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| Biography: | Cindy is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Mississippi State University. She is the Director of the Social, Therapeutic, and Robotic Systems (STaRS) Lab and is a Research Fellow with the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS) in the Human Factors Group.
Cindy was an NSF/CCC/CRA Computing Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow (CIFellow) in the Social Robotics Laboratory in the Computer Science Department at Yale University from 2009-2011. She was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and the recipient of the 2008 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Graduate Fellowship. She graduated in 2009 with her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of South Florida.
She graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science Summa Cum Laude from the University of South Florida. She was awarded the King O'Neal Scholar Award, the Computer Science and Engineering Outstanding Graduate Award, and the Engineering Alumni Society Outstanding Senior of the Year Award.
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| Research Interest: | Human-Robot Interaction, Robotics, Robot-Assisted Therapy, Human-Computer Interaction and Interface Design, Human-Machine Interface and Systems, Affective Computing, Search and Rescue, Military, and Law Enforcement, Therapy applications, Artificial Intelligence, Human Factors, Psychophysiology, Experimental Design, Psychology, and Applied Statistics.
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| Hobbies: | Walking, hiking, swing dancing, arts & crafts, nature, and much more.
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| Publications: | Bethel, C. L., Carruth, D., & Garrison, T. (2012). Discoveries from Integrating Robots into SWAT Team Training Exercises. Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2012). College Station, TX.
Henkel, Z., Murphy, R. R., & Bethel, C. L. (2012). Towards a Computational Method of Scaling a Robot's Behavior via Proxemics. 7th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2012). Boston, MA.
Henkel, Z., Murphy, R. R., Srinivasan, V., & Bethel, C. L. (2012). A Proxemic-Based HRI Testbed. 2012 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS’12) Workshop. Hyattsville, MD.
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| Total Publications by this Author: 3 |
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