Publications

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Journal articles

  1. J.4

    Introducing M: A Modular, Modifiable Social Robot

    Victor Nikhil Antony, Zhili Gong, Yoonjae Kim, and Chien-Ming Huang

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2026

    arXivProjectAccepted for publication

  2. J.3

    Social Robots for Sleep Health: A Scoping Review

    Victor Nikhil Antony*, Mengchi Li*, Shu-Han Lin, Junxin Li, and Chien-Ming Huang

    International Journal of Social Robotics, 17, 763–777, 2025

    DOI

  3. J.2

    ID.8: Co-Creating Visual Stories with Generative AI

    Victor Nikhil Antony and Chien-Ming Huang

    ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 14(3), Article 20, 2024

    ACM TiiS Highlighted PaperDOIPDFProject

  4. J.1

    Detecting Parkinson Disease Using a Web-Based Speech Task: Observational Study

    Wasifur Rahman, Sangwu Lee, Md Saiful Islam, Victor Nikhil Antony, Harshil Ratnu, Mohammad Rafayet Ali, Abdullah Al Mamun, Ellen Wagner, Stella Jensen-Roberts, Emma Waddell, Taylor Myers, Meghan Pawlik, Julia Soto, Madeleine Coffey, Aayush Sarkar, Ruth Schneider, Christopher Tarolli, Karlo Lizarraga, Jamie Adams, Max A. Little, E. Ray Dorsey, and Ehsan Hoque

    Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(10), e26305, 2021

    DOIPDF

Conference papers

  1. C.10

    ELLA: Generative AI-Powered Social Robots for Early Language Development at Home

    Victor Nikhil Antony*, Shiye Cao*, Shuning Wang, and Chien-Ming Huang

    ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC), 2026

    DOIarXivProject

  2. C.9

    Plant-Inspired Robot Design Metaphors for Ambient HRI

    Victor Nikhil Antony, Adithya R. N., Sarah Derrick, Zhili Gong, Peter M. Donley, and Chien-Ming Huang

    ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2026

    HRI ’26 Best Paper Honorable MentionDOIarXivProjectAcceptance rate 23.2%

  3. C.8

    Lantern: A Minimalist Robotic Object Platform

    Victor Nikhil Antony*, Zhili Gong*, Guanchen Li, Clara Jeon, and Chien-Ming Huang

    ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2026

    DOIProjectBuild guideAcceptance rate 23.2%

  4. C.7

    Interruption Handling for Conversational Robots

    Shiye Cao, Jiwon Moon, Amama Mahmood, Victor Nikhil Antony, Ziang Xiao, Anqi Liu, and Chien-Ming Huang

    Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2025

    arXivProjectAcceptance rate 27.4%

  5. C.6

    Voice Assistants for Health Self-Management: Designing for and with Older Adults

    Amama Mahmood, Shiye Cao, Maia Stiber, Victor Nikhil Antony, and Chien-Ming Huang

    ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Article 511, 2025

    DOIarXivAcceptance rate 24.9%

  6. C.5

    Xpress: A System for Dynamic, Context-Aware Robot Facial Expressions Using Language Models

    Victor Nikhil Antony, Maia Stiber, and Chien-Ming Huang

    ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2025

    DOIProjectAcceptance rate 25%

  7. C.4

    The Design of On-Body Robots for Older Adults

    Victor Nikhil Antony, Clara Jeon, Jiasheng Li, Ge Gao, Huaishu Peng, Anastasia K. Ostrowski, and Chien-Ming Huang

    ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2025

    DOIProjectAcceptance rate 25%

  8. C.3

    Alchemist: LLM-Aided End-User Development of Robot Applications

    Ulas Berk Karli, Juo-Tung Chen, Victor Nikhil Antony, and Chien-Ming Huang

    ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 361–370, 2024

    DOIProjectAcceptance rate 24.9%

  9. C.2

    Co-Designing with Older Adults, for Older Adults: Robots to Promote Physical Activity

    Victor Nikhil Antony*, Sue Min Cho*, and Chien-Ming Huang

    ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 506–515, 2023

    DOIPDFProjectAcceptance rate 25.3%

  10. C.1

    Demographic Feature Isolation for Bias Research using Deepfakes

    Kurtis G. Haut, Caleb Wohn, Victor Antony, Aidan Goldfarb, Melissa Welsh, Dillanie Sumanthiran, M. Rafayet Ali, and Ehsan Hoque

    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM), 2022

    DOIPDFAcceptance rate 28.0%

Workshop papers

  1. W.4

    Practical Trade-offs in Generative Robot Expression Design

    Victor Nikhil Antony, Shiye Cao, and Chien-Ming Huang

    HRI Vizij Workshop and Tutorial on Expressive Robot Faces, 2026

  2. W.3

    Examining Barriers to Equitable Exosuit Use by Older Adults

    Kai-Chieh Liang, Victor Nikhil Antony, Junxin Li, Hao Su, and Chien-Ming Huang

    HRI Equitable Robotics for Wellbeing Workshop, 2026

  3. W.2

    Designing Social Robots that Engage Older Adults in Exercise: A Case Study

    Victor Nikhil Antony and Chien-Ming Huang

    HRI Workshop on HRI for Aging in Place, 2024

    arXiv

  4. W.1

    Projection-Based AR for Hearing Parent-Deaf Child Communication

    Victor Nikhil Antony, Adira Blumenthal, Ziyue Qiu, Ashely Tenesaca, Wanyin Hu, and Zhen Bai

    Frameless, 3(1), Article 19, 2020

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Demos

  1. D.2

    Demonstrating Plant-Inspired Robots for Ambient HRI

    Victor Nikhil Antony and Chien-Ming Huang

    Companion Proceedings of ACM/IEEE HRI (HRI Demo), 1149–1151, 2026

    DOIProject

  2. D.1

    Demonstrating Lantern and Its Variants: A Set of Minimal Robots

    Victor Nikhil Antony, Kai-Chieh Liang, and Chien-Ming Huang

    Companion Proceedings of ACM/IEEE HRI (HRI Demo), 1146–1148, 2026

    HRI ’26 Sustainability Demonstration RecognitionDOIProject