Aaron Powers
aaronpowers.com |
Arlington, MA 02474 |
Email: my name at my name dot com |
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Education
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| Masters in Human-Computer Interaction, Carnegie-Mellon University |
2003 |
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GPA: 3.9 |
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| Bachelor of Science, Carnegie-Mellon University |
2001 |
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Majors: Cognitive Science, Human-Computer Interaction
Minor: Computer Science
GPA: 3.1
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Work & Research
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| Human-Robot Interaction Engineer, iRobot Corp |
2006-present |
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Led Human-Robot Interaction research and user interface design in the Government & Industrial Robotics Division. Wrote proposals, designed conceptual interfaces, and consulted on many projects in both divisions. Worked on haptic and gestural interfaces, multi-robot controllers, and user experience observations of military users and in-home cleaning. One patent pending, and several patent continuations.
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| Senior Research Associate, Carnegie Mellon University |
2001-2006 |
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Lab Technical Director for the Project on People and Robots using Pearl the Nursebot. Researched Human-Robot Interaction, on dialogue, and humanoid robot appearance and behaviour. Developed robotics software, experiments, robot control GUIs and drivers, and a conversational interface. Managed lab technical development, personnel, & Pearl.
Project Lead for the Web Survey Toolbox, an open source web survey editor. Designed, developed, and managed a suite of user interfaces, databases, and web applications targeted to help academic researchers run web experiments more easily and efficiently, including implementing many web experiments and surveys for various projects. |
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| Founder & President, ReserveSport, LLC |
2001-2003 |
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Started a company based off an undergraduate project for making court reservations online. Did HCI, programming, business management, and market research. Due to a small market, the company has retired to open source. With three current sites, the service has been used by more than 4500 users making more than 70,000 reservations. |
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| HCI Consultant, PanGo Networks |
2001 |
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Designed, implemented, and evaluated user interfaces for PanGo’s location-based wireless software. Worked as a consultant, directing the user interface design towards a practical short-term UI while documenting HCI issues for long-term development. |
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| Other Jobs |
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Programmer, Pittsburgh Advanced Cognitive Tutor Center |
Summer 2000-Spring 2001 |
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Tetrad IV GUI |
Summer 1999 |
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Quantitative HCI Evaluation Research |
Summer-Winter 1998 |
| Game Designer & Developer, The JADE Project |
1998-2000 |
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Volunteer programmer and a project leader for JADE, a Java online game development system. Developed new content and functionality for game demos and helped manage volunteers on the net. |
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| 3D Modeller & World Designer, Building Virtual Worlds |
1999 |
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3D modeller & world designer in BVW class. One world was chosen in the top 13 of all time, “Van Gogh.” It and two others can be watched at http://www.etc.cmu.edu/projects/bvw.html |
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| Open Source Projects |
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JSP Web Survey Library |
2001-2006 |
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ReserveSport |
2001-2005 |
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Versionable Store – OX |
1999-2001 |
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The Jade Project |
1998-2000 |
| Publications |
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Powers, A., Kiesler, S., Torrey, C. & Fussell, S. Comparing a Computer Agent with a Humanoid Robot, 2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2007). [pdf]
Torrey, C., Powers, A., Fussell, S. & Kiseler, S. Exploring Adaptive Dialogue Based on a Robot's Awareness of Task Progress and Human Gaze, 2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2007), 2007. [pdf]
A. Powers & S. Kiesler. The Advisor Robot: Tracing People’s Mental Model from a Robot’s Physical Attributes, Human-Robot Interaction Conference (HRI 2006) [pdf]
C. Torrey, A. Powers, M. Marge, S. Fussell, & S. Kiesler. Effects of Adaptive Robot Dialogue on Information Exchange and Social Relations, Human-Robot Interaction Conference (HRI 2006). [pdf]
A. Powers, A.D.I. Kramer, S. Lim, J. Kuo, S-L. Lee, & S. Kiesler. Eliciting Information from People with a Gendered Humanoid Robot, RO-MAN 2005, Vanderbilt, TN, August 13-15, 2005. [pdf]
J. Goetz, S. Kiesler, & A. Powers. Matching robot appearance and behavior to tasks to improve human-robot cooperation. Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. RO-MAN 2003, Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, Millbrae, CA. Won the RO-MAN 2003 Best Paper Award. [pdf]
J. Glover, D. Holstius, M. Manojlovich, K. Montgomery, A. Powers, J. Wu, S. Kiesler, J. Matthews, & S. Thrun. A Robotically-Augmented Walker for Older Adults, Carnegie Mellon University Technical Report CMU-CS-03-170, 2003. [pdf]
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Miscellaneous
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| Community Service & Leadership |
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Alpha Phi Omega (Pledgemaster), Circle K (Vice-President, Projects Chair), RA for community service dorm, Newman Club (President), Pittsburgh Cares |
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| Skills |
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General: human-computer interaction, human-robot interaction, UI design/development, HCI/HRI research/development, conversational interfaces, small project management.
Programming Languages: Java, Perl, C++, VB, Lisp, ASP, JSP, MySQL, MS SQL (& more).
Software: Eclipse, NetBeans IDE, Photoshop, Dreamweaver (& more).
OSs: Linux & Windows System Administration, Unix, Windows, & Mac OS. |
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More in-depth information is available at http://www.aaronpowers.com |
