Papers
Weatherwax, K., Dooley, D., Carstensdottir, E., & Takayama, L. (2024). The Case of the Curious Robot: On the Social Viability of Curious Behavior in Non-Human agents. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA).
Kathryn E. Ringland, Elin Carstensdottir, Matthew Tung, Bhavani Seetharaman, Tessa Eagle, Leya Breanna Baltaxe-Admony, and Kevin Weatherwax. 2024. Together in the Mikrokosmos: Exploring Disabled Embodied Experiences in Designed Sociotechnical Worlds. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW2, Article 435 (November 2024), 39 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3686974
Fey, J. C., Robinson, R. B., Ovali, S., Laffan, N., Weatherwax, K., Dagan, E., & Isbister, K. (2024, February). Now That's What I Call A Robot (ics Education Kit)!. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (pp. 1-14).
Ringland, K. E., Bhattacharya, A., Weatherwax, K., Eagle, T., & Wolf, C. T. (2022). ARMY’s magic shop: Understanding the collaborative construction of playful places in online communities. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems (pp. 1-19).
McHugh, S. R., Callanan, M. A., Weatherwax, K., Jipson, J. L., & Takayama, L. (2021). Unusual artifacts: Linking parents' STEM background and children's animacy judgments to parent–child play with robots. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 3( 4), 525– 539. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbe2.286
Nanavati, A., Mavrogiannis, C., Weatherwax, K., Takayama, L., Cakmak, M., & Srinivasa, S. (2021). Modeling Human Helpfulness with Individual and Contextual Factors for Robot Planning. In Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS).
Walker, N., Weatherwax, K., Allchin, J., Takayama, L., & Cakmak, M. (2020, March). Human Perceptions of a Curious Robot that Performs Off-Task Actions. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 529-538). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3319502.337482
Special Issues & Media
Taber, L., Baltaxe-Admony, L. B., & Weatherwax, K. (2019). What makes a live stream companion? animation, beats, and parasocial relationships. Interactions, 27(1), 52-57. DOI: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3372042
Nora Saks & Paul Vaitkus (2023). The Expanding Universe of Lofi Girl. Endless Thread Podcast, NPR.
Emily Cerf (2023). A Scholar in His Own Community: Kevin Weatherwax. UC Santa Cruz NewsCenter
Workshops & White Papers
Leya Breanna Baltaxe-Admony, Kevin Weatherwax, Sri Kurniawan, Lee Taber, Steve Whittaker. A Livestream Companion. In Live Streaming Workshop at the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Ju, W., Mandel, I., Weatherwax, K., Takayama, L., Martelaro, N., & Willett, D. (2021). Remote Observation of Field Work on the Farm. arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.03163.
David W. Vinson, Alex Kass, Accenture Labs; Leila Takayama, Kevin Weatherwax, UC Santa Cruz. (2020, April). Humans, Robots, Teaming, and the Future of Work.
Presented Poster's & Extended Abstracts
Kevin Weatherwax & Leila Takayama (UCSC) David Vinson & Alex Kass (Accenture Labs). Training for Human-Robot Teams: Apprenticeships, Communities of Practice, and… Gaming? Presented at HCIC 2019.
Kevin Weatherwax, Rebecca Covarrubias (UCSC), & Desdemona Rios (UH). The Relationship Between Student Risk Factors and Support Services on Academic Outcomes in Alternative Education. Presented at 2017 Koret Undergraduate Scholars Research Slam.
Hughes, B. P., Weatherwax, K., Moxley-Fuentes, M., Kaur, G., Davidenko, N., & Takayama, L. (2020). The influence of gaming frequency and viewing perspective on a remote robot operation task. Journal of Vision, 20(11), 1706-1706.
2022-2023 Henry and Vera Piatt Fellowship for work on LoFi media as assistive technology for neurodivergent adults and expressive communication in Human-Robot Interactions.
2016-2017 Koret Undergraduate Research Scholarship for work on moderating effects of school based interventions on academic outcomes in at-risk high-school students.