Anthony M Harrison

This year, the Intelligent Systems section of NCARAI was invited to participate in Navy’s FleetWeek in New York. Why? Because our work is awesome. What better reason is there? Actually, a large part of the reason was to show off Octavia. She is quite photogenic, after all.For six days we ran non-stop demos for the general public, VIPs, and the press. The final count was around sixty thousand people total, with peek flows of around two thousand people an hour. It was grueling for us and Octavia.We were actually able to collect quite a bit of useful data. For one, it was interesting to see the public’s reaction and interest. Working with the robots daily, we have a very muted perspective on them. We also got some good information on extended runtimes. We frankly never ran any of the robots that long without any breaks.Impressive over all.We’ve got a bunch of photos available. Plus, we got some really good radio and video converge from NPR’s Science Friday.But I’ll tell you, I’m glad to be back at work. PR is far too tiring for this researcher.

Harrison, A.M., Fransen, B.R., Bugajska, M.D, & Trafton, J.G., (2009) Robotic secrets revealed, episode 001. Twenty-first International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Pasadena CA. “Most Informative Video” winner.

Harrison, A.M. (2009) Acting outside the box: Lessons learned when embodiment is the only option. Presented at ACT-R workshop at the 31st annual conference of the cognitive science society. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Harrison, A. M., & Schunn, C. D. (2004). The transfer of logically general scientific reasoning skills. Cognitive Science Conference, 2004. [PDF]

Schunn, C. D., & Harrison, A. M. (2003). Segmented Spaces: Coordinated Perception of Space in ACT-R/S Psychology of Space Symposium. International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, 2003.

Harrison, A. M. & Schunn, C. D. (2003). ACT-R/S: Coordinating spatial representations. 10th Annual ACT-R Workshop.