Research

Publications

Conversational Intelligence Robot dialogue, interruptions, context-aware expression
Xpress: A System for Dynamic, Context-Aware Robot Facial Expressions Using Language Models
Victor Nikhil Antony, Maia Stiber, Chien-Ming Huang
HRI 2025 paper →
Interruption Handling for Conversational Robots
Shiye Cao, Jiwon Moon, Amama Mahmood, Victor Nikhil Antony, Ziang Xiao, Anqi Liu, Chien-Ming Huang
arXiv 2025 paper →
Real-World Deployment Fielding robots with real users over time — aging, exercise, on-body systems
ELLA: Generative AI-Powered Social Robots for Early Language Development at Home
Victor Nikhil Antony, Shiye Cao, Shuning Wang, Chien-Ming Huang
arXiv 2026 paper →
The Design of On-Body Robots for Older Adults
Victor Nikhil Antony, Clara Jeon, Jiasheng Li, Ge Gao, Huaishu Peng, Anastasia K. Ostrowski, Chien-Ming Huang
HRI 2025 paper →
Lantern: A Minimalist Robotic Object Platform
Victor Nikhil Antony*, Zhili Gong*, Guanchen Li, Clara Jeon, Chien-Ming Huang
arXiv 2026 project →
Co-Designing with Older Adults, for Older Adults: Robots to Promote Physical Activity
Victor Nikhil Antony*, Sue Min Cho*, Chien-Ming Huang
HRI 2023 25.3% acceptance paper →
Designing Social Robots that Engage Older Adults in Exercise: A Case Study
Victor Nikhil Antony, Chien-Ming Huang
arXiv 2024 paper →
Generative AI for Embodied Systems LLMs as the reasoning backbone for robot behavior and end-user programming
ID.8: Co-Creating Visual Stories with Generative AI
Victor Nikhil Antony, Chien-Ming Huang
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 2024 paper →
Alchemist: LLM-Aided End-User Development of Robot Applications
Ulas Berk Karli, Juo-Tung Chen, Victor Nikhil Antony, Chien-Ming Huang
HRI 2024 paper →
Health & Well-being Social AI for aging, sleep, and chronic disease
Voice Assistants for Health Self-Management: Designing for and with Older Adults
Amama Mahmood, Shiye Cao, Maia Stiber, Victor Nikhil Antony, Chien-Ming Huang
CHI 2025 paper →
Social Robots for Sleep Health: A Scoping Review
Victor Nikhil Antony*, Mengchi Li*, Shu-Han Lin, Junxin Li, Chien-Ming Huang
International Journal of Social Robotics, 2025 paper →
Detecting Parkinson's Disease Using a Web-Based Speech Task: Observational Study
Wasifur Rahman, Sangwu Lee, Md Saiful Islam, Victor Nikhil Antony, et al.
JMIR 2021 63 citations paper →
Design Research & Earlier Work Speculative robotics, accessibility, and earlier work in fairness and multimodal systems
Plant-Inspired Robot Design Metaphors for Ambient HRI
Victor Nikhil Antony, Adithya R. N., Sarah Derrick, Zhili Gong, Peter M. Donley, Chien-Ming Huang
HRI 2026 project →
Demonstrating Plant-Inspired Robots for Ambient HRI
Victor Nikhil Antony, Chien-Ming Huang
HRI Companion 2026 project →
Demographic Feature Isolation for Bias Research using Deepfakes
Kurtis Haut, Caleb Wohn, Victor Nikhil Antony, Aidan Goldfarb, Melissa Welsh, Dillanie Sumanthiran, M Rafayet Ali, Ehsan Hoque
ACM Multimedia 2022 24.6% acceptance paper →
Projection-Based AR for Hearing Parent–Deaf Child Communication
Victor Nikhil Antony, Adira Blumenthal, Ziyue Qiu, Ashely Tenesaca, Wanyin Hu, Zhen Bai
Frameless 2020 paper →