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Casey Kennington

 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6654-8966
    20082026

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    Dr. Casey R. Kennington is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science. Focusing on machine learning and human-robot interaction, his research specialty falls with dialogue systems in terms of computational linguistics and natural language processing.  Dr. Kennington received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Universität Bielefeld in Germany, his M.S. in Cognitive Science from the Université Nancy 2 (now the Université de Lorraine) in France, and an M.S. in Computational Linguistics from the Universität des Saarlandes.

    External positions

    Research Intern, Honda Research Institute

    1 Sep 2013 → 1 Dec 2013

    Research Assistant, German Institute for Artificial Intelligence

    1 Jan 2010 → 1 Jan 2011

    Software Engineer, Missionary Training Center

    1 Jan 2006 → 1 Jan 2016

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    • Reporting Guidelines for Large Language Models in Human–Robot Interaction

      Matuszek, C., Williams, T., DePalma, N., Mead, R., Wen, R., Schneiders, E., Kennington, C. & Bezabih, A., Mar 2026, In: ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction. 15, 2, 36.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

      Open Access
      2 Scopus citations

    • Editorial: Dialogue with robots: Constructive approaches for understanding communication

      Kennington, C., Inoue, K., Gomez, R. & Ford-Dominey, P., 13 Nov 2025, In: Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 12, 1725162.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial

      Open Access

    • Prior Lessons of Incremental Dialogue and Robot Action Management for the Age of Language Models

      Kennington, C., Lison, P. & Schlangen, D., 15 Dec 2025, In: Dialogue and Discourse. 16, 3, p. 96-130 35 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

      Open Access
      2 Scopus citations

    • Recognizing and Generating Novel Emotional Behaviors on Two Robotic Platforms

      Baral, R., Grenz, B. & Kennington, C., 2025, IROS 2025 - 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Conference Proceedings. Laugier, C., Renzaglia, A., Atanasov, N., Birchfield, S., Cielniak, G., De Mattos, L., Fiorini, L., Giguere, P., Hashimoto, K., Ibanez-Guzman, J., Kamegawa, T., Lee, J., Loianno, G., Luck, K., Maruyama, H., Martinet, P., Moradi, H., Nunes, U., Pettre, J., Pretto, A., Ranzani, T., Ronnau, A., Rossi, S., Rouse, E., Ruggiero, F., Simonin, O., Wang, D., Yang, M., Yoshida, E. & Zhao, H. (eds.). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 21503-21510 8 p. (IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Retico: A Framework for Robot/IVA-ready Spoken Dialogue

      Kennington, C. & Henry, C., 2025, HAI 2025 - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. Osawa, H., Lindgren, H., Steinfeld, A., Foster, M. E., Okada, S. & Zhu, H. (eds.). p. 575-576 2 p. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      Open Access
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