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• E. Short, J. Hart, M. Vu, and B. Scassellati. No Fair!! An Interaction with a Cheating Robot. In Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2010). Osaka, Japan, March 2010. [PDF]
• C. Crick & B. Scassellati. Intention-based Robot Control in Social Games. In Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society Annual Meeting, 2009. BEST PAPER AWARD: Best Higher-Level Cognition Modeling Paper. [PDF]
• K. Gold, M. Doniec, C. Crick, & B. Scassellati. Robotic Vocabulary Building Using Extension Inference and Implicit Contrast. Artificial Intelligence Journal. Vol. 173(1), p. 145-166. 2009. [PDF]
• K. Gold & B. Scassellati. Using Probabilistic Reasoning over Time to Self-Recognize. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. Vol. 57(5), p. 384-392. 2009. [PDF]
• F. Shic & B. Scassellati. A behavioral analysis of robotic models of visual attention. International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 73(2), p. 159-177, 2007. [PDF]
• F. Shic, W. Jones, A. Klin & B. Scassellati. Swimming in the Underlying Stream: Computational Models of Gaze in a Comparative Behavioral Analysis of Autism. Cognitive Science, Vancouver, 2006. [PDF]
• G. Sun & B. Scassellati. A fast and efficient model for learning to reach. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, Vol. 2, No. 4, p.391-413, 2005. [PDF]

• B. Scassellati, H. Admoni & M. Matarić. Robots For Use in Autism Research. Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 14, to appear.
• W. A. Bainbridge, J. W. Hart, E. S. Kim & B. Scassellati. The benefits of interactions with physically present robots over video-displayed agents. International Journal of Social Robotics, Vol. 1-2. 2010. [PDF]
• C. Crick & B. Scassellati. Controlling a robot with intention derived from motion. Topics in Cognitive Science, Vol. 2, p. 114-126. January 2010. [PDF]
• K. Gold, M. Doniec, C. Crick & B. Scassellati. Robotic Vocabulary Building Using Extension Inference and Implicit Contrast. Artificial Intelligence Journal.  Vol. 173(1), p. 145-166. 2009. [PDF]
• K. Gold & B. Scassellati. Using Probabilistic Reasoning over Time to Self-Recognize.Robotics and Autonomous Systems. Vol. 57(5), p. 384-392. 2009. [PDF]
• F. Shic & B. Scassellati. Pitfalls in the modeling of developmental systems. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, Vol. 4(2), p. 435-454. 2007. [PDF]
• A. Tapus, M. Mataric, & B. Scassellati. The grand challenges in socially assistive robotics. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine. Vol. 4, No. 1. p. 35-42, March 2007. [PDF]
• F. Shic & B. Scassellati. A behavioral analysis of computational models of visual attention. International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 73(2), p. 159-177, 2007. [PDF]
• K. Gold & B. Scassellati. Learning acceptable windows of contingency. Connection Science, special issue on developmental learning, Vol. 18(2), p. 217-228, June 2006. [PDF]
• C. Crick, K. Gold, E. Kim, F. Shic, G. Sun & B. Scassellati. Social Development. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, Vol. 1(3), p. 41-47, August 2006. [PDF]
• G. Sun & B. Scassellati. A fast and efficient model for learning to reach. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, Vol. 2, No. 4, p.391-413, 2005. [PDF]
• C. Breazeal & B. Scassellati. Robots that imitate humans. Trends in Cognitive Science, vol. 6, pp. 481-487, 2002. [PDF]
• C. Breazeal, A. Edsinger, P. Fitzpatrick & B. Scassellati. Active vision for sociable robots. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, Volume 31, Number 5, p. 443-453, 2002. [PDF]
• B. Scassellati. Theory of mind for a humanoid robot. Autonomous Robots, vol. 12, p. 13-24, 2002. [PDF]
• B. Adams, C. Breazeal, R. Brooks & B. Scassellati. Humanoid robots: A new kind of tool. IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 15, No. 4, p. 25-31, July/August 2000. [PDF]
• C. Breazeal, A. Edsinger, P. Fitzpatrick, B. Scassellati & P. Varchavskaia Social constraints on animate vision, with. IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 15, No. 4, p. 32-37, July/August 2000. [PDF]
• C. Breazeal & B. Scassellati. Infant-like social interactions between a robot and a human caretaker. Accepted for publication in Adaptive Behavior in 2000, but remained unpublished when the journal re-started in 2002.  [PDF]

• Henny Admoni, Caroline Bank, Joshua Tan, Mariya Toneva and Brian Scassellati. 2011. Robot gaze does not reflexively cue human attention. In: L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2011) Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1983-1988. [PDF]
• E. Avrunin, J. Hart, A. Douglas, and B. Scassellati. Effects related to synchrony and repertoire in perceptions of robot dance. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2011). Lausanne, Switzerland, March 2011. [PDF]
• D. Leyzberg, E. Avrunin, J. Liu, and B. Scassellati. Robots that express emotion elicit better human teaching. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2011). Lausanne, Switzerland, March 2011. [PDF]
• E. Short, J. Hart, M. Vu, and B. Scassellati. No Fair!! An Interaction with a Cheating Robot. In Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2010). Osaka, Japan, March 2010. [PDF]
• F. Shic, J. Bradshaw, B. Scassellati, A. Klin, K. Chawarska. Atypical Activity Monitoring in 20-Month Old Toddlers with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. In Proceedings of the 2009 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR 2009), Chicago, IL, 2009.
• F. Shic, K. Chawarska, J. Bradshaw, B. Scassellati. Progressive Dynamic Analysis of Face Scanning in 2- and 4-year Old Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. In Proceedings of the 2009 Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD 2009), 2009.
• C. Crick & B. Scassellati. Intention-based Robot Control in Social Games. In Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society Annual Meeting, 2009. BEST PAPER AWARD: Best Higher-Level Cognition Modeling Paper. [PDF]
• E. Kim, D. Leyzberg, K. Tsui & B. Scassellati. How People Talk When Teaching a Robot.  In Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.   La Jolla, CA, March 2009.
• A. Steinfeld, O.C. Jenkins & B. Scassellati. The Oz of Wizard: Simulating the Human in Interaction Research.  In Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.   La Jolla, CA, March 2009.
• F. Shic, K. Chawarska & B. Scassellati. The Amorphous Fixation Measure Revisited: with Applications to Autism. 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2008). Washington, DC, July 2008. [PDF]
• E. Kim, K. Gold & B. Scassellati. What Prosody Tells Infants to Believe. In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2008), Monterrey, California, August 2008. [PDF]
• F. Shic, K. Chawarska, J. Bradshaw & B. Scassellati. Autism, Eye-Tracking, Entropy. In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2008), Monterrey, California, August 2008. [PDF]
• C. Crick & B. Scassellati. Inferring Narrative and Intention from Playground Games. In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2008), Monterrey, California, August 2008. [PDF]
• F. Shic, K. Chawarska, D. Lin & B. Scassellati. The Computational Modeling of Perceptual Biases of Children with ASD in Naturalistic Settings. 2008 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR), London, UK, 2008. 
• E. Kim, E. Newland, R. Paul & B. Scassellati. Robotic tools for prosodic training for children with ASD: A case study. 2008 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR), London, UK, 2008. 
• W. Bainbridge, J. Hart, E. Kim & B. Scassellati. The effect of presence on human-robot interaction. IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Munich, Germany, 2008. [PDF]
• J. Hart, B. Scassellati & S. Zucker. Epipolar geometry for humanoid robotic heads. 4th International Cognitive Vision Workshop (ICVW 2008). Santorini, Greece, 2008. [PDF]
• F. Shic, K. Chawarska & B. Scassellati. The Incomplete Fixation Measure. In Proceedings of the Eye Tracking Research & Applications Symposium (ETRA), Savannah, GA, 2008. [PDF]
• F. Shic, K. Chawarska, S. Zucker & B. Scassellati. Fractals from Fixations. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Society for Mathematical Psychology Conference. Washington, DC, 2008.
• K. Gold & B. Scassellati. A Bayesian Robot that Distinguishes "Self" from "Other". In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci2007). Nashville, Tennessee. [PDF]
• K. Gold & B. Scassellati. A robot that uses existing vocabulary to infer non-visual word meanings from observation. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2007). Vancouver, BC, Canada. August, 2007. [PDF]
• K. Gold, M. Doniec & B. Scassellati. Learning Grounded Semantics With Word Trees: Prepositions and Pronouns. In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2007), London, England, July 2007. BEST PAPER AWARD. [PDF]
• C. Crick, M. Doniec & B. Scassellati. Who is IT? Inferring Role and Intent from Agent Motion. In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2007), London, England, July 2007. [PDF]
• F. Shic, K. Chawarska, D. Lin & B. Scassellati. Measuring context: The gaze patterns of children with autism evaluated from the bottom-up. In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2007), London, England, July 2007. [PDF]
• E. Kim & B. Scassellati. Learning to refine behavior using prosodic feedback. In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2007), London, England, July 2007. [PDF]
• M. Doniec, W. L. Miranker & B. Scassellati. Emergence of Language-Specific Phoneme Classifiers in Self-Organized Maps. In Proceedings of the 2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN-07). Orlando, Florida, August 2007. [PDF]
• M. Doniec, G. Sun & B. Scassellati. Active Learning of Joint Attention. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids 2006), Genoa, Italy, 2006. [PDF]
• K. Gold & B. Scassellati. Deictic Pronoun Learning and mirror self-identification. 6th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob), Paris, 2006. [PDF]
• C. Crick & B. Scassellati. Synchronization in social tasks: Robotic drumming. 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, (RO-MAN). Reading, UK. 2006. [PDF]
• F. Shic, W. Jones, A. Klin & B. Scassellati. Swimming in the Underlying Stream: Computational Models of Gaze in a Comparative Behavioral Analysis of Autism. Cognitive Science, Vancouver, 2006. BEST PAPER AWARD: Best Applied Computational Modeling Paper. [PDF]
• K. Gold & B. Scassellati. Audio Speech Segmentation Without Language-Specific Knowledge. Cognitive Science, Vancouver, 2006. [PDF]
• F. Shic & B. Scassellati. How Not to Evaluate a Developmental System. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Vancouver, 2006. [PDF]
• M. Doniec, G. Sun & B. Scassellati. A Demonstration of the Efficiency of Developmental Learning. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Vancouver, 2006. [PDF]
• K. Gold & B. Scassellati. Grounded Pronoun Learning and Pronoun Reversal. 6th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-06), Bloomington, IN. 2006. [PDF]
• V. Gaur & B. Scassellati. A Learning System for the Perception of Animacy. 6th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-06). Bloomington, IN. 2006. [PDF]
• K. Gold & B. Scassellati. Using context and sensory data to learn first and second person pronouns. 1st Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI-06). [PDF]
• E. Wang, C. Lignos, A. Vatsal & B. Scassellati. Effects of head movement on perceptions of humanoid robot behavior. 1st Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI-06). [PDF]
• B. Scassellati. Using robots to study abnormal social development. Fifth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob). Nara, Japan. July 2005. [PDF]
• B. Scassellati. How social robots will help us to diagnose, treat, and understand autism. 12th International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR). San Francisco, CA. Oct. 2005. [PDF]
• B. Scassellati. Quantitative metrics of social response for autism diagnosis, 14th International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN). Nashville, TN. Aug. 2005. [PDF]
• G. Sun & B. Scassellati. Exploiting vestibular output during learning results in naturally curved reaching trajectories. 5th International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob). Nara, Japan. July 2005. [PDF]
• G. Sun & B. Scassellati. Reaching through learned forward models. 2004 IEEE-RAS/RSJ International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2004). Los Angeles, CA. Nov. 2004. [PDF]
• S. Turkle, O. Daste, C. Breazeal & B. Scassellati. Encounters with Kismet and Cog. 2004 IEEE-RAS/RSJ International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2004). Los Angeles, CA. Nov. 2004.
• B. Scassellati. How to use anthropomorphic robots to study social development. 14th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS). Chicago, IL. Aug. 2004.
• A. Lovett & B. Scassellati. Using a robot to reexamine looking time experiments. 4th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL). San Diego, CA. Aug. 2004. BEST PAPER AWARD.[PDF]
• P. Michel, K. Gold & B. Scassellati. Robotic self-recognition. 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Sendai, Japan. Sept. 2004. [PDF]
• A. Robinson-Mosher & B. Scassellati. Prosody recognition in male infant-directed speech. 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Sendai, Japan. Sept. 2004. [PDF]
• B. Scassellati. Investigating models of social development using a humanoid robot. 2003 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). Portland, OR. July 2003. [PDF]
• B. Scassellati. Theory of mind for a humanoid robot. 1st IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids 2000). Cambridge, MA. Sept. 2000. BEST PAPER AWARD. [PDF]
• C. Breazeal, A. Edsinger, P. Fitzpatrick, P. Varchavskaia & B. Scassellati. Social constraints on animate vision. 1st IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids 2000). Cambridge, MA. Sept. 2000. [PDF]
• C. Breazeal & B. Scassellati. How to build robots that make friends and influence people. 1999 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-99). Kyongju, Korea. Aug. 1999. [PDF]
• C. Breazeal & B. Scassellati. A context-dependent attention system for a social robot. 1999 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-99), Stockholm, Sweden. July 1999. [PDF]
• B. Scassellati. Knowing what to imitate and knowing when you succeed. Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB). Edinburgh, Scotland. June 1999. [PDF]
• R. Brooks, C. Breazeal, R. Irie, C. C. Kemp, M. Marjanovic, B. Scassellati & M. Williamson. Alternate essences of intelligence. 15th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98). Madison, WI. Aug. 1998. [PDF]
• B. Scassellati. Eye finding via face detection for a foveated, active vision system. 15th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98). Madison, WI. Aug. 1998. [PDF]
• M. Marjanovic, B. Scassellati & M. Williamson. Self-taught visually-guided pointing for a humanoid robot. 4th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB-96), Cape Cod, MA. June 1996. [PDF]
• B. Scassellati, S. Alexopoulos & M. Flickner. Retrieving images by 2D shape: a comparison of computation methods with perceptual judgments. In Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases II, SPIE Conference Proceedings, Volume 2185, San Jose, CA, pp. 2-14, 1994. [PDF]

• H. Admoni & B. Scassellati. Robot Gaze is Different From Human Gaze: Evidence that robot gaze does not cue reflexive attention. In Proceedings of the "Gaze in Human-Robot Interaction" Workshop at HRI 2012. Boston, MA. To appear.
• K. Gold & B. Scassellati. Learning about the self and others through contingency. 2005 AAAI Spring Symposium "Developmental Robotics." Stanford, CA. Mar. 2005.
• B. Scassellati. How robotics and developmental psychology complement each other. NSF/DARPA Workshop on Development and Learning. Michigan State University, Lansing, MI. June 2000. [PDF]
• B. Scassellati. Investigating models of social development using a humanoid robot. 1998 AAAI Fall Symposium "Robots and Biology: Developing Connections." Orlando, FL. Oct. 1998.
• B. Scassellati. Imitation and mechanisms of shared attention: A developmental structure for building social skills. Autonomous Agents 1998 workshop "Agents in Interaction - Acquiring Competence through Imitation". Minneapolis, MO. Aug. 1998. [PDF]
• B. Scassellati. Building behaviors developmentally: A new formalism. 1998 AAAI Spring Symposium "Integrating Robotics Research". Stanford, CA. Mar. 1998. [PDF]
• B. Scassellati. Mechanisms of shared attention for a humanoid robot. 1996 AAAI Fall Symposium "Embodied Intelligence." Cambridge, MA. Oct. 1996. [PDF]

• C. Breazeal & B. Scassellati. Challenges in building robots that imitate people. In K. Dautenhahn and C. Nehaniv, eds., Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, MIT Press, 2002. [DOC]
• B. Scassellati. Investigating models of social development using a humanoid robot. In B. Webb and T. Consi, eds., Biorobotics, MIT Press, 2001. [PDF]
• R. Brooks, C. Breazeal, M. Marjanovic, B. Scassellati & M. Williamson. The Cog Project: Building a humanoid robot. In C. Nehaniv, ed., Computation for Metaphors, Analogy and Agents, Vol. 1562 of Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, p. 52-87, 1998. [PDF]
• B. Scassellati. Imitation and mechanisms of joint attention: A developmental structure for building social skills on a humanoid robot. In C. Nehaniv, ed., Computation for Metaphors, Analogy and Agents, Vol. 1562 of Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, p. 176-195, 1998. [PDF]

• B. Scassellati. Foundations of a theory of mind for a humanoid robot. Ph.D. dissertation, MIT Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. May, 2001. [PDF]
• B. Scassellati. A binocular, foveated, active vision system. MIT AI Memo 1628, March 1998. [PDF]
• B. Scassellati. High-level perceptual contours from a variety of low-level physical features. Master's Thesis, MIT. 1995. [postscript, gzipped]