Publications

Listed below are the published academic papers I have been named on, in reverse-chronological order, including my thesis. Links are provided where available.


Autonomy, social agency, and the integration of human and robot environments

Jack Thomas, Richard Vaughan, Thesis, Simon Fraser University, 2019, http://summit.sfu.ca/item/19889


Right of Way, Assertiveness and Social Recognition in Human-Robot Doorway Interaction

Jack Thomas, Richard Vaughan, Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’19), November 2019


After You: Doorway Negotiation for Human-Robot and Robot-Robot Interaction

Jack Thomas, Richard Vaughan, Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’18), October 2018


After You: Social Door Navigation for Human-Robot and Robot-Robot Interaction

Jack Thomas, Richard Vaughan, Abstract in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’17), Vancouver, BC, Canada, September 2017


Robust Sensor Fusion for Finding HRI Partners in a Crowd

Shokoofeh Pourmehr, Jack Thomas, Jake Bruce, Jens Wawerla, Richard Vaughan, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’17), May 2017


What Untrained People Do When Asked “Make The Robot Come To You”

Shokoofeh Pourmehr, Jack Thomas, Richard Vaughan, Proc. 2016 ACM/IEEE Int. Conf. on Human-robot Interaction, 2016


Orbiting a Moving Target with Multi-Robot Collaborative Visual SLAM

Jacob M. Perron, Rui Huang, Jack Thomas, Lingkang Zhang, Ping Tan, Richard Vaughan, Proc. 3rd Workshop on Multi VIew Geometry in RObotics (MVIGRO) at Robotics Science and Systems (RSS’15), Rome, Italy , July 2015


An information retrieval-based approach to determining contextual opinion polarity of words

Vechtomova, Olga, Kaheer Suleman, Jack Thomas, European Conference on Information Retrieval. Springer, Cham, 2014.


Smarter Cities, Safer Travels:Intergrating Contextual Suggestion

Adriel Dean-Hall, Jack Thomas, Proceedings of the Information Access in Smart Cities Workshop (i-ASC 2014), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 13th, 2014