

  Kate Candon received a Honorable Mention from the NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program and Marynel Vázquez was awarded an NSF FRR CAREER Award!
• Mar 5, 2022

  IMG Participates in HRI 2022

  Several students will be presenting their latest work in the main HRI conference and associated workshops.
• Feb 7, 2022

  Social Navigation Symposium by Google+Stanford

  IMG participated in the symposium, which involved discussions on a number of open questions in autonomous robot navigation.
• Jan 21, 2022

  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.
• Dec 22, 2021

  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!
• Oct 3, 2021

  New IMG publications at IROS'21 and ICMI'21

  Congratulations to all the authors!

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Lab Location

Yale University, AKW 400
51 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511