Publications

  • Cabrera, M.E., Dey, K., Krishnaswamy, K., Bhattacharjee, T., Cakmak, M. Cursor-based Robot Tele-Manipulation thruough 2D-to-SE2 Interfaces. In 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2021)

  • Cabrera, M. E., Bhattacharjee, T., Dey, K., & Cakmak, M. (2021, August). An Exploration of Accessible Remote Tele-operation for Assistive Mobile Manipulators in the Home. In 2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (pp. 1202-1209). IEEE. Link

  • Ardón, P., Cabrera, M. E., Pairet, E., Petrick, R. P., Ramamoorthy, S., Lohan, K. S., & Cakmak, M. (2021). Affordance-Aware Handovers with Human Arm Mobility Constraints. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 6(2), 3136-3143.. Link

  • Rojas-Muñoz, E., Lin, C., Sanchez-Tamayo, N., Cabrera, M. E., Andersen, D., Popescu, V., … & Douglas, T. (2020). Evaluation of an augmented reality platform for austere surgical telementoring: a randomized controlled crossover study in cricothyroidotomies. NPJ Digital Medicine, 3(1), 1-9. Link

  • Wang, X., Krishnaswamy, K., Cabrera, M. E., & Cakmak, M. (2020, March). Robotic Limb Repositioning with Supervised Autonomy. In Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 511-513). Link

  • Bhattacharjee, T., Gordon, E. K., Scalise, R., Cabrera, M. E., Caspi, A., Cakmak, M., & Srinivasa, S. S. (2020, March). Is More Autonomy Always Better? Exploring Preferences of Users with Mobility Impairments in Robot-assisted Feeding. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 181-190). Link

  • Lin, C., Rojas-Muñoz, E., Cabrera, M. E., Sanchez-Tamayo, N., Andersen, D., Popescu, V., … & Douglas, T. (2020, March). How about the mentor? Effective Workspace Visualization in AR Telementoring. In 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR) (pp. 212-220). IEEE. Link

  • Rojas-Muñoz, E., Cabrera, M. E., Lin, C., Sánchez-Tamayo, N., Andersen, D., Popescu, V., … & Wachs, J. P. (2020). Telementoring in Leg Fasciotomies via Mixed-Reality: Clinical Evaluation of the STAR Platform. Military Medicine, 185(Supplement_1), 513-520. Link

  • Rojas-Muñoz, E., Cabrera, M. E., Lin, C., Andersen, D., Popescu, V., Anderson, K., … & Wachs, J. P. (2020). The System for Telementoring with Augmented Reality (STAR): A head-mounted display to improve surgical coaching and confidence in remote areas. Surgery. Link

  • Cabrera, M. E., Novak, K., Foti, D., Voyles, R., & Wachs, J. P. (2020). Electrophysiological indicators of gesture perception. Experimental Brain Research, 238(3), 537-550. Link

  • Bhattacharjee, T., Cabrera, M. E., Caspi, A., Cakmak, M., & Srinivasa, S. S. (2019, October). A Community-Centered Design Framework for Robot-Assisted Feeding Systems. In The 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (pp. 482-494). Link

  • Motahar, T., Farden, M. F., Sarkar, D. P., Islam, M. A., Cabrera, M. E., & Cakmak, M. (2019, October). SHEBA: A Low-Cost Assistive Robot for Older Adults in the Developing World. In 2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (pp. 1-8). IEEE. Link

  • Björling, E. A., Xu, W. M., Cabrera, M. E., & Cakmak, M. (2019, October). The Effect of Interaction and Design Participation on Teenagers’ Attitudes towards Social Robots. In 2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (pp. 1-7). IEEE. Link

  • Rojas-Muñoz, E., Cabrera, M. E., Andersen, D., Popescu, V., Marley, S., Mullis, B., … & Wachs, J. (2019). Surgical telementoring without encumbrance: a comparative study of see-through augmented reality-based approaches. Annals of surgery, 270(2), 384-389. Link

  • Lin, C., Rojas-Munoz, E., Cabrera, M. E., Sanchez-Tamayo, N., Andersen, D., Popescu, V., … & Douglas, T. (2019, March). Robust High-Level Video Stabilization for Effective AR Telementoring. In 2019 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR) (pp. 1038-1039). IEEE. Link

  • Rojas-Muñoz, E., Andersen, D., Cabrera, M. E., Popescu, V., Marley, S., Zarzaur, B., … & Wachs, J. P. (2019). Augmented reality as a medium for improved telementoring. Military medicine, 184(Supplement_1), 57-64. Link

  • Andersen, D. S., Cabrera, M. E., Rojas-Muñoz, E. J., Popescu, V. S., Gonzalez, G. T., Mullis, B., … & Wachs, J. P. (2019). Augmented Reality Future Step Visualization for Robust Surgical Telementoring. Simulation in Healthcare, 14(1), 59-66. Link

  • Lin, C., Andersen, D., Popescu, V., Rojas-Munoz, E., Cabrera, M. E., Mullis, B., … & Wachs, J. (2018, October). A first-person mentee second-person mentor AR interface for surgical telementoring. In 2018 IEEE international symposium on mixed and augmented reality adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct) (pp. 3-8). IEEE. Link

  • Cabrera, M. E., & Wachs, J. P. (2018, May). Biomechanical-Based Approach to Data Augmentation for One-Shot Gesture Recognition. In 2018 13th IEEE International Conference on  Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition (FG 2018) Xi’an, China 15 – 19 May 2018 (pp. 38-44). IEEE. Link

  • Rojas-Muñoz, E., Cabrera, M. E., Andersen, D., Popescu, V., Marley, S., Mullis, B., Zarzaur, B., & Wachs, J. (2018). Surgical Telementoring Without Encumbrance: A Comparative Study of See-through Augmented Reality-based Approaches. Annals of surgery. Link

  • Cabrera, M. E., Voyles, R. M., & Wachs, J. P. (2018, March). Coherence in One-Shot Gesture Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction. In Companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction HRI (pp. 75-76). ACM. Link

  • Cabrera, M. E., Novak, K., Foti, D., Voyles, R., & Wachs, J. P. (2017, May). What makes a gesture a gesture? Neural signatures involved in gesture recognition. In 2017 12th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition (FG 2017) Washington DC, USA 22 – 26 May 2017 (pp. 748-753). IEEE. Link

  • Cabrera, M. E., Sanchez-Tamayo, N., Voyles, R., & Wachs, J. P. (2017, May). One-Shot Gesture Recognition: One Step Towards Adaptive Learning. In 2017 12th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition (FG 2017) Washington DC, USA 22 – 26 May 2017 (pp. 784-789). IEEE. Link

  • Cabrera, M. E., & Wachs, J. P. (2017). A Human-Centered Approach to One-Shot Gesture Learning. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 4, 8. Link

  • Andersen, D., Popescu, V., Cabrera, M. E., Shanghavi, A., Mullis, B., Marley, S., Gomez, G., & Wachs, J. P. (2017). An Augmented Reality-Based Approach for Surgical Telementoring in Austere Environments. Military medicine, 182(S1), 310-315. Link

  • Andersen, D., Popescu, V., Lin, C., Cabrera, M. E., Shanghavi, A., & Wachs, J. (2016, September). A Hand-Held, Self-Contained Simulated Transparent Display. In 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR-Adjunct)  Merida, Mexico, 19 – 23 September 2016 (pp. 96-101). IEEE. Link

  • Zhou, T., Cabrera, M. E., Low, T., Sundaram, C., & Wachs, J. (2016). A comparative study for telerobotic surgery using free hand gestures. Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, 5(2), 1-28. Link

  • Andersen, D., Popescu, V., Cabrera, M. E., Shanghavi, A., Gomez, G., Marley, S., Mullis, B., & Wachs, J. P. (2016). Medical telementoring using an augmented reality transparent display. Surgery, 159(6), 1646-1653. Link

  • Cabrera, M. E., & Wachs, J. P. (2016, August). Embodied gesture learning from one-shot. In 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication RO-MAN New York, USA, 25 – 28 August 2016 (pp. 1092-1097). IEEE. Link

  • Andersen, D., Popescu, V., Cabrera, M. E., Shanghavi, A., Gómez, G., Marley, S., Mullis, B., & Wachs, J. P. (2016, April). Avoiding Focus Shifts in Surgical Telementoring Using an Augmented Reality Transparent Display. In Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 22 MMVR (Vol. 220, pp. 9-14). Link

  • Zhou, T., Cabrera, M. E., & Wachs, J. P. (2016). A Comparative Study for Touchless Telerobotic Surgery. In Computer-Assisted Musculoskeletal Surgery (pp. 235-255). Springer, Cham. Link

  • Zhou, T., Cabrera, M. E., & Wachs, J. P. (2015, January). Touchless telerobotic surgery-is it possible at all?. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Austin, USA, 26 – 31 January 2015 (pp. 4228-4230). Link

  • Andersen, D., Popescu, V., Cabrera, M. E., Shanghavi, A., Gomez, G., Marley, S., Mullis, B., & Wachs, J. (2015). Virtual annotations of the surgical field through an augmented reality transparent display. The Visual Computer, 32(11), 1481-1498. Link

  • Ruiz, E., Acuña, R., Certad, N., Terrones, A., & Cabrera, M. E. (2013, October). Development of a control platform for the mobile robot Roomba using ROS and a Kinect sensor. In Robotics Symposium and Competition (LARS/LARC), 2013 Latin American (pp. 55-60). IEEE. Link

  • Ralev, D., Cappelletto, J., Grieco, J. C., Certad, N., & Cabrera, M. E. (2013, October). Analysis of oscillators for the generation of rhythmic patterns in legged robot locomotion. In Robotics Symposium and Competition (LARS/LARC), 2013 Latin American (pp. 124-128). IEEE. Link

  • Cabrera, M. E., Bogado, J. M., Fermin, L., Acuna, R., & Ralev, D. (2012). Glove-based gesture recognition system. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines Baltimore, USA, 23 – 26 July 2012 (pp. 747-753). Link

  • Alves, R., Ruella, C., Cabrera, M. E., Fermin, L., Cappelletto, J., Diaz, M., Grieco, J., Fernandez-Lopez, G. & Armada, M. (2010). Communication System for the Underwater Platform PoseiBoT. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines Istanbul, Turkey, 9 – 11 September 2009 (pp. 358-366). Link