Theses
  1. DePalma, N. (2017). Bidirectional gaze guiding and indexing in human-robot interaction through a situated robotic architecture [PhD thesis]. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  2. DePalma, N. (2010). Task Transparency in Learning by Demonstration: Gaze, Pointing, and Dialog [PhD thesis]. Georgia Institute of Technology.
Journal Papers
  1. Williams, T., Matuszek, C., Mead, R., & DePalma, N. (2024). Scarecrows in Oz: The Use of Large Language Models in HRI (Forthcoming). Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, 13(1).
  2. Suguitan, M., DePalma, N., Hoffman, G., & Hodgins, J. (2024). Face2Gesture: Translating Facial Expressions Into Robot Movements Through Shared Latent Space Neural Networks (Forthcoming). Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, 13(1).
  3. Breazeal, C., DePalma, N., Orkin, J., Chernova, S., & Jung, M. (2013). Crowdsourcing human-robot interaction: New methods and system evaluation in a public environment. Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, 2(1), 82–111.
  4. Cakmak, M., DePalma, N., Arriaga, R. I., & Thomaz, A. L. (2010). Exploiting social partners in robot learning. Autonomous Robots, 29(3-4), 309–329.
Conference Papers
  1. DePalma, N., & Breazeal, C. (2016). Towards learning through robotic interaction alone: the joint guided search task. The Proceedings of the Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behavior (AISB).
  2. Jung, M. F., Lee, J. J., DePalma, N., Adalgeirsson, S. O., Hinds, P. J., & Breazeal, C. (2013). Engaging robots: easing complex human-robot teamwork using backchanneling. The Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW).
  3. Chernova, S., DePalma, N., Morant, E., & Breazeal, C. (2011). Crowdsourcing human-robot interaction: application from virtual to physical worlds. The Proceedings of the Conference on RObot and HuMAN Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).
  4. Cakmak, M., DePalma, N., Thomaz, A. L., & Arriaga, R. (2009). Effects of social exploration mechanisms on robot learning. The Proceedings of the Conference on RObot and HuMAN Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).
  5. Cakmak, M., DePalma, N., Arriaga, R., & Thomaz, A. L. (2009). Computational benefits of social learning mechanisms: Stimulus enhancement and emulation. The Proceedings of the International Conference on Developmental Learning (ICDL). Best Student Paper
Workshop Papers
  1. Hart, J. W., Freedman, R. G., DePalma, N., Iocchi, L., Leonetti, M., Senft, E., Topp, E. A., & Mead, R. (2019). Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction (AI-HRI): Service Robots in Human Environments. The Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium Series: Service Robots in Human Environments.
  2. Bullard, K., DePalma, N., Freedman, R., Hayes, B., Iocchi, L., Lohan, K., Mead, R., Senft, E., & Williams, T. (2018). The Proceedings of the AI-HRI Symposium at AAAI-FSS 2018. The Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium Series: Interactive Learning in Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction.
  3. Rakova, B., & DePalma, N. (2018). Minority report detection in refugee-authored community-driven journalism using RBMs. The Proceedings of the NeurIPS Workshop on AI for Social Good.
  4. DePalma, N., & Breazeal, C. (2016). Nimbus: a Hybrid Cloud-Crowd Realtime Architecture for Visual Learning in Interactive Domains. The Proceedings of the HRI Workshop on Cognitive Architectures for Human-Robot Interaction.
  5. DePalma, N. (2014). "Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?", Artificial Intelligence and the Interactionist Stance. The AAAI Fall Symposium Series.
  6. DePalma, N., Chernova, S., & Breazeal, C. (2011). Leveraging online virtual agents to crowdsource human-robot interaction. The Proceedings of CHI Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Human Computation.
  7. Jung, M. F., DePalma, N., Chernova, S., Hinds, P. J., & Breazeal, C. (2012). Human-Robot Collaboration: Bids and Bytes. The Proceedings of the HRI Workshop on Human-Agent-Robot Teamwork.