Bring Robots’ Benefits to Our Society

Reality, Autonomy, and Robot Experience (RARE) Lab

Prof. Zhao Han founded the RARE lab in August 2023 at the University of South Florida in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the College of Engineering.

Mission

Our mission is to tackle the grand challenges to bring and retain robots’ benefits to our society by designing and evaluating understandable robot interactions and capable robotic systems.

Vision

We envision an era of robots that provide superior robot experiences for humans to interact, collaborate, team up, and live with.

Research

Research focuses on interdisciplinary human-robot interaction (HRI), involving robotics, augmented reality (AR), AI, cognitive science, and psychology… See Research Overview →

Recent Publications

Toward Open-World Human-Robot Interaction: What Types of Gestures Are Used in Task-Based Open-World Referential Communication?

Toward Open-World Human-Robot Interaction: What Types of Gestures Are Used in Task-Based Open-World Referential Communication?

SemDial 2023
Evaluating Cognitive Status-Informed Referring Form Selection for Human-Robot Interactions

Evaluating Cognitive Status-Informed Referring Form Selection for Human-Robot Interactions

CogSci 2023
Inclusive HRI II: Equity and Diversity in Design, Application, Methods, and Community

Inclusive HRI II: Equity and Diversity in Design, Application, Methods, and Community

HRI 2023 Workshop Abstract
Communicating Missing Causal Information to Explain a Robot’s Past Behavior

Communicating Missing Causal Information to Explain a Robot’s Past Behavior

THRI, 2023
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