James E. Young, PhD
CV: 
, young＠cs.umanitoba.ca
Assistant Professor, University of Manitoba, and regular visitor to DesignUI and Igarashi Laboratory
Style by Demonstration (2012):
Teaching Interactive Movement Style to Robots
JAMES E. YOUNG, Kentaro Ishii, Takeo Igarashi, and Ehud Sharlin. Style by Demonstration: Teaching Interactive Movement Style to Robots. In proceedings of IUI 2012 (to appear).
How to Walk a Robot(2011):
A Dog-Leash Human-Robot Interface
JAMES E. YOUNG, Youichi Kamiyama, Juliane Reichenbach, Takeo Igarashi, and Ehud Sharlin. How to Walk A Robot: A Dog-Leash Human-Robot Interface. In proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2011, RO-MAN 2011, Altanta, US, July 31--Aug 3, 2011. IEEE.
Snakey (2011):
A Tangible User Interface Supporting Well Path Planning
John Harris, JAMES E. YOUNG, Nicole Sultanum, Paul Lapides, Ehud Sharlin, Mario Costa Sousa. Designing Snakey: A tangible User Interface Supporting Well Path Planning. In the IFIP TCI3 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2011, Interact 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, September 5--9, 2011. IFIP
Evaluating Human-Robot Interaction (2011):
Focusing on the Holistic Interaction Experience.
JAMES E. YOUNG, JaYoung Sung, Amy Voida, Ehud Sharlin, Takeo Igarashi, Henrik I. Christensen, and Rebecca E. Grinter. Evaluating Human-Robot Interaction: Focusing on the Holistic Interaction Experience. International Journal on Social Robotics 3(1). Springer.
Exploring Social Interaction Between Robots and People (2010):
PhD Dissertation
Defended August 2010
The Haptic Tabletop Puck (2009):
Tactile feedback for interactive tabletops.
To be presented at Tabletop 2009.
Nicolai Marquardt, Miguel A. Nacenta, JAMES E. YOUNG, Sheelagh Carpendale, Saul Greenberg, and Ehud Sharlin. The haptic tabletop puck: providing tactile feedback for interactive tabletops. To appear in proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Tabletops and Interactive Surfaces, 2009. Tabletop '09, Banff, Canada, November 23-25, 2009. ACM Press.
Touch and Toys for HRI (2008):
Using touch and toys to control a team of robots.
Presented at CHI 2009.
Cheng Guo, JAMES E. YOUNG, and Ehud Sharlin. Touch and Toys: new techniques for interaction with a remote group of robots. In proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009. CHI '09, Boston, US, April 4-9, 2009, ACM Press.
Toward Acceptable Domestic Robots (2009):
Applying Insights from Social Psychology.
JAMES E. YOUNG, Richard Hawkins, Ehud Sharlin, and Takeo Igarashi. Toward Acceptable Domestic Robots: Applying Insights from Social Psychology. Inaugural Issue of the International Journal on Social Robotics 1(1) (Jan 2009). Springer.
PuppetMaster
Programming interactive characters by demonstration. Presented at SCA 2008.
JAMES E. YOUNG, Takeo Igarashi, and Ehud Sharlin. Puppet Master: Designing Reactive Character Behavior by Demonstration. In proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, 2008. ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics SCA '08, Dublin, Ireland, July 7--9 2008, pages 183--191, Eurographics Association.
Live Screenshot
Cartoon and comic art for human-robot interaction. Initial phases presented at HRI 2007.
JAMES E. YOUNG, Min Xin, and Ehud Sharlin. Robot Expressionism through Cartooning. In proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2007. ACM HRI '07, Washington D.C., USA, March 9-11, 2007, pages 309-316, ACM Press.
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A Sony AIBO for distributed groupware interaction using a collaborative, public user interface, real-time control, audio notifications and streaming video.
JAMES E. YOUNG, Gregor McEwan, Saul Greenberg and Ehud Sharlin. Moving a Media Space into the Real World through GroupRobot Interaction. In video session and in adjunct proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, 2007. Pervasive 07, Toronto, Canada, May 1315. Video 1:50, paper 4 pages.
JAMES E. YOUNG, Gregor McEwan, Saul Greenberg and Ehud Sharlin. AIBO Surrogate A Group-Robot Interface. Demonstration at ACM Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2006. ACM CSCW 06, Banff, Canada, November 48, 2006.
Neko Playing with Toy
An automated, internet-capable Phidget cat-toy for hours of feline fun.
JAMES E. YOUNG, Neko Young, Saul Greenberg and Ehud Sharlin. Feline Fun Park: A Distributed Tangible Interface for Pets and Owners. In video session and in adjunct proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, 2007. Pervasive 07, Toronto, Canada, May 1315. Video 1:13, paper 4 pages.
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A Blobtree add-on using a particle system to create sketch-like renderings.
User playing an Ergonomic Instrument
Discussion of what makes an instrument ergonomic and a prototype implementation.
Dustin van Gerven and JAMES E. YOUNG. Ergonomic Music: Where Does it fit in? Departmental technical report 2007-850-02, 2007, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Harr-based AIBO Detection (2005-2006):
Successful Detection
Real-time detection and tracking of AIBO from a wide range of poses.
JAMES E. YOUNG, Ehud Sharlin, and Jeffrey E. Boyd. Implementing Bubblegrams: The Use of Haar-like Features for Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2006. IEEE CASE 06, Shanghai, China, October 8-10, 2006, pages 308--313, IEEE Computer Society Press.
Mixed Reality Integrated Environment (2005-2006):
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Exploration and implementation of using mixed reality for human-robot interaction.
JAMES E. YOUNG and Ehud Sharlin. Sharing Spaces with Robots: an Integrated Environment for Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Intelligent Environments, 2006. ISIE 06, Cambridge, UK, April 57, 2006, pages 103110, Cambridge, UK, April 2006. Microsoft Research Ltd., Microsoft Research Ltd. Press.
Fun (non-research) Projects
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Patch-based openGL Radiosity solution.
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Implementations of several lighting and shading models using hardware GPU shaders.
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Spatial audio mixing from various sources, where icons represent instruments and size/rotation of icon represents properties.
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Use multiple mice to pluck these musical bands and create earth-shattering music!
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Forwards raytracer implementation with several primitives and octtree optimisation.
Space Model Machine (2004-2005):
An analytical approach to and implementation of a multi-agent system.
Targeted Platform
A cross-compiler for a new language LURN that targeted the Tandy Color Computer 3.