Keith Evan Green, R.A, Ph.D.

Keith Evan Green, Director of the ARL, is the Jean and Douglas McLean Professor of Human Centered Design (HCD) at Cornell University and professor in Cornell's Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), Robotics@Cornell (Robotics), and the Graduate Field in Information Science (IS).

A professionally licensed architect with degrees in architecture and psychology, Green founded the field of architectural robotics—the practice of designing physical environments that act, think, and grow with their inhabitants.

Green’s book Architectural Robotics: Ecosystems of Bits, Bytes and Biology (MIT Press) established the theoretical foundation for architectural robotics. His work has been published extensively in ACM and IEEE venues, and he has trained a generation of PhD students now teaching at leading R1 universities.

At Cornell, Green served as department chair and co-led the effort to create Cornell's Department of Human Centered Design, combining two smaller design programs. Green was previously at Clemson University (as tenured full professor in Architecture and ECE) and the University of Auckland (tenured in Architecture). Early in his career, Green directed Clemson's architecture program in Barcelona; later he became founding director of Clemson's Institute for Intelligent Materials, Systems, & Environments and its associated Digital Ecologies graduate concentration.

An award-winning architect, Green received the Schiff Foundation Prize in Architecture and Design of the Art Institute of Chicago where his models and drawings are housed in the permanent collection of the Department of Architecture and Design.

Green earned a B.A. in psychology and M.S. and Ph.D. in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Green has researched and/or taught for extended periods in Barcelona, Milan, Auckland (New Zealand), and Delft (Netherlands) where he was Visiting Professor at TU Delft's ID-StudioLab.

KEY PUBLICATIONS
K. E. Green. Architectural Robotics: Ecosystems of Bits, Bytes, and Biology (MIT Press, 2016).

Ge Guo, Gilly Leshed, and Keith Evan Green. 2023. I normally wouldn't talk with strangers: Introducing a Socio-Spatial Interface for Fostering Togetherness Between Strangers. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA 20 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581325. [video]
HONORABLE MENTION BEST PAPER

Schafer. G, Green, K. E., Walker, I. D., Fullerton, S. K. In Press. Words Become Worlds: The LIT ROOM, a Literacy Support Tool at Room-Scale. In Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 511-522. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3196709.3196728. BEST PAPER. [video showing school kids in the LIT ROOM]; [time-lapsed video showing its assembly]

Raquel Cañete,* Yarden Kedar, & Keith E. Green. e-MoBo, a Low-Cost, “Robo-Mediator” Helping Therapists Teach Children How to Express Emotions: Insights from Field Testing. 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Pasadena, CA, 2024. “KAZUO TANIE” BEST PAPER AWARD

Kocher, D. Crandall, C. Yuan, C. and, Green, K. E. GROWBOT: A Robotic System to Help Children Grow PlantsInteraction Design and Children. (IDC ’20 Extended Abstracts), June 21–24, 2020, London, United Kingdom. ACM 978-1-4503-8020-1/20/06. https://doi.org/10.1145/3397617.3402038. BEST DEMO PAPER. [video].

Houayek, H, Green, K. E., Gugerty, L. Walker, I. D. and Witte, J. AWE: An Animated Work Environment for Working with Physical and Digital Tools and Artifacts. In Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing [JPUC], June 2014, Volume 18, Issue 5, pp. 1227–1241. [video clip from IEEE that was on IEEE's homepage as a featured project]

Soleimani, A., Herro, D., Green, K. E., and Walker, I. D.2019.CyberPLAYce – A Tangible, Interactive Learning Tool Fostering Children’s Computational Thinking through Storytelling. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, Elsevier, 20C, pp. 9-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2019.01.002. [video clip]

Threatt, A. L., Merino, J., Green, K. E. & Walker, I. D.  An Assistive Robotic Table for Older and Post-Stroke Adults: Results from Participatory Design and Evaluation Activities with Clinical Staff. In Proceedings of CHI 2014: the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems,Toronto, Ontario, Canada, pp. 673–682.
[30-second "Video Preview for this paper]; [ART's robotic surface - video]

Yanik, P.M., Merino, J., Threatt, A.L., Manganelli, J., Brooks, J.O., Green, K.E. and Walker, I.D. A Gesture Learning Interface for Simulated Robot Path Shaping with a Human Teacher. IEEE Transactions on Human Machine Systems, 44(1): 41-54, 2014.

Z. Hawks, C. Frazelle, K. E. Green and I. D. Walker. Motion Planning for a Continuum Mobile Lamp: Defining and Navigating the Configuration Space. 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Macau, China, 2019, pp. 2559-2566, doi: 10.1109/IROS40897.2019.8967841.

KEY PROJECTS COMPLETED
Informed by human needs, wants, curiosity, and a concern for our survival on the planet, the ARL focuses on applications that include: healthcare, creativity and learning, working life, autonomous vehicles and spacecraft, community and civic life, disaster relief, and mass urbanization. In designing for these, we dedicate ourselves to understanding populations sometimes overlooked by designers: children, adults aging in place, under-served communities, and individuals of all ages suffering from illness, disabilities, and the challenges of dislocation, disassociation, and relocation.

     
Animated Work Environment                       Assistive Robotic Table

     
LIT ROOM                                                       LIT KIT

    
home+                                                            Nonverbal Communication

    
ArchIbots Workshop at Ubicomp                  CyberPLAYce