Vladimir Kulyukin's
Papers, Articles, Reports, and Notes

• 2009
  • Nicholson, J., Kulyukin, V., and Marston, J. (2009). Building Route-Based Maps for the Visually Impaired from Natural Language Route Descriptions. To appear in Proceedings of the 24th International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2009), Santiago, Chile, November 2009.
  • Nicholson, J., Kulyukin, V. (2009). CRISS: A Collaborative Route Information Sharing System for Visually Impaired Travelers, pp. 720-741. In M. M. Cruz-Cunha; E. F. Oliveira; A. J. Tavares; L. G. Ferreira (Editors), Handbook of Research on Social Dimensions of Semantic Technologies and Web Services (Volume II), ISBN: 978-1-60566-650-1, IGI Global, Hershey, PA, USA.
  • Nicholson, J., Kulyukin, V., and Coster, D. (2009). ShopTalk: Independent Blind Shopping Through Verbal Route Directions and Barcode Scans. The Open Rehabilitation Journal, ISSN: 1874-9437 Volume 2, 2009, DOI 10.2174/1874943700902010011.
  • Kulyukin, V., Kutiyanawala, A., and Venugopalan, R. (2009). A software Tool for Rapid Aquisition of Streetwise Geo-Referenced Maps. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference (CSUN 2009), Los Angeles, CA.
  • Nicholson, J., Kulyukin, V., and Coster, D. (2009). On Sufficiency of Verbal Instructions for Independent Blind Shopping. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference (CSUN 2009), Los Angeles, CA.
  • Nicholson, J. and Kulyukin, V. (2009). Several Qualitative Observations on Independent Blind Shopping. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference (CSUN 2009), Los Angeles, CA.

• 2008
  • Kulyukin, V., Nicholson, J., and Coster, D. (2008). ShopTalk: Toward Independent Shopping by People with Visual Impairments. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Computers and Accessiblity (ASSETS 2008), Halifax, Canada.
  • Kulyukin, V., Gharpure, C., and Coster, D. (2008). Robot-Assisted Shopping for the Visually Impaired: Proof-of-Concept Design and Feasibility Evaluation. Assistive Technology, Volume 20.2/Summer 2008, pp. 86-98. RESNA Press.
  • Kulyukin, V., Nicholson, J., and Coster, D. (2008). ShopTalk: Toward Independent Shopping by People with Visual Impairments. Technical Report USU-CSATL-1-04-08, Computer Science Assistive Technology Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Utah State University. April 15, 2008.
  • Kutiyanawala, A. and Kulyukin, V. (2008). A Cartesian Robot for RFID Signal Distribution Model Verification. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2008), Oslo, Norway, July 2007.
  • Kulyukin, V. Kutiyanawala, A., LoPresti, E., Matthews, J., and Simpson, R. (2008). Iwalker: Toward a Rollator-Mounted Wayfinding System for the Elderly. To appear in the Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on RFID (IEEE RFID). April 16-17, Las Vegas, NV, 2008.
  • Kutiyanawala, A. and Kulyukin, V. (2008). A Cartesian Robot for RFID Signal Distribution Model Verification. Technical Report USU-CSATL-1-01-08, Computer Science Assistive Technology Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Utah State University. January 23, 2008.
  • Gharpure, C. and Kulyukin, V. (2008). Robot-Assisted Shopping for the Blind: Issues in Spatial Cognition and Product Selection. International Journal of Service Robotics, March 2008, DOI 10.1007/s11370-008-0020-9.
  • Kulyukin, V., Nicholson, J., Ross, D. Marston, J., Gaunet, F. (2008). The Blind Leading The Blind: Toward Collaborative Online Route Information Management by Individuals with Visual Impairments. Proceedings of the AAAI Social Information Processing Symposium, pp. 54-59, Palo Alto, CA, March, 2008.

• 2007
  • Minghui, J. and Kulyukin, V. (2007). Connect-the-Dots in a Graph and Buffon's Needle on a Chessboard: Two Problems in Assisted Navigation. Proceedings of the 10th Joint Conference on Information Sciences and the 10th International Conference on Computer Science and Informatics (JCIS/CSI-07). Salt Lake City, UT, July 18-24, 2007, pp. 713-719.
  • Kulyukin, V. LoPresti, E., Kutiyanawala, A., Simpson, R., and Matthews, J. (2007). A Rollator-Mounted Wayfinding System for the Elderly: Proof-of-Concept Design and Preliminary Technical Evaluation. Proceedings of the 30-th Annual Conference of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA 2007), June 2007, Phoenix, Arizona.
  • Nicholson, J. and Kulyukin, V. (2007). ShopTalk: Independent Blind Shopping = Verbal Route Directions + Barcode Scans. Proceedings of the 30-th Annual Conference of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA 2007), June 2007, Phoenix, Arizona.
  • Kulyukin, V., Kutiyanawala, A., and Jiang, M. (2007). Surface-Embedded Passive RF Exteroception: Kepler, Greed, and Buffon's Needle. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2007), Hong Kong, China, July 2007.
  • Kulyukin, V. (2007). Command, Goal Disambiguation, Introspection, and Instruction in Gesture-Free Spoken Dialogue with a Robotic Office Assistant. In Aleksandar Lazinica (Ed.), Mobile Robots: Towards New Applications, pp. 171-192, Pro Literatur Verlag, Germany, 2007. ISBN 3-86611-314-5.
  • Kulyukin, V. (2007). Robot-Assisted Shopping for the Blind: Haptic and Locomotor Spaces in Supermarkets (Extended Paper Abstract). Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Multidisciplinary Collaboration for Socially Assistive Robotics Stanford University, pp. 36-38. Palo Alto, California, March 26-28, 2007.
  • Kulyukin, V. (2007). Talk the Walk: Robotic NLP vs. Human Sublanguage Acquisition (Extended Poster Abstract). Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Multidisciplinary Collaboration for Socially Assistive Robotics Stanford University, pp. 33-35. Palo Alto, California, March 26-28, 2007.
  • Matthews, J., LoPresti, E., Simpson, R., Kulyukin, V. Wang, J., and Nalitz, N. (2007). Preferences for Interface Design for a Navigation Assistant on a Wheeled Walker. Proceedings of the International Conference on Technology and Aging (ICTA 2007), June 2007, Toronto, Canada.
  • Kulyukin, V., Gharpure, C., Pentico, C. (2007). Robots as Interfaces to Haptic and Locomotor Spaces. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2007), pp. 325-331. Washington, D.C.

• 2006
  • Kutiyanawala, A., Kulyukin, V., LoPresti, E., Matthews, J., Simpson, R. (2006). A Rollator-Mounted Wayfinding System for the Elderly: A Smart World Perspective. Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Computers and Accessiblity (ASSETS 2006), pp. 245-246. Portland, Oregon.
  • Kulyukin, V., Gharpure, C., Nicholson, J., Osborne, G. (2006). Robot-Assisted Wayfinding for the Visually Impaired in Structured Indoor Environments. Autonomous Robots, 21(1), pp. 29-41. The pdf version is available here.
  • Gharpure, G., Kulyukin, V., Jiang, M., Kutiyanawala, A. (2006). Passive Radio Frequency Exteroception in Robot-Assisted Shopping for the Blind. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2006), pp. 51-60. Wuhan and Three Gorges, China.
  • Jiang, M. and Kulyukin, V. (2006). Connecting the Dots in a Graph and Buffon's Needle on a Chessboard: Two Problems in Assisted Navigation. Technical Report USU-CS-THEORY-2006-0309, Department of Computer Science, Utah State University. March 9, 2006.
  • Kulyukin, V., and Gharpure, G. (2006). A Robotic Shopping Assistant for the Blind. In Proceedings of the 29-th Annual Conference of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA 2006), June 2006, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Nicholson, J. and Kulyukin, V. (2006). On the Impact of Data Collection on the Quality of Signal Strength Signatures in Wi-Fi Indoor Localization. Proceedings of the 29-th Annual Conference of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA 2006), June 2006, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Gharpure, C., Kulyukin, V., and Nicholson, J. (2006). A Three-Sensor Model for Indoor Navigation. Proceedings of the 29-th Annual Conference of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA 2006), June 2006, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Nicholson, J. and Kulyukin, V. (2006). A Wearable Two-Sensor O&M Device for Blind College Students. Proceedings of the 29-th Annual Conference of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA 2006), June 2006, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Gharpure, C., Kulyukin, V., and Kutiyanawala, A. (2006). A Robotic Shopping Assistant for the Blind: A Pilot Study in a Supermarket. Technical Report USU-CSATL-1-01-06, Computer Science Assistive Technology Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Utah State University. January 24, 2006.
  • Kulyukin, V., Kutiyanawala, A, Jiang, M., and Gharpure, C. (2006). Surface-Embedded Passive Radio Frequency Exteroception in Robot Navigation. Technical Report USU-CSATL-2-01-06, Computer Science Assistive Technology Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Utah State University. January 24, 2006.
  • Kulyukin, V. and Gharpure, C. (2006). Ergonomics-for-One in a Robotic Shopping Cart for the Blind. Proceedings of the 2006 ACM Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2006), pp. 142-149. Salt Lake City, Utah.
  • Kulyukin, V. (2006). On Natural Language Dialogue with Assistive Robots. Proceedings of the 2006 ACM Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2006), pp. 164-171. Salt Lake City, Utah.

• 2005
  • Kulyukin, V., Gharpure, C., and Nicholson, J. (2005). RoboCart: Toward Robot-Assisted Navigation of Grocery Stores by the Visually Impaired. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2005), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  • Kulyukin, V., Banavalikar, A., and Nicholson, J. (2005). Wireless Indoor Localization with Dempster-Shafer Simple Support Functions. Technical Report USU-CSATL-1-05-05, Computer Science Assistive Technology Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Utah State University.
  • Kulyukin, V. and Gharpure, C. (2005). Topological Landmark Recognition Indoors: Extracting Symbolic Features from Laser Range Signatures. Technical Report USU-CSATL-2-05-05, Computer Science Assistive Technology Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Utah State University.
  • Kulyukin, V. and Nicholson, J. (2005). Wireless Localization Indoors with Wi-Fi Access Points. Proceedings of the 28-th Annual Conference of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA 2005), June 2005, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Kulyukin, V. (2005). On Overcoming Longitudinal and Latitudinal Drift in GPS-Based Localization Outdoors. Proceedings of the 28-th Annual Conference of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA 2005), June 2005, Atlanta, Georgia. If you are interested in more details, you can check out our technical report here.
  • Kulyukin, V. (2005). Should Rehabilitation Robots be Dialogical?. Presented at the 2005 AAAI Spring Symposium on Dialogical Robots, Palo Alto, CA.
  • Kulyukin, V. and Nicholson, J. (2005). Structural Text Mining, Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Mehdi Kosrow-Pour, ed., Volume I-V, pp. 2658-2661, Idea Publishing Group, Hershey, Pennsylvania. This chapter cannot be made available on-line because of the distribution agreement with Idea Publishing Group.

• 2004
  • Kulyukin, V. and Nicholson, J. (2004). On Overcoming Longitudinal and Latitudinal Signal Drift in GPS-Based Localization Outdoors. Technical Report USU-CS-ATL-1-12-04, Computer Science Assistive Technology Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Utah State University.
  • Kulyukin, V., Gharpure, C., Nicholson, J., Pavithran, S. (2004). RFID in Robot-Assisted Indoor Navigation for the Visually Impaired. Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2004), Sendai, Japan.
  • Kulyukin, V., Gharpure, C., Sute, P., De Graw., N., Nicholson, J. (2004). A Robotic Wayfinding System for the Visually Impaired. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI-04), San Jose, CA.
  • Kulyukin, V., Gharpure, C., De Graw, N., Nicholson, J., Pavithran, S. (2004). A Robotic Guide for the Visually Impaired in Indoor Environments. Proceedings of the 27-th Annual Conference of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA 2004), June 2004, Orlando, Florida.
  • Kulyukin, V., Sute, P., Gharpure, C., and Pavithran, S. (2004). Perception of Audio Cues in Robot-Assisted Navigation. Proceedings of the 27-th Annual Conference of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA 2004), June 2004, Orlando, Florida.
  • Kulyukin, V., Gharpure, C., and De Graw, N. (2004). Human-Robot Interaction in a Robotic Guide for the Visually Impaired . Proceedings of the AAAI 2004 Spring Symposium on Interaction between Humans and Autonomous Systems over Extended Operation, Palo Alto, CA, March 2004.
  • Kulyukin, V. (2004). Human-Robot Interaction through Gesture-Free Spoken Dialogue . Autonomous Robots, vol. 16(3), 2004.

• 2003
  • Kulyukin, V. and DeGraw, N. (2003). Integrating Language and Vision for Voice Communication with Three-Tiered Autonomous Robots. Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI 2003), Las Vegas, Nevada.
  • Kulyukin, V. (2003). System and Method for Embedded Information Retrieval in a Distributed Free-Text Application Environment, U.S. Patent No. 6,523,029 B1, Awarded Feb. 18, 2003.
  • Kulyukin, V. and Blair, M. (2003). Distributed Tracking and Guidance in Indoor Environments. Proceedings of the 26-th Annual Conference of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA 2003), June 2003, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Kulyukin, V. and Blair, M. (2003). Intelligent Voice Control of Electronic Devices. Proceedings of the 26-th Annual Conference of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA 2003), June 2003, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Bookstein, A., Kulyukin, V., Raita, T., and Nicholson, J. (2003). Adapting Measures of Clumping Strength to Assess Term-Term Similarity, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 54(7):611-620, 2003.
  • Kulyukin, V. (2003). Towards Hands-Free Human-Robot Interaction through Spoken Dialog, Proceedings of the 2003 AAAI Spring Symposium on Human Interaction with Autonomous Systems in Complex Environments, Palo Alto, CA.

• 2002
  • Kulyukin, V., and Steele, A., (2002). Instruction and Action in the Three-Tiered Robot Architecture , Proceedings of the 2002 International Symposium on Robotics and Automation (ISRA-2002). Toluco, Mexico.
  • Kulyukin, V., and Steele, A., (2002). Input Recognition in Voice Control Interfaces to Three-Tiered Autonomous Agents , Proceedings of the 2002 International Lisp Conference (ILC-2002), San Francisco.
  • Bookstein, A., Kulyukin, V., and Raita, T.(2002). Generalized Hamming Distance , Information Retrieval, 5:353-375, 2002.
  • Kulyukin, V. and Morley, N. (2002). Integrated Object Recognition in the Three-Tiered Robot Architecture , Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI 2002), Las Vegas.
  • Kulyukin, V. and Burke, R. (2002). Mining Free Text For Structure. Ch. 12 in Data Mining: Opportunities and Challenges, John Wang, ed., Idea Group Publishing, Pensylvannia.

• Prior to 2002
  • Kulyukin, V. (2001). Automated Generation of Queries for Embedded Information Retrieval, Proceedings of the IJCAI-2001 Intelligent Web Applications Workshop. Seattle, Wa.
  • Kulyukin, V. and Settle, A. (2001). Ranked Retrieval with Semantic Networks and Vector Spaces, Journal for the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 52(14): pp. 1224-1233.
  • Kulyukin, V. and Bookstein, A. (2001). Integrated Object Recognition with Extended Hamming Distance , Technical Report. School of Computer Science. DePaul University.
  • Kulyukin, V., Bookstein, A., and Raita, T. (2001). Discovering Term Occurrence Structure in Text: Variance of M_N, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) 52(6): pp. 485-486.
  • Kulyukin, V. and Zoko, T. (2000). Hamming Distance for Object Recognition by Mobile Robots, In Proceedings of CTIRS 2000 - the Research Symposium sponsoured by the DePaul University School of Computer Science, Telecommunications, and Information Systems (CTIRS 2000).
  • Ewert, C., Hinson, C., and Kulyukin, V. (2000). Categorizing WWW Pages. (zipped pdf). In Proceedings of CTIRS 2000 - the Research Symposium sponsored by the DePaul University School of Computer Science, Telecommuncations, and Information Systems.
  • Kulyukin, V. (1999). Embedded Metasearch with CORBA, In Proceedings of the 41st Conference of Lisp Users.
  • Kulyukin, V. and Settle, A. (1999). On the Equivalence of Vector Spaces and Semantic Networks under Ranked Retrieval, Technical Report, School of Computer Science, Telecommunications, and Information Systems, DePaul University.
  • Kulyukin, V. (1999). Application-Embedded Retrieval from Distributed Free-Text Collections, Proceedings of AAAI-99.
  • Kulyukin, V. (1999).Application-Embedded Retrieval from Distributed Free-Text Collections (Extended Technical Report).
    School of Computer Science, DePaul University.
  • Kulyukin, V. (1998). FAQ Finder: A Gateway to Usenet Newsgroup's Expertise. In Proceedings of the 40th Conference of Lisp Users: Lisp in the Mainstream.
  • Kulyukin, V. (1998). Question-Driven Information Retrieval Systems,. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, The University of Chicago.
  • Kulyukin, V., Hammond, K., and Burke, R. (1998) Answering Questions for an Organization Online. In Proceedings of AAAI-98. .
  • Kulyukin, V. (1998). An Interactive and Collaborative Approach to Answering Questions for an Organization. In Proceedings of the ASIS-98 Midyear Conference. .
  • Burke, R., Hammond, K., Kulyukin, V., Lytinen, S., Tomuro, T., and Schoenberg, S. (1997).Question Answering from Frequently-Asked Question Files: Experiences with the FAQ Finder System (Extended Technical Report).
    Technical Report TR-97-05, Department of Computer Science, The University of Chicago.
  • Burke, R., Hammond, K., Kulyukin, V., Lytinen, S., Tomuro, T., and Schoenberg, S. (1997) Question Answering from Frequently-Asked Question Files: Experiences with the FAQ Finder System, AI Magazine, vol. 18, no. 2.
  • Kulyukin, V., Hammond, K., and Burke, R. (1996). Automated Analysis of Structured Online Documents. . In Proceedings of the AAAI-96 Workshop on Internet-based Information Systems.