Andy Elliot Ricci
Hello! My name is Andy (they/them), and I am an Assistant Professor of Digital and Computational Studies (DCS) at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.
I work with undergraduate researchers in my lab: Bits & Bots & Bolts at Bates. My research explores how people interact with and through technology, focusing on identity and the body.
I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Cornell University, advised by Malte Jung.
I first learned about computer science and robotics as an undergraduate at Union College in Schenectady, New York.
Papers
Claire Liang*, Andy Elliot Ricci*, Hadas Kress-Gazit, and Malte F. Jung. 2023. “I Can’t Help Myself! "Asking for Help" through an Elicitation Study in the Wild.” In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).
Andy Elliot Ricci. "Expectation vs. Reality: Perceptions of Social Robots." In RO-MAN Workshop: Robots for Humans: Empowerment Through Co-Creative and Social Robots!. August 2025.
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