Maja J. Matarić

University of Southern California — United States

Psychology · Social Sciences

84h-index30.2kcitations668works4.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Social Robot Interaction and HRI(161), Reinforcement Learning in Robotics(90), Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence(89), Robotic Path Planning Algorithms(67), Robot Manipulation and Learning(67)

Publications668 total

Behavioral differences between infants at and not at elevated risk for autism during a contingency paradigm
PLoS ONE·2026Open Access
A psychometric framework for evaluating and shaping personality traits in large language models
Nature Machine Intelligence·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Evaluating spoken language as a biomarker for automated screening of cognitive impairment
Communications Medicine·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Multimodal Behavioral Characterization of Dyadic Alliance in Support Groups
2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Examining Test-Time Adaptation for Personalized Child Speech Recognition
2025
Personalized Socially Assistive Robots With End-to-End Speech-Language Models For Well-Being Support
ArXiv.org·2025Open Access
HRIBench: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Real-Time Human Perception in Human-Robot Interaction
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
Is AI Ready to Support Speech Therapy for Children? A Systematic Review of AI-Enabled Mobile Apps for Pediatric Speech Therapy
2025Open Access
Exploring Socially Assistive Peer Mediation Robots for Teaching Conflict Resolution to Elementary School Students
Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Modeling Personalized Difficulty of Rehabilitation Exercises Using Causal Trees
2025
Modeling Personalized Difficulty of Rehabilitation Exercises Using Causal Trees
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
Promoting Cognitive Health in Elder Care with Large Language Model-Powered Socially Assistive Robots
2025· 10 citedOpen Access
Designing Robot Identity: The Role of Voice, Clothing, and Task on Robot Gender Perception
International Journal of Social Robotics·2025· 7 citedOpen Access
Soft and Compliant Contact-Rich Hair Manipulation and Care
2025· 3 cited
Contrastive Learning from Exploratory Actions: Leveraging Natural Interactions for Preference Elicitation
2025
Sleepless Nights, Sugary Days: Creating Synthetic Users with Health Conditions for Realistic Coaching Agent Interactions
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
Evaluating Spoken Language as a Biomarker for Automated Screening of Cognitive Impairment
ArXiv.org·2025Open Access
Infants Display Anticipatory Gaze During a Motor Contingency Paradigm
Sensors·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Soft and Compliant Contact-Rich Hair Manipulation and Care
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
Contrastive Learning from Exploratory Actions: Leveraging Natural Interactions for Preference Elicitation
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

David Feil-Seifer(7), Gaurav S. Sukhatme(6), Brian Gerkey(5), Adriana Tapus(3), A. Howard(3), Odest Chadwicke Jenkins(3), Andrew Howard(2), Brian Scassellati(2), Cristian Ţăpuş(2), Monica Nicolescu(2), Joshua Wainer(2), Dylan A. Shell(2), Henny Admoni(1), Jakob Fredslund(1), Richard Vaughan(1), Kasper Støy(1), Martin Nilsson(1), K.T. Simsarin(1), Juan Fasola(1), Ajo Fod(1)