Sydney Thompson

According to our database, Sydney Thompson authored at least 10 papers between 2019 and 2026.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of five.
• Erdős number of four.

2026

A Checklist for Deploying Robots in Public: Articulating Tacit Knowledge in the HRI Community.

Claire Liang, Franziska Babel, Hannah R. M. Pelikan, Sydney Thompson, Xiang Zhi Tan

CoRR, February, 2026

2025

The Social Context of Human-Robot Interactions.

Sydney Thompson, Kate Candon, Marynel Vázquez

CoRR, August, 2025

Templates and Graph Neural Networks for Social Robots Interacting in Small Groups of Varying Sizes.

Sarah Gillet, Sydney Thompson, Iolanda Leite, Marynel Vázquez

Proceedings of the 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2025

2024

Predicting Human Intent to Interact with a Public Robot: The People Approaching Robots Database (PAR-D).

Sydney Thompson, Alexander Lew, Yifan Li, Elizabeth Stanish, Alex Huang, Rohan Phanse, Marynel Vázquez

Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2024

Shutter: A Low-Cost and Flexible Social Robot Platform for In-the-Wild Deployments.

Sydney Thompson, Austin Narcomey, Alexander Lew, Marynel Vázquez

Proceedings of the Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2024

2023

Shutter, the Robot Photographer: Leveraging Behavior Trees for Public, In-the-Wild Human-Robot Interactions.

Alexander Lew, Sydney Thompson, Nathan Tsoi, Marynel Vázquez

CoRR, 2023

2021

Conversational Group Detection with Graph Neural Networks.

Sydney Thompson, Abhijit Gupta, Anjali W. Gupta, Austin Chen, Marynel Vázquez

Proceedings of the ICMI '21: International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2021

Challenges Deploying Robots During a Pandemic: An Effort to Fight Social Isolation Among Children.

Nathan Tsoi, Joe Connolly, Emmanuel Adéníran, Amanda Hansen, Kaitlynn Taylor Pineda, Timothy Adamson, Sydney Thompson, Rebecca Ramnauth, Marynel Vázquez, Brian Scassellati

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2021

2020

Improving Social Awareness Through DANTE: Deep Affinity Network for Clustering Conversational Interactants.

Mason Swofford, John Peruzzi, Nathan Tsoi, Sydney Thompson, Roberto Martín-Martín, Silvio Savarese, Marynel Vázquez

Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2020

2019

Combating Food Insecurity with Large Scale Aquaponics: A Case Study in Silicon Valley.

Riley Albright-Borden, Petra Nelken, Sophia Sparagana, Sydney Thompson, James Wang, Laura Doyle, Hohyun Lee, Michele T. Parker, Sarah Kate Wilson

Proceedings of the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, 2019