Education, Research, Press

Selected Publications

Parreira, M. T., Lingaraju, S. G., Ramirez‑Aristizabal, A., Bremers, A., Saha, M., Kuniavsky, M., & Ju, W. “Bad Idea, Right?” Exploring Anticipatory Human Reactions for Outcome Prediction in HRI. To appear, RO-MAN 2024.
preprint here
Parreira, M. T., Lingaraju, S. G., Ramirez‑Aristizabal, A., Saha, M., Kuniavsky, M., & Ju, W. (2024). A Study on Domain Generalization for Failure Detection through Human Reactions in HRI. arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.06315.
Parreira, M. T., Lingaraju, S. G., Ramirez‑Aristizabal, A., Bremers, A., Saha, M., Kuniavsky, M., & Ju, W. (2023). Bad Idea? Exploring Anticipatory Human Reactions for Outcome Prediction [Poster]. In NERC2023: Northeast Robotics Colloquium 2023, New Haven, USA.

Poster here

Spitale, M., Stower, R., Yadollahi, E., Parreira, M. T., Abbasi, N. I., Leite, I., & Gunes, H. (2023). A Systematic Review on Reproducibility in Child-Robot Interaction. arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.01822. https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.01822

Parreira, M. T., Sack, M. J. & Jung, M. (2023). What predicts interpersonal affect? Preliminary analyses from retrospective evaluations. In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE RO-MAN. IEEE

Sack, M. J., Parreira, M. T., Fu, J., Lipman, A., Javed, H., Jamali, N., & Jung, M. (2023). CORAE: A Tool for Intuitive and Continuous Retrospective Evaluation of Interactions. ArXiv. /abs/2306.16629. https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16629
Maria Teresa Parreira, Sarah Gillet, Katie Winkle, and Iolanda Leite. 2023. How Did We Miss This? A Case Study on Unintended Biases in Robot Social Behavior. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’23 Companion), March 13–16, 2023, Stockholm, Sweden. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3568294.3580032
Alexandra W. Bremers, Maria Teresa Parreira, Xu Fang, Natalie Friedman, Adolfo G. Ramirez-Aristizabal, Alexandria Pabst, Mirjana Spasojevic, Michael Kuniavsky and Wendy Ju. 2023. “The Bystander Affect Detection (BAD) Dataset for Failure Detection in HRI.” ArXiv abs/2303.04835. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2303.04835
Alexandra W. Bremers., Alexandria Pabst, Maria Teresa Parreira, and Wendy Ju. 2023. Using Social Cues to Recognize Task Failures for HRI: A Review of Current Research and Future Directions. ArXiv, abs/2301.11972. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2301.11972

Maria Teresa Parreira, Sarah Gillet, Marynel Vázquez, and Iolanda Leite. 2022. Design Implications for Effective Robot Gaze Behaviors in Multiparty Interactions. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '22). IEEE Press, 976–980. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3523760.3523918

Sarah Gillet, Maria Teresa Parreira, Marynel Vázquez, and Iolanda Leite. 2022. Learning Gaze Behaviors for Balancing Participation in Group Human-Robot Interactions. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '22). IEEE Press, 265–274. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3523760.3523798

PhD Student, Information Science, Cornell University. Advisors: Profs. Malte Jung, Wendy Ju

Research Engineer at Robotics,Perception and Learning Department, KTH (Stockholm, Sweden)

Scholar for Institute for Systems and Robotics (Lisboa, Portugal), in collaboration with Dahl's Lab at Carnegie Mellon University (USA)

Internship at Institute for Systems and Robotics (Lisboa, Portugal), a machine learning approach to segmentation of MRI images in cases of MS

Internship at Institute for Systems and Robotics (Lisboa, Portugal), development of grasping motion for the Vizzy robot

Teaching Assistant in Histology, Faculty of Medicine in University of Lisbon (Portugal)

Integrated MSc in Biomedical Engineering, IST (Lisboa, Portugal)

Magna cum laude (19/20) , Master Thesis Dissertation in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA) evaluated at 20/20

Exchange semester in Tsinghua University (Beijing, China)

Computer Science Department

06/2023, MIRRORLab (remote) - "How can we (should we) become better roboticists? A Case Study on Unintended Biases in Robot Social Behavior"

05/2023, GAIPS (Lisboa) - “How Did They Come Across?” Lessons Learned from Continuous Affective Ratings"
05/2023, ITI (Lisboa) - “How Did They Come Across?” Lessons Learned from Continuous Affective Ratings"
06/2023 - Attended RPL Summer School (Stockholm)

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2023-25
Late-Breaking Reports, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2022-25
Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI) 2024-25
International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) 2024
01/2023-now - PACT committee (PhDs At Cornell Tech): Co-president (1/2023-1/2024), Social Chair (1/2024-1/2026)
10/2023 - Organizing committee for the IS Retreat
Cognitive Systems Research, 2023
International Journal of Social Robotics, 2022-23