Interaction Research Lab
Designing interactions with exploratory, frontier methods and extracting insights about interaction using cutting-edge computational methods.
The Interaction Research Lab explores the intersection of human behavior, technology, and design to create more intuitive, accessible, and meaningful interactions at all scales, from face-to-face encounters to city-scale phenomena.
Located on Roosevelt Island in New York City at Cornell Tech, the graduate campus of Cornell University, our lab benefits from a vibrant ecosystem of technology innovation and interdisciplinary research.
Projects
Understanding the Challenges of Maker Entrepreneurship
2025
(Social) Trouble on the Road: Understanding and Addressing Social Discomfort in Shared Car Trips
2024
Privacy of Groups in Dense Street Imagery
2024
The Robotability Score
2024
The Bystander Affect Detection (BAD) Dataset for Failure Detection in HRI
2023
Disparities in police deployments with dashcam data
2022
XR-OOM: MiXed Reality Driving Simulation With Real Cars
2022
Research Team
Wendy Ju
Lab Director
Alexandra Bremers
PhD Candidate
Frank Bu
PhD Candidate
Matt Franchi
PhD Candidate
Ilan Mandel
PhD Candidate
Maria Teresa Parreira
PhD Candidate
Hauke Sandhaus
PhD Candidate
Daniel Enriquez
PhD Student
Albert Han
PhD Student
Stacey Li
PhD Student
Chishang (Mario) Yang
PhD Student
Kenshikimyo (Kyon) Terao
Visiting Researcher
Recent Publications
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Co-Designing with Transformers: Unpacking the Complex Role of GenAI in Interactive System Design Education (2025)
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Jul 2025
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Privacy of Groups in Dense Street Imagery (2025)
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
Jun 2025
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Making Sense of Robots in Public Spaces: A Study of Trash Barrel Robots (2025)
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction
Jun 2025
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In the News
The Truth About Burning Waymos
Cornell Tech Excels at CHI 2025 with 16 Papers and Faculty Honor
‘Robotability score’ ranks NYC streets for future robot deployment | Cornell Chronicle
Think N.Y.C.’s Roads Are Crowded? Good Luck on the Sidewalks.
Virtual and mixed realities converge in new driving simulator
Videos
![Thumbnail for [CHI '25] The Robotability Score: TrashBot in NYC](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/o52MZ1AHyjA/hqdefault.jpg)
[CHI '25] The Robotability Score: TrashBot in NYC
ReRun: Enabling Multi-Perspective Analysis of Driving Interaction in VR
XR-OOM: MiXed Reality driving simulation with real cars for research and design
Portobello: Extending driving simulation from the lab to the road
Collaborators
