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Journal Articles

M. Begum, R. W. Serna, and H. Yanco, Are robots ready to deliver autism interventions? A comprehensive review, Journal of Social Robotics (accepted with minor revision, August 2015)

 

M. Begum, R. Huq, R. Wang, and A. Mihailidis, “Assisting Older Adults with Dementia: The Challenges in the Human-Robot Interaction Design for an Assistive Robot”, Gerontechnology, 13 (4), 405-419, 2015

F. Rudzicz, R. Wang, M. Begum, and A. Mihailidis, "Speech interaction with personal assistive robots supportingaging-at-home for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease", ACM Transaction on Accessible Computing, 7 (2) : 6, 2015

 

M. Begum and F. Karray, “Robotic visual attention: A survey”, IEEE Transaction on Autonomous Mental Development, 3 (1): 92-105, 2011

 

M. Begum, F. Karray, G. K. I. Mann, and R. G. Gosine, “A probabilistic model of overt visual attention for cognitive robots”, IEEE Transactions on System, Man, and Cybernetics B (SMC), 40 (5): 1305-1318, 2010

 

M. Begum, G. K. I. Mann, and R. G. Gosine, “Integrated fuzzy logic and genetic algorithmic approach for simultaneous localization and mapping of mobile robots ”, Journal of Applied Soft Computing, 8 (1): 150–165, 2008

 

M. Begum, G. K. I. Mann, and R. G. Gosine, “An evolutionary SLAM algorithm for mobile robots”, Advanced Robotics, 21 (9): 1031–1050, 2007

Book Chapter

M. Begum and F. Karray, “Computational intelligence techniques in bio-inspired robotics”, Computational Intelligence in Autonomous Robotic Systems, pp. 1-29, Springer 2009

Conference Papers

M. Begum, R. Serna, D. Kontak, J. Allspaw, J. Kuczynski, J. Suarez, and H. Yanco, Measuring the efficacy of robots in ASD therapy: How informative are standard HRI metrics?, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Portland, 2015

 

M. Begum, R. Wang, R. Huq, and A. Mihailidis, “Performance of Daily Activities by Older Adults with Dementia: The Role of an Assistive Robot”, IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, Seattle, June 2013

 

C. Chao, J. Lee, M. Begum, and A. Thomaz, “Simon plays Simon says: The timing of turn-taking in an imitation game”, IEEE International symposium on robot and human interactive communication (IEEE RO-MAN), pp. 235-240, 2011  

 

M. Begum and F. Karray, “Integrating visual exploration and visual search for robotic visual attention: The role of human-robot interaction," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 3822- 3827, 2011 [nominated for the Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Award]

 

M. Begum, F. Karray, G. K. I. Mann, and R. G. Gosine, “A Probabilistic Approach for Attention-Based Multi-Modal Human-Robot Interaction”, IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN), pp. 200-205, 2009

 

M. Begum, F. Karray, G. K. I. Mann, and R. G. Gosine, “Re-mapping of Visual Saliency in Overt Attention: A Particle Filter Approach for Robotic Systems”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, pp. 425-430, 2009

 

M. Begum, G. K. Mann, R. Gosine, and F. Karray, “Object- and space-based visual attention: An Integrated Framework for Autonomous Robots”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 301-306, 2008

 

M. Begum, G. K. I. Mann, and R. G. Gosine, “A biologically inspired Bayesian model of visual attention for humanoid robots ”, Proceedings of IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pp. 587-592, 2006

 

R. Huq, M. Begum, G. K. I. Mann, and R. G. Gosine, “Biased competitive model of humanoid visual attention using fuzzy discrete event system ”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, pp. 1559-1564, 2006

 

M. Begum, G. K. I. Mann, and R. G. Gosine, “An evolutionary algorithm for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) of mobile robots ”, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 4066-4071, 2006

 

M. Begum, G. K. I. Mann, and R. G. Gosine, “A fuzzy-evolutionary algorithm for simultaneous localization and mapping of mobile robots”, Proceedings of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation , pp. 1975-1982, 2006

 

M. Begum, G. K. I. Mann, and R. G. Gosine, “Concurrent mapping and localization for mobile robot using soft computing techniques”, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2266-2271, 2005

 

M. Begum, N. Nahar, K. Fatimah, and M. K. Hasan, “An efficient wavelet-VQ method for image coding”, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. II-428 - II-431 vol.2, 2003.

 

M. Begum, N. Nahar, K. Fatimah, and M. K. Hasan, “A new initialization technique for LBG algorithm”, Proceedings of International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, pp. 164-167, 2002.

Refereed Workshops 

F. Rudzicz, R. Wang, M. Begum and A. Mihailidis, "Speech recognition in Alzheimer's disease with personal assistive robots", 5th annual workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT) at ACL 2014

 

M. Begum, H. Yanco, R. Serna, D. Kontak, Robots in clinical settings for therapy of individuals with autism: Are we there yet?, IEEE IROS Workshop on Rehabilitation and Assistive Robotics (Organizers: B. Argall and S. Srinivasa ), 2014

Refereed Abstracts 

M. Begum, G. K. I. Mann, and R. G. Gosine, “Dynamically constructed adaptive resonance Thoery: as the mind of a developing robot”, IEEE Annual Newfoundland Electrical and Computer Engineering Conference, 2006.

 

M. Begum, G. K. I. Mann, and R. G. Gosine, “A spatio-temporal approach for tracking of non-rigid motion in video sequence”, IEEE Annual Newfoundland Electrical and Computer Engineering Conference, 2005

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