Publications

Papers

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Journal Articles

• CoFrame: A System for Training Novice Cobot Programmers
  White, N.T., Schoen, A., Sullivan, D., & Mutlu, B.
  Journal manuscript under review.
• Digital Aids for Social Media in Adults With Traumatic Brain Injury: Longitudinal Evaluation Study
  Sullivan, D., Patel, N.N., Kakonge, L., Kim, C.Y., Hu, Y., Johnson, H.L., Toma, C.L., Duff, M., Turkstra, L., & Mutlu, B.
  JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies, 2026.
• Robot Primals: Exploring World Beliefs as a Source for Robot Behavior Design
  Sullivan, D., White, N.T., Hu, Y., Clifton, J.D.W., & Mutlu, B.
  ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 2026.

Conference Papers

• See No Evil, Hear No Evil: Exploring Privacy-Preserving Designs for Social Robot Data Collection
  Sullivan, D., Koike, A., He, X., & Mutlu, B.
  Conference manuscript under review.
• Benchmarking LLM Privacy Recognition for Social Robot Decision Making
  Sullivan, D.*, Zhang, S.*, Li, J., Kirkorian, H., Mutlu, B., & Fawaz, K.
  Conference manuscript under review.
• A Communication Initialization Profile (CIP) for Cold-Start LLM Personalization
  Lee, C.P., Sullivan, D., Wang, X.J., & Mutlu, B.
  Conference manuscript under review.
• Designing Social Robot Support for Workers with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
  Johnson, H.L., Sullivan, D., Spalitta, H., & Mutlu, B.
  Conference manuscript under review.
• “It’s like a pet…but my pet doesn’t collect data about me”: Multi-person Households’ Privacy Design Preferences for Household Robots
  Li, J., Zhang, S., Sullivan, D., Cagiltay, B., Kirkorian, H., Mutlu, B., & Fawaz, K.
  Conference manuscript under review.
• “I feel like AI is just everywhere”: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study on Parents’ Perceptions, Use, and Mediation of GenAI
  Li, J., Zhang, S., Sullivan, D., Mutlu, B., Kirkorian, H., & Fawaz, K.
  Conference manuscript under review.
• Beyond Task Success: User Interactions with and Perceptions of Hierarchical VLA-Driven Robots
  He, X., Kim, C.Y., Yi, K., Sullivan, D., Hagenow, M., & Mutlu, B.
  Conference manuscript under review.
• Proxied Bystander Interactions through Telepresence Robots
  Hu, Y., Ye, C., Ma, H., He, X., Sullivan, D., & Mutlu, B.
  Conference manuscript under review.
• Elements of Robot Morphology: Supporting Designers in Robot Form Exploration
  Koike, A., Guo, S.G., He, X., Kim, C.Y., Sullivan, D., & Mutlu, B.
  Proceedings of HRI 2026.
• Making Informed Decisions: Supporting Cobot Integration Considering Business and Worker Preferences
  Sullivan, D., White, N.T., Schoen, A., & Mutlu, B.
  Proceedings of HRI 2024.
• Lively: Enabling Multimodal, Lifelike, and Extensible Real-time Robot Motion 🏆 Best Systems Paper
  Schoen, A., Sullivan, D., Zhang, Z., Rakita, D., & Mutlu, B.
  Proceedings of HRI 2023.
• CONFIDANT: A Privacy Controller for Social Robots
  Tang, B., Sullivan, D., Cagiltay, B., Chandrasekaran, V., Fawaz, K., & Mutlu, B.
  Proceedings of HRI 2022.
• The Role of Trust and Usability to Enable Spaceflight Crew Autonomy
  Marquez, J., Sullivan, D., & Karasinski, J.
  Proceedings of ASCEND 2022.

Other Publications

Conference companion pieces, magazine articles, posters, and archived publications

• Examining the Effectiveness of Obfuscatory Planning Strategies through Human Observation 🏅 Honorable Mention, Best LBR
  Sullivan, D., Porfirio, D., Mutlu, B., & Hiatt, L.M.
  Companion of HRI 2026.
  Poster
• Robots in the Real World: Promise, Peril, and Purposeful Integration
  Sullivan, D.
  XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students, 2026.
• “Luckily, we’re not getting a robot like this”: Co-designing Household Robot Privacy with Tweens, Teens, and Their Families
  Li, J., Zhang, S., Sullivan, D., Kirkorian, H., Mutlu, B., & Fawaz, K.
  Cognitive Development Society Children and Technology Pre-Conference, 2026.
  Poster
• Protecting User Data Through Privacy-Sensitive Robot Design
  Sullivan, D. & Mutlu, B.
  Companion of HRI 2025.
  Poster
• Exploring Families’ Use and Mediation of Generative AI: A Multi-User Perspective
  Zhang, S., Sullivan, D., Li, J., Cagiltay, B., Mutlu, B., Kirkorian, H., & Fawaz, K.
  arXiv preprint, 2025.
• Exploring Differences Between Parents’ Perceptions and Mediation of ChatGPT and Social Media
  Li, J., Cagiltay, B., Zhang, S., Sullivan, D., Kirkorian, H., Mutlu, B., & Fawaz, K.
  Digital Media and Developing Minds International Scientific Congress, 2025.
  Poster
• Demonstrating the Potential of Interactive Product Packaging for Enriching Human-Robot Interaction
  Lee, C., Cagiltay, B., Sullivan, D., & Mutlu, B.
  Companion of HRI 2023.