Education, Research, Press

• Parreira, M. T., Lingaraju, S. G., Ramirez‑Aristizabal, A., Bremers, A., Saha, M., Kuniavsky, M., & Ju, W. “Bad Idea, Right?” Exploring Anticipatory Human Reactions for Outcome Prediction in HRI. To appear, RO-MAN 2024.
  preprint here

• Spitale, M., Stower, R., Parreira, M. T., Yadollahi, E., Leite, I., & Gunes, H. (2024). HRI Wasn’t Built In a Day: A Call To Action For Responsible HRI Research. To appear, RO-MAN 2024.
  preprint here

• Parreira, M. T., Lingaraju, S. G., Ramirez‑Aristizabal, A., Saha, M., Kuniavsky, M., & Ju, W. (2024). A Study on Domain Generalization for Failure Detection through Human Reactions in HRI. arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.06315.

• Parreira, M. T., Lingaraju, S. G., Ramirez‑Aristizabal, A., Bremers, A., Saha, M., Kuniavsky, M., & Ju, W. (2023). Bad Idea? Exploring Anticipatory Human Reactions for Outcome Prediction [Poster]. In NERC2023: Northeast Robotics Colloquium 2023, New Haven, USA.

Poster here

• Spitale, M., Stower, R., Yadollahi, E., Parreira, M. T., Abbasi, N. I., Leite, I., & Gunes, H. (2023). A Systematic Review on Reproducibility in Child-Robot Interaction. arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.01822. https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.01822

• Parreira, M. T., Sack, M. J. & Jung, M. (2023). What predicts interpersonal affect? Preliminary analyses from retrospective evaluations. In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE RO-MAN. IEEE

Preprint here.

• Parreira, M. T., Sack, M. J., Javed, H., Jamali, N., & Jung, M. (2023). "How Did They Come Across?" Lessons Learned from Continuous Affective Ratings. ArXiv. /abs/2307.03733. https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03733

• Weisswange, T. H., Javed, H., Dietrich, M., Pham, T. V., Parreira, M. T., Sack, M., & Jamali, N. (2023). What Could a Social Mediator Robot Do? Lessons from Real-World Mediation Scenarios. ArXiv. /abs/2306.17379. https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17379

• Sack, M. J., Parreira, M. T., Fu, J., Lipman, A., Javed, H., Jamali, N., & Jung, M. (2023). CORAE: A Tool for Intuitive and Continuous Retrospective Evaluation of Interactions. ArXiv. /abs/2306.16629. https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16629

• Maria Teresa Parreira, Sarah Gillet, Katie Winkle, and Iolanda Leite. (2023, May). How Did We Miss This? A Case Study on Unintended Biases in Robot Social Behavior [Poster]. In 2023 Grad Cohort for Women workshop. Computing Research Association Widening Participation (CRA-WP), San Francisco, USA.

Poster here

• Alexandra Bremers, Maria Teresa Parreira, Wendy Ju. 2023. Understanding Bystander Facial Responses to Robot Task Failures with the BAD Dataset. In Workshop Position (HRI '23). The Imperfectly Relatable Robot: An interdisciplinary workshop on the role of failure in HRI,March 13–16, 2023, Stockholm, Sweden.

Preprint here.

• Maria Teresa Parreira, Sarah Gillet, Katie Winkle, and Iolanda Leite. 2023. How Did We Miss This? A Case Study on Unintended Biases in Robot Social Behavior. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’23 Companion), March 13–16, 2023, Stockholm, Sweden. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3568294.3580032
  
  Preprint here.

• Alexandra W. Bremers, Maria Teresa Parreira, Xu Fang, Natalie Friedman, Adolfo G. Ramirez-Aristizabal, Alexandria Pabst, Mirjana Spasojevic, Michael Kuniavsky and Wendy Ju. 2023. “The Bystander Affect Detection (BAD) Dataset for Failure Detection in HRI.” ArXiv abs/2303.04835. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2303.04835

• Alexandra W. Bremers., Alexandria Pabst, Maria Teresa Parreira, and Wendy Ju. 2023. Using Social Cues to Recognize Task Failures for HRI: A Review of Current Research and Future Directions. ArXiv, abs/2301.11972. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2301.11972

• Maria Teresa Parreira, Sarah Gillet, and Iolanda Leite. 2023. Robot Duck Debugging: Can Attentive Listening Improve Problem-Solving?. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2301.06511 

Consult here.

• Maria Teresa Parreira, Sarah Gillet, Marynel Vázquez, and Iolanda Leite. 2022. Design Implications for Effective Robot Gaze Behaviors in Multiparty Interactions. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '22). IEEE Press, 976–980. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3523760.3523918

• Youssef Mohamed, Giulia Ballardini, Maria Teresa Parreira, Séverin Lemaignan, and Iolanda Leite. 2022. Automatic Frustration Detection Using Thermal Imaging. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '22). IEEE Press, 451–460. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3523760.3523821

• Sarah Gillet, Maria Teresa Parreira, Marynel Vázquez, and Iolanda Leite. 2022. Learning Gaze Behaviors for Balancing Participation in Group Human-Robot Interactions. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '22). IEEE Press, 265–274. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3523760.3523798

• Parreira, MT, Lavrenyuk, K, Sanches, JM, Dahl, KN. A single stiffened nucleus alters cell dynamics and coherence in a monolayer. Cytoskeleton. 2021; 78: 277– 283. https://doi.org/10.1002/cm.21660

• Jan/2021 - Describing monolayer mechanoresponse from nuclear morphology and dynamics: a computational approach

MSc Dissertation, evaluated at 20/20

Supervisors: João M. Sanches (IST, Portugal), Kris Noel Dahl (CMU, USA)

• 06/2023, MIRRORLab (remote) - "How can we (should we) become better roboticists? A Case Study on Unintended Biases in Robot Social Behavior"

• 05/2023, GAIPS (Lisboa) - “How Did They Come Across?” Lessons Learned from Continuous Affective Ratings"

• 05/2023, ITI (Lisboa) - “How Did They Come Across?” Lessons Learned from Continuous Affective Ratings"

• 06/2023 - Attended RPL Summer School (Stockholm)

• International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) 2024

• 01/2023-now - PACT committee (PhDs At Cornell Tech): Co-president (1/2023-1/2024), Social Chair (1/2024-1/2025)

• 10/2023 - Organizing committee for the IS Retreat

• Cognitive Systems Research, 2023

• ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2023,2024

• Late-Breaking Reports, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2022, 2023

• International Journal of Social Robotics, 2022,2023

• DFL - Bundesliga Data Shootout  (Kaggle, 2022)

• Feature Extraction for Cell Mechanobiology analysis (Thesis work, 2020)

• EEG Pattern Mining (Course work, 2019)

• EMG for Robotic Platform Control (Course work, 2019)

• Human Protein Atlas Image Classification (Kaggle, 2018)

• Jul/2024 - Participated and intervened at HLPF's Science Day, at the UN Headquarters

• Jun/2024 - A great summary of our research on "Bad Robots" with Accenture, from an old collaborator

• Mar/2023 - Master's thesis project featured in "revista Técnica", a publication journal for Instituto Superior Técnico 

• Feb/2022 - IEEE Portugal's Outstanding MSc Thesis Award

• Nov/2021 - Honored with the Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo Award ; Ceremony here (PT) ; Other Press

• Jun/2021 - Another article about paper "A single stiffened nucleus alters cell dynamics and coherence in a monolayer"

• Jun/2021 - Article about paper "A single stiffened nucleus alters cell dynamics and coherence in a monolayer"

• Aug/2022-now

PhD Student, Information Science, Cornell University. Advisors: Profs. Malte Jung, Wendy Ju

• June/2021-July/2022

Research Engineer at Robotics,Perception and Learning Department, KTH (Stockholm, Sweden)

• April/2020-Jan/2020

Scholar for Institute for Systems and Robotics (Lisboa, Portugal), in collaboration with Dahl's Lab at Carnegie Mellon University (USA)

• Mar/2019 - Jul/2019

Internship at Institute for Systems and Robotics (Lisboa, Portugal), a machine learning approach to segmentation of MRI images in cases of MS

• Dec/2017 - Feb/2018 

Internship at Institute for Systems and Robotics (Lisboa, Portugal), development of grasping motion for the Vizzy robot

• Sep/2016 - Feb/2017

Teaching Assistant in Histology, Faculty of Medicine in University of Lisbon (Portugal)

•  2015-2020 

Integrated MSc in Biomedical Engineering, IST (Lisboa, Portugal)

 Magna cum laude (19/20) ,  Master Thesis Dissertation in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA) evaluated at 20/20 

• 2018

Exchange semester in Tsinghua University (Beijing, China)

Computer Science Department