Conference and Journal Papers

Enabling Morally Sensitive Robotic Clarification Requests
Ryan Blake Jackson and Tom Williams
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (T-HRI), 2022
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Norm-Breaking Responses to Sexist Abuse: A Cross-Cultural Human Robot Interaction Study
Katie Winkle, Ryan Blake Jackson, Gaspar Isaac Melsion, Drazen Brscic, Iolanda Leite, and Tom Williams
Proceedings of the 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2022
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IPOWER: Incremental, Probabilistic, Open-World Reference Resolution
Will Culpepper, Thomas A. Bennett, Lixiao Zhu, Rafael Sousa Silva, Ryan Blake Jackson, and Tom Williams
Proceedings of the 44th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI), 2022
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Why and How Robots Should Say 'No'
Gordon Briggs, Tom Williams, Ryan Blake Jackson, and Matthias Scheutz
International Journal of Social Robotics (IJSR), 2022
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An Integrated Approach to Context-Sensitive Moral Cognition in Robot Cognitive Architectures
Ryan Blake Jackson, Sihui Li, Santosh Balajee Banisetty, Sriram Siva, Hao Zhang, Neil Dantam, and Tom Williams
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021
Finalist for Best Paper Award in Cognitive Robotics
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A Theory of Social Agency for Human-Robot Interaction
Ryan Blake Jackson and Tom Williams
Frontiers in Robotics & AI , 2021
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Blame‑Laden Moral Rebukes and the Morally Competent Robot: A Confucian Ethical Perspective
Qin Zhu, Tom Williams, Ryan Blake Jackson, and Ruchen Wen
Science and Engineering Ethics, 2020
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"Excuse Me, Robot": Impact of Polite Robot Wakewords on Human-Robot Politeness
Tom Williams, Daniel Grollman, Mingyuan Han, Ryan Blake Jackson, Jane Lockshin, Ruchen Wen, Zachary Nahman, and Qin Zhu
International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), 2020
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Exploring the Role of Gender in Perceptions of Robotic Noncompliance
Ryan Blake Jackson, Tom Williams, and Nicole M. Smith
Proceedings of the 15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2020
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Language-Capable Robots may Inadvertently Weaken Human Moral Norms
Ryan Blake Jackson and Tom Williams
Proceedings of the Companion of the 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2019
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Tact in Noncompliance: The Need for Pragmatically Apt Responses to Unethical Commands
Ryan Blake Jackson, Ruchen Wen, and Tom Williams
Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES), 2019
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Robot: Asker of Questions and Changer of Norms?
Ryan Blake Jackson and Tom Williams
Proceedings of the International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES), 2018
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A Bayesian Analysis of Moral Norm Malleability during Clarification Dialogues
Tom Williams, Ryan Blake Jackson, and Jane Lockshin
Proceedings of the 40th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI), 2018
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Amazon Echo Security: Machine Learning to Classify Encrypted Traffic
Ryan Blake Jackson, and Tracy Camp
27th International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN), 2018
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Anomaly Detection in Earth Dam and Levee Passive Seismic Data Using Multivariate Gaussian
Wendy Fisher, Ryan Blake Jackson, Tracy Camp, and Valeria V. Krzhizhanovskaya
16th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), 2017
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Workshop and Other Non-archival Papers

Analyzing the Fluency of Human-Robot Interactions
Emily Weiss, Zeneve Jacotin, Ryan Blake Jackson, Amy Yuan, and James Boerkoel
AAAI 2023 Spring Symposium on HRI in Academia and Industry: Bridging the Gap, 2023
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"I’m Not a Girl": The Myth of Gender Neutrality and the Nonbinary Social Robot
Ruth Mueller, Aoi Yasuda, and Ryan Blake Jackson
RO-MAN Workshop on Gendering Robots: Intersectional Feminist Perspectives on Gender in Social Robotics (GenR), 2022
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Social Good Versus Robot Well-Being: On the Principle of Procreative Beneficence and Robot Gendering
Ryan Blake Jackson and Tom Williams
RO-MAN Workshop on Gendering Robots: Ongoing (Re)configurations of Gender in Robotics (GenR), 2021
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Design, Performance, and Perception of Robot Identity
Ryan Blake Jackson, Alexa Bejarano, Katie Winkle, and Tom Williams
Workshop on Robo-Identity: Artificial identity and multi-embodiment at HRI, 2021
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On the Flexibility of Robot Social Identity Performance: Benefits, Ethical Risks and Open Research Questions for HRI
Katie Winkle, Ryan Blake Jackson, Alexa Bejarano, and Tom Williams
Workshop on Robo-Identity: Artificial identity and multi-embodiment at HRI, 2021
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Identity Performance in Multi-Robot Distributed Systems
Tom Williams, Daniel Ayers, Camille Kaufman, Jon Emmanuel Serrano, Shania Jo Runningrabbit, Sayanti Roy, Poulomi Pal, Alexandra Bejarano, and Ryan Blake Jackson
Workshop on Human-Robot Interaction for Space Robotics at the 12th International Conference on Social Robotics, 2020
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Enabling Morally Sensitive Robotic Clarification Requests
Ryan Blake Jackson and Tom Williams
Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS), 2020
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On Perceived Social and Moral Agency in Natural Language Capable Robots
Ryan Blake Jackson and Tom Williams
HRI Workshop on The Dark Side of Human-Robot Interaction: Ethical Considerations and Community Guidelines for the Field of HRI, 2019
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Towards A Role Ethics Approach to Command Rejection
Ruchen Wen, Ryan Blake Jackson, Tom Williams, and Qin Zhu
HRI Workshop on The Dark Side of Human-Robot Interaction: Ethical Considerations and Community Guidelines for the Field of HRI, 2019
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Abstracts and Presentations

Generating Appropriate Responses to Inappropriate Robot Commands
Ryan Blake Jackson
Proceedings of the Student Program of the 2nd AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES), 2019
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Toward Morally Sensitive Robotic Communication
Ryan Blake Jackson
Proceedings of the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Pioneers Workshop, 2019
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Challenges in Responding to Malicious Robot-Directed Commands
Ryan Blake Jackson and Tom Williams
Extended Abstracts of the Robotics: Science and Systems Workshop on Adversarial Robotics, 2018
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Blame-Laden Moral Rebukes and the Morally Competent Robot: A Confucian Ethical Perspective
Qin Zhu, Tom Williams, and Ryan Blake Jackson
Proceedings of the Workshop on Brain-Based and Artificial Intelligence, 2018
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