Heather Pon-Barry

Associate Professor, Mount Holyoke College

Joined

July 2019

Names

Heather Pon-Barry

Emails

****@mtholyoke.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Associate Professor

Mount Holyoke College (mtholyoke.edu)

2014 – Present

Assistant Professor

Arizona State University (asu.edu)

2013 – 2014

PhD student

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University (seas.harvard.edu)

2006 – 2012

Undergrad student

Stanford University (stanford.edu)

1999 – 2004

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Stuart Shieber

2006 – 2012

Expertise

dialogue

human-robot interaction

Present

speech

prosody

Present

Publications

Spoken language interaction with robots: Recommendations for future research
Matthew Marge, Carol Y. Espy-Wilson, Nigel G. Ward, Abeer Alwan, Yoav Artzi, Mohit Bansal, Gilmer L. Blankenship, Joyce Chai, Hal Daumé III, Debadeepta Dey, Mary P. Harper, Thomas Howard, Casey Kennington, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová, Dinesh Manocha, Cynthia Matuszek, Ross Mead, Raymond Mooney, Roger K. Moore, Mari Ostendorf et al. (8 additional authors not shown)
- 2022 (modified: 05 Nov 2021)
- Comput. Speech Lang. 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Effects of adapting to user pitch on rapport perception, behavior, and state with a social robotic learning companion
Nichola Lubold, Erin Walker, Heather Pon-Barry
- 2021 (modified: 15 Dec 2021)
- User Model. User Adapt. Interact. 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Teaching TAs To Teach: Strategies for TA Training
Michael Ball, Justin Hsia, Heather Pon-Barry, Andrew DeOrio, Adam Blank
- 2020 (modified: 15 Dec 2021)
- SIGCSE 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Comfort with Robots Influences Rapport with a Social, Entraining Teachable Robot
Nichola Lubold, Erin Walker, Heather Pon-Barry, Amy Ogan
- 2019 (modified: 15 Dec 2021)
- AIED (1) 2019
- Readers: Everyone
A Flexible Curriculum for Promoting Inclusion through Peer Mentorship
Heather Pon-Barry, Audrey St. John, Becky Wai-Ling Packard, Barbara Rotundo
- 2019 (modified: 15 Dec 2021)
- SIGCSE 2019
- Readers: Everyone
Using Iterative Design to Create Efficacy-Building Social Experiences with a Teachable Robot
Nichola Lubold, Erin Walker, Heather Pon-Barry, Yuliana Flores, Amy Ogan
- 2018 (modified: 15 Dec 2021)
- ICLS 2018
- Readers: Everyone
Automated Pitch Convergence Improves Learning in a Social, Teachable Robot for Middle School Mathematics
Nichola Lubold, Erin Walker, Heather Pon-Barry, Amy Ogan
- 2018 (modified: 15 Dec 2021)
- AIED (1) 2018
- Readers: Everyone
Dyadic Stance in Natural Language Communication with a Teachable Robot
Tricia Chaffey, Hyeji Kim, Emilia Nobrega, Nichola Lubold, Heather Pon-Barry
- 2018 (modified: 15 Dec 2021)
- HRI (Companion) 2018
- Readers: Everyone
Turn-Taking Strategies for Human-Robot Peer-Learning Dialogue
Ranjini Das, Heather Pon-Barry
- 2018 (modified: 15 Dec 2021)
- SIGDIAL Conference 2018
- Readers: Everyone
Scaling Introductory Courses Using Undergraduate Teaching Assistants
Jeffrey Forbes, David J. Malan, Heather Pon-Barry, Stuart Reges, Mehran Sahami
- 2017 (modified: 15 Dec 2021)
- SIGCSE 2017
- Readers: Everyone

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