Dr Colleen E. van Lent




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C. E. van Lent, "Results of EEE Fall 2004 Research : Using Robot Platforms to Enhance Concept Learning in Introductory CS Courses," internal report, May 2004.

C. E. van Lent, "Using Robot Platforms to Enhance Concept Learning in Introductory CS Courses". AAAI Spring Symposium on Robotics in Education, Stanford, CA March 2004.

M. E. Pollack, Laura Brown, Dirk Colbry, C. E. McCarthy, Cheryl Orosz, Bart Peintner, Sailesh Ramakrishnan, and Ioannis Tsamardinos, "Autominder: An Intelligent Cognitive Orthotic System for People with Memory Impairment", Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 44:273-282, 2003.

C. E. McCarthy, A Plan-Based Cognitive Orthotic for Reminding, PhD Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, July 2001.

M. E. Pollack, S. Engberg, J. T. Matthews, S. Thrun, L. Brown, D. Colbry, C. Orosz, B. Peintner, S. Ramakrishnan, J. Dunbar-Jacob, C. McCarthy, M. Montemerlo, J. Pineau, and N. Roy, Pearl: A Mobile Robotic Assistant for the Elderly, AAAI Workshop on Automation as Eldercare, Aug., 2002.

C. E. McCarthy and M. E. Pollack, A Plan-Based Personal Cognitive Orthotic for the Elderly, 6th International Conference on AI Planning & Scheduling (AIPS-02), Toulouse, France, April 2002.

M. E. Pollack, C. E. McCarthy, Ioannis Tsamardinos, and Sailesh Ramakrishnan, "Execution-Time Plan Management for a Cognitive Orthotic System," in M. Beetz and J Hertzberg, eds., Plan-based Control of Robotic Agents, Spring 2002.

M. E. Pollack, C. E. McCarthy, Ioannis Tsamardinos, Sailesh Ramakrishnan, Laura Brown, Steve Carrion, Dirk Colbry, Cheryl Orosz, and Bart Peintner, Autominder: A Planning, Monitoring, and Reminding Assistive Agent, 7th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-7), 2002.

I. Tsamardinos, M. E. Pollack, and C. E. McCarthy, "Efficient Techniques for the Disjunctive Temporal Problem," Technical Report ISP001-01.

C. E. McCarthy and M. E. Pollack, "Towards Focused Plan Monitoring: A Technique and an an Application to Mobile Robots," Autonomous Robots, 9:71-81, 2000.

M. E. Pollack and C. E. McCarthy, "Towards Focused Plan Monitoring: A Technique and an an Application to Mobile Robots," IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA), November 1999.