Nathan G. Freier (freien@rpi.edu)
Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction
Language, Literature, and Communication
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Journal Articles

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Friedman, B., Gill, B. T., Hagman, J., Severson, R. L., Freier, N. G., Feldman, E. N., Carrere, S., & Stolyar, A. (2008). A plasma display window? – The shifting baseline problem in a technologically-mediated natural world. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 28(2), 192-199. [pdf]

Friedman, B., Freier, N. G., Kahn, P. H., Jr., Lin, P., & Sodeman, R. (2008). Office window of the future? – Field-based analyses of a new use of a large display. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 66(6), 452-465. [pdf]

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Ishiguro, H., Friedman, B., Kanda, T., Freier, N. G., Severson, R. L., & Miller, J. (2007). What is a human? ? Toward psychological benchmarks in the field of human-robot interaction. Interaction Studies, 8(3), 363-390. [pdf]

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Friedman, B., Perez-Granados, D., & Freier, N. G. (2006). Robotic pets in the lives of preschool children. Interaction Studies, 7(3), 405-436. [pdf]

Waddell, P., Borning, A., Noth, M., Freier, N., Becke, M. & Ulfarsson, G. (2003). UrbanSim: A simulation system for land use and transportation. Networks and Spatial Economics, 3(1), 43-67. [pdf]

Conference Proceedings

Nelson, E. & Freier, N. G. (2008). Push-me, pull-me: Describing and designing technologies for varying degrees of reflection and invention. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2008). (pp. 129-132). Chicago, IL. [pdf]

Freier, N. G. (2008). Children attribute moral standing to a personified agent. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2008). (pp. 343-352). Florence, Italy. [pdf]

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Freier, N. G., Kanda, T., Ishiguro, H., Ruckert, J. H., Severson, R. L., & Kane, S. K. (2008). Design patterns for sociality in human-robot interaction. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2008). (pp. 97-104). Amsterdam, NL. [pdf]

Freier, N. G. (2007). Children distinguish conventional from moral violations in interactions with a personified agent. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2007). (pp. 2195-2200). San Jose, CA. [pdf] [Awarded 2nd Place in the CHI 2007 Student Research Competition.]

Gold, K., Fasel, I., Freier, N. G., & Torrey, C. (2007). Young researchers' views on the current and future state of HRI. Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2007). (pp. 357-364). ACM/IEEE. [pdf]

Freier, N. G. (2006). Towards an interactional model of children?s relationships to personified adaptive systems. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS 2006) (pp. . 9192). Vancouver, B.C, Canada. [pdf]

Silverstein, J., Nissenbaum, H., Flanagan, M., & Freier, N. G. (2006). Ethics and children?s information systems. Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T 2006). Austin, Texas. [pdf]

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Friedman, B., Alexander, I. S., Freier, N. G., & Collett, S. L. (2005). The distant gardener: What conversations in the Telegarden reveal about human-telerobotic interaction. Proceedings of the 14th Annual Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN ’05) (pp. 13-18). Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [pdf]

Friedman, B., Freier, N. G., & Kahn, P. H., Jr. (2004). Office window of the future? Two case studies of an augmented window. Extended Abstacts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2004) (pp. 1559). Vienna, Austria. [pdf]

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Freier, N. G., Friedman, B., Severson, R. L., & Feldman, E. (2004). Social and moral relationships with robotic others? Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN ’04) (pp. 545-550). Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [pdf]

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Friedman, B. Perez-Granados, D. R., & Freier, N. G. (2004). Robotic pets in the lives of preschool children. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2004) (pp. 1449-1452).  Vienna, Austria. [pdf]

Recent Workshop Papers

Zalinger, J. & Freier, N. G. (2008). To Be Continued: Technology, Mood, and Darkness. Presented at the CHI 2008 Workshop on Night and Darkness: Interaction After Dark.  Florence, Italy. [pdf]

Chapters

Friedman, B. & Freier, N. G. (2005). Value sensitive design. In Fisher, K E., Erdelez, S., & McKechnie, E. F. (Eds.). Theories of Information Behavior: A Researcher's Guide. (pp. 368-372). Medford, NJ: Information Today.

Conference Demos

Efthimiadis, E. N. & Freier, N. G. (2007). IR-Toolbox: an experiential learning tool for teaching IR. Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR '07 Conference. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [pdf]

Technical Reports

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Friedman, B., Freier, N. G., and Severson, R. (2003). Coding manual for children's interactions with AIBO, the robotic dog - The preschool study. UW CSE Technical Report 03-04-03. Seattle, WA: University of Washington, Department of Computer Science and Engineering. [pdf]

Dissertation

Freier, N. G. (2007). Children distinguish conventional from moral violations in interactions with a personified agent. Ph.D. Dissertation. The Information School, University of Washington. Seattle, WA, USA. [pdf]