Andy Elliot Ricci
Hello! My name is Andy (he/they), and I am an Assistant Professor of Digital and Computational Studies (DCS) at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.
My research explores how people interact with and through technology, focusing on telepresence robots and identity expression.
I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Cornell University, advised my Malte Jung.
I first learned about computer science and robotics as an undergraduate at Union College in Schenectady, New York.
Papers
Andy Elliot Ricci. "This body doesn’t represent me: Exploring telepresence robots and self-presentation." In MobileHCI Workshop: Mobility and Utility in Robot Mediated Interaction. September 2023.
Claire Liang, Andy Elliot Ricci, Hadas Kress-Gazit, and Malte F. Jung. 2023. “Lessons From a Robot Asking for Directions In-the-wild.” In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 617–620.
Mose Sakashita, E. Andy Ricci, Jatin Arora, François Guimbretière. "RemoteCoDe: Robotic Embodiment for Enhancing Peripheral Awareness in Remote Collaboration Tasks." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 6, no. CSCW1 (2022): 1-22.
W. Lee, M. Sakashita, E. Ricci, H. Claure, F. Guimbretière and M. Jung. “Interactive Vignettes: Enabling Large-Scale Interactive HRI Research.” In 2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp. 1289-1296. IEEE, 2021.
Claire Liang*, Wil Thomason*, Andy Ricci, Soham Sankaran. "Ensuring Progress for Multiple Mobile Robots via Space Partitioning, Motion Rules, and Adaptively Centralized Conflict Resolution". In Preparation.
E. A. Ricci and Ross Knepper. "A Bounded Suboptimal Environmental Monitoring Algorithm." Presented at the 2nd Workshop on Informative Path Planning and Adaptive Sampling at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), June 2019
Industry Experience
Software Development Research Intern @ Amazon Robotics [Summer 2020]
As an intern I collaborated with a team to develop solutions for a new multi-robot system. My work focused on navigation and path planning algorithms for drive units in high congestion areas.
Teaching Experience
CS 4750: Foundations of Robotics, Head Teaching Assistant [September - November 2019]
CS 4750: Foundations of Robotics, Teaching Assistant [September - December 2018]
Service
LGBTea, Co-organizer with Griffin Berlstein and Ryan Doenges [2021 - 2023]
Robotics Graduate Student Organization (RGSO), Vice President [2021 - 2022]