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Brittany A. Duncan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Computer Science and Engineering
291 Schorr Center
Lincoln, NE 68588
402-472-5073
bduncan [at] unl [dot] edu
Publications

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Journal:

  • Kunde, S., Elbaum, S., & Duncan, B. "Characterizing User Responses to Failures in Aerial Autonomous Systems," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 5(2), 1587-1594. 
  • PytlikZillig, L. M., Duncan, B., Elbaum, S., & Detweiler, C. “A Drone by Any Other Name: Purposes, End-User Trustworthiness, and Framing, but Not Terminology, Affect Public Support for Drones,” IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 37(1), 80-91, 2018. 
  • Duncan, B. A., & Murphy, R. R. “Effects of Speed, Cyclicity, and Dimensionality on Distancing, Time, and Preference in Human-Aerial Vehicle Interactions,” ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), 7(3), 13, 2017. 
  • Murphy, R. R., Duncan, B. A., Collins, T., Kendrick, J., Lohman, P., Palmer, T., & Sanborn, F. “Use of a Small Unmanned Aerial System for the SR‐530 Mudslide Incident near Oso, Washington,” Journal of Field Robotics, 33(4), 476-488, 2016. 
  • Duncan, B.A. and Murphy, R.R., “Autonomous Capabilities for sUAS Conducting Radiological Response: Findings from a High Fidelity Discovery Experiment,” Journal of Field Robotics, Special Issue on Near Earth Autonomy, Online First March 2014. 
  • Murphy, R., Shell, D., Guerin, A., Duncan, B., Fine, B., Pratt, K., and Zourntos, T. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream (with flying robots),” Autonomous Robots: Online First, October 2010. 


Conference

  • Firestone, J.W., Quinones, R., & Duncan, B.A. "Learning from Users: an elicitation study and taxonomy for communicating small unmanned aerial system states through gestures," In Proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Daegu, Korea, March 2019. Best Paper Nominee 
  • Hall, L., Acharya, U., Bradley, J.. & Duncan, B.A. "Inference of User Qualities in Shared Control of CPHS: a contrast in users," IFAC-PapersOnLine 51 (34), 110-117, Miami, FL, December 2018. 
  • Beachly, E., Detweiler, C., Elbaum, S., Duncan, B., Hildebrandt, C., Twidwell, D. & Allen, C. "Fire-Aware Planning of Aerial Trajectories and Ignitions," In Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain, October 2018. Best Paper Award 
  • Duncan, B.A., Beachly, E., Bevins, A., Elbaum, S., & Detweiler, C. "Investigation of Communicative Flight Paths for Small Unmanned Aerial Systems," In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 602-609, Brisbane, Australia, May 2018. 
  • Acharya, U., Kunde, S., Hall, L., Duncan, B.A., & Bradley, J.M. "Inference of User Qualities in Shared Control" In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 588-595, Brisbane, Australia, May 2018. 
  • Beachly, E., Detweiler, C., Elbaum, S., Twidwell, D., & Duncan, B. “UAS-Rx interface for mission planning, fire tracking, fire ignition, and real-time updating,” In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, Shanghai, China, October 2017. 
  • Acharya, U., Bevins, A., & Duncan, B. A. “Investigation of human-robot comfort with a small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle compared to a ground robot,” In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on (pp. 2758-2765), September 2017. 
  • Duncan, B. A., & Murphy, R. R. “Comparison of flight paths from fixed-wing and rotorcraft small unmanned aerial systems at SR530 mudslide Washington state,” In Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015 IEEE International Conference on (pp. 3416-3421), May 2015. 
  • Duncan, B. A., & Murphy, R. R. “Safety considerations for small Unmanned Aerial Systems with distributed users,” In Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 2014 IEEE International Symposium on (pp. 1-7), October 2014. 
  • Duncan, B.A. and Murphy, R.R., “Field Study Identifying Barriers and Delays in Data-to-Decision with Small Unmanned Aerial Systems,” Proceedings of 2013 International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, Boston, MA, USA, November 2013. 
  • Duncan, B.A. and Murphy, R.R., “Comfortable Approach Distance with small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,” Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Robots and Human Interactive Communications, Gyeongju, Korea, August 2013. 
  • Duncan, B.A. and Murphy, R.R., “Creating a Preliminary Model for Comfortable Approach Distance based on Environmental Conditions and Personal Factors,” Proceedings of the 2012 Conference on Collaborative Technologies and Systems, Denver, CO, USA, May 2012. 
  • Peschel, J.M., Duncan, B.A., and Murphy, R.R., “Exploratory Results for a Mission Specialist Interface in a Micro Unmanned Aerial System,” Proceedings of the 2012 Conference on Collaborative Technologies and Systems, Denver, CO, USA, May 2012. 
  • Duncan, B.A. and Murphy, R.R., “Methods and Metrics of Autonomous Take-Off, Landing, and GPS Waypoint Navigation Experiments in Micro-UAVs,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems 2012, Philadelphia, PA, USA, June 2012. 
  • Duncan, B.A., Ulam, P.D. and Arkin, R.C. “Lek Behavior as a Model for Multi-Robot Systems”, Proc. 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics. Guilin, China, December 2009. 
  • Arkin, R.C., Wagner, A., and Duncan, B. "Responsibility and Lethality for Unmanned Systems: Ethical Pre-mission Responsibility Advisement", Proc. 2009 IEEE Workshop on Roboethics, Kobe, Japan, May 2009. 


Late-Breaking Reports:

  • Sarmiento, T. A., Duncan, B. A., & Murphy, R. R. “Preliminary analysis of reconstructions from aerial images of disaster props,” In Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 2015 IEEE International Symposium on (pp. 1-2), October 2015. 
  • Crowley, D., Murphy, R., McNamara, A., McLaughlin, T., and Duncan, B., “AR Browser for Points of Interest in Disaster Response UAV Imagery,” Proceedings of Computer Human Interaction (CHI) 2014. 
  • Henkel, Z., Suarez, J. Duncan, B., and Murphy, R.R., “Sky Writer: Sketch-Based Collaboration for UAV Pilots and Mission Specialists,” Proc. 2014 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Bielefeld, Germany, March 2014. 
  • Duncan, B.A., Murphy, R.R., Shell, D., and Hopper, H.G. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Social Proof in HRI”, Proc. 2010 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Osaka, Japan, March 2010. 
  • Murphy, R.R., Srinivasan, R., Rashidi, N., Duncan, B., Rice, A., Henkel, Z., Garza, M., Nass, C., Groom, V., Zourntos, T., Daneshvar, R., and P rasad, S. “Survivor Buddy and SciGirls: affect, outreach, and questions”, Proc. 2010 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Osaka, Japan, March 2010.