PhD Defense: Samantha Speer

Congratulations to Dr. Speer who has successfully defended her PhD Thesis!

Her thesis entitled “Robotic System Design Principles for Human-Human Collaboration”, investigates how robots can be designed to support collaboration between users during assembly tasks. Drawing from cognitive theories used in the disciplines of Computer-Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW), Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), Educational Robotics, and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), it establishes a set of theoretically grounded design principles. I present the empirically validated effect of these design principles on collaboration during various assembly tasks.

You can visit her thesis work at: https://www.ri.cmu.edu/publications/robotic-system-design-principles-for-human-human-collaboration/