Bio
David Sirkin is a Research Associate at Stanford University's Center for Design Research, where he focuses on design methodology, as well as the design of physical interactions between humans and robots, and autonomous vehicles and their interfaces. He is also a Lecturer in Electrical Engineering, where he teaches interactive device design. David frequently collaborates with, and consults for, local Silicon Valley and global technology companies including Siemens, SAP and Microsoft Research. He grew up in Florida, near the Everglades, and in Maine, near the lobsters.
Academic Appointments
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Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering
Patents
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Gina D Venolia, George G Robertson, John C Tang, David M Sirkin, Bongshin Lee. "United States Patent 8520052, 9270936 Functionality for indicating direction of attention", Microsoft Research, Aug 27, 2013
2024-25 Courses
- Design Research Theory and Methodology Seminar
ME 397 (Spr) - Making and Breaking Things
ME 108 (Aut) -
Independent Studies (3)
- Engineering Problems
ME 391 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Engineering Problems and Experimental Investigation
ME 191 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Experimental Investigation of Engineering Problems
ME 392 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Engineering Problems
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Design Research Theory and Methodology Seminar
ME 397 (Spr) - How to Redesign Everyday Things (for Beginners)
ME 106 (Aut) - Making and Breaking Things
ME 108 (Spr)
2022-23 Courses
- Design Research Theory and Methodology Seminar
ME 397 (Win, Spr)
2021-22 Courses
- Design Research Theory and Methodology Seminar
ME 397 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Design Research Theory and Methodology Seminar
All Publications
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Comfort in Automated Driving: A Literature Survey and a High-Level Integrative Framework
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACM ON INTERACTIVE MOBILE WEARABLE AND UBIQUITOUS TECHNOLOGIES-IMWUT
2024; 8 (3)
View details for DOI 10.1145/3678583
View details for Web of Science ID 001320214400003
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Make This! Introduction to Electronics Prototyping Using Arduino
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2024
View details for DOI 10.1145/3613905.3636279
View details for Web of Science ID 001227587700014
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A Last-100-Meters User Acceptance Issue: Navigating Fully Autonomous Vehicles through on-Board Navigation Systems
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
2023
View details for DOI 10.1080/10447318.2023.2263696
View details for Web of Science ID 001081846100001
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Evaluation of smartphone interactions on drivers' brain function and vehicle control in an immersive simulated environment.
Scientific reports
2021; 11 (1): 1998
Abstract
Smartphones and other modern technologies have introduced multiple new forms of distraction that color the modern driving experience. While many smartphone functions aim to improve driving by providing the driver with real-time navigation and traffic updates, others, such as texting, are not compatible with driving and are often the cause of accidents. Because both functions elicit driver attention, an outstanding question is the degree to which drivers' naturalistic interactions with navigation and texting applications differ in regard to brain and behavioral indices of distracted driving. Here, we employed functional near-infrared spectroscopy to examine the cortical activity that occurs under parametrically increasing levels of smartphone distraction during naturalistic driving. Our results highlight a significant increase in bilateral prefrontal and parietal cortical activity that occurs in response to increasingly greater levels of smartphone distraction that, in turn, predicts changes in common indices of vehicle control.
View details for DOI 10.1038/s41598-021-81208-5
View details for PubMedID 33479322
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Fake It to Make It: Exploratory Prototyping in HRI
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2021: 19-28
View details for DOI 10.1145/3434074.3446909
View details for Web of Science ID 000767970100003
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Aladdin's magic carpet: Navigation by in-air static hand gesture in autonomous vehicles
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
2020
View details for DOI 10.1080/10447318.2020.1801225
View details for Web of Science ID 000559886800001
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On-Road and Online Studies to Investigate Beliefs and Behaviors of Netherlands, US and Mexico Pedestrians Encountering Hidden-Driver Vehicles
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2020: 141–49
View details for DOI 10.1145/3319502.3374790
View details for Web of Science ID 000570011000016
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What a Driver Wants: User Preferences in Semi-Autonomous Vehicle Decision-Making
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2020: 2964-2974
Abstract
To evaluate the association of genetic risk scores (GRS) of LDLR, APOB and proprotein convertase subtilisin-kexin type 9 (PCSK9) SNP and plasma LDL concentrations and to identify lifestyle interactions with the GRS in Korean middle-aged adults.Korean genome and epidemiology study (KoGES) was conducted to determine genetic variants and lifestyle factors, including nutrient intakes, in a retrospective hospital-based city cohort conducted by the Korean Center for Disease and Control during 2004-2013.Hospitals in Korea.Adults aged 40-77 years (n 28 445) without serious diseases.Subjects with the major alleles (risk allele) of LDLR rs1433099 and rs11557092, APOB rs13306194 and PCSK9 rs11583723 had higher plasma LDL concentration by 1·20-folds than those with the minor alleles. Subjects with High-GRS (major alleles) of the four SNP had higher adjusted OR for plasma total and LDL-cholesterol and TAG concentrations by 1·24-, 1·203- and 1·167-folds, respectively, but not HDL-cholesterol, than those with Low-GRS. Western-style flour-rich dietary patterns, but not balanced Korean-style and rice-based dietary patterns, had interactions with GRS to increase plasma LDL concentrations. Daily energy intake also interacted with GRS. In the high intake of Western-style flour-rich dietary patterns, carriers with High-GRS had much higher plasma LDL concentrations than the Low-GRS. With high energy intake, carriers with High-GRS had much higher plasma LDL concentrations than those with Low-GRS.Adults with major alleles of four SNP are recommended to have low-energy intakes with a balanced Korean diet need to avoid high-energy intakes especially with Western-style flour-rich diet patterns.
View details for DOI 10.1145/3313831.3376644
View details for Web of Science ID 000696109100113
View details for PubMedID 32698935
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Half Day Workshop on Mental Models of Robots
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2020: 658-659
View details for DOI 10.1145/3371382.3374856
View details for Web of Science ID 000643728500228
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Defense Against the Dark Cars: How People Grief Autonomous Vehicles
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2020: 642
View details for DOI 10.1145/3371382.3378396
View details for Web of Science ID 000643728500218
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The Forgotten in HRI: Incidental Encounters with Robots in Public Spaces
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2020: 656-657
View details for Web of Science ID 000643728500227
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Assessing the Effects of Failure Alerts on Transitions of Control from Autonomous Driving Systems
IEEE. 2020: 1956-1963
View details for Web of Science ID 000653124200291
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Is Too Much System Caution Counterproductive? Effects of Varying Sensitivity and Automation Levels in Vehicle Collision Avoidance Systems
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2020
View details for DOI 10.1145/3313831.3376300
View details for Web of Science ID 000695432500173
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Make This! Introduction to Electronics Prototyping Using Arduino
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2020
View details for DOI 10.1145/3334480.3375052
View details for Web of Science ID 000626317800030
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Autonomous Vehicle-Pedestrian Interaction Across Cultures: Towards Designing Better External Human Machine Interfaces (eHMIs)
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2020
View details for DOI 10.1145/3334480.3382957
View details for Web of Science ID 000626317802108
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Defense Against the Dark Cars: Design Principles for Griefing of Autonomous Vehicles
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2020: 201–9
View details for DOI 10.1145/3319502.3374796
View details for Web of Science ID 000570011000022
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The Car That Cried Wolf: Driver Responses to Missing, Perfectly Performing, and Oversensitive Collision Avoidance Systems
IEEE. 2019: 1830–36
View details for Web of Science ID 000508184100243
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The Case for Implicit External Human-Machine Interfaces for Autonomous Vehicles
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2019: 295–307
View details for DOI 10.1145/3342197.3345320
View details for Web of Science ID 000587615200027
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ActiveNavigator: Toward Real-Time Knowledge Capture and Feedback in Design Workspaces
TEMPUS PUBLICATIONS. 2018: 723–33
View details for Web of Science ID 000443166100018
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Toward measurement of situation awareness in autonomous vehicles
Proceedings of the 35th ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2017
View details for DOI 10.1145/3025453.3025822
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Designing the behavior of interactive objects
Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
2016
View details for DOI 10.1145/2839462.2839502
- Monitoring driver cognitive load using near infrared spectroscopy in partially autonomous cars Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2016
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Exploring shared control in automated driving
Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction
2016
View details for DOI 10.1109/HRI.2016.7451738
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Ghost driver: A field study investigating the interaction between pedestrians and driverless vehicles
Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
2016
View details for DOI 10.1109/ROMAN.2016.7745210
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A Faust based driving simulator sound synthesis engine
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
2016
View details for DOI 10.5281/zenodo.851260
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Behavioral measurement of trust in automation: The trust fall
Proceedings of the 60th International Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
2016
View details for DOI 10.1177/1541931213601422
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Exploring transitional automation with new and old drivers
Proceedings of the 2016 SAE International World Congress
2016
View details for DOI 10.4271/2016-01-1442
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Robots need humans in the loop to improve the hopefulness of disaster survivors
Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
2015
View details for DOI 10.1109/ROMAN.2015.7333696
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A place for every tool and every tool in Its place: Performing collaborative tasks with interactive robotic drawers
Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
2015
View details for DOI 10.1109/ROMAN.2015.7333680
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Distraction becomes engagement in automated driving
Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
2015
View details for DOI 10.1177/1541931215591362
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Emergency, automation off: Unstructured transition timing for distracted drivers of automated vehicles
Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems
2015
View details for DOI 10.1109/ITSC.2015.396
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Experiences developing socially acceptable interactions for a robotic trash barrel
Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
2015
View details for DOI 10.1109/ROMAN.2015.7333693
- Understanding driver-automated vehicle interactions through Wizard-of-Oz design improvisation Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Human Factors in Driving Assessment 2015
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Mechanical ottoman: How robotic furniture offers and withdraws support
Proceedings of the 10th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
2015
View details for DOI 10.1145/2696454.2696461
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Displayed uncertainty improves driving experience and behavior: The case of range anxiety in an electric car
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2015
View details for DOI 10.1145/2702123.2702479
- Using embodied design improvisation as a design research tool Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Behavior in Design 2014
- Press play: A course in interactive device design Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education 2014
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Empathy: Interactions with emotive robotic drawers
Proceedings of the 9th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction
2014
View details for DOI 10.1145/2559636.2563720
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Where to Look and Who to Be Designing Attention and Identity for Search-and-Rescue Robots
8th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
IEEE. 2013: 119–120
View details for Web of Science ID 000320655500036
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Consistency in physical and on-screen action improves perceptions of telepresence robots
Proceedings of the 7th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
2012
View details for DOI 10.1145/2157689.2157699
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Motion and attention in a kinetic videoconferencing proxy
Proceedings of the 13th IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
2011
View details for DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-23774-4_16
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Animate Objects: How Physical Motion Encourages Public Interaction
5th International Conference on Persuasive Technology
SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN. 2010: 40–51
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- Lowering barriers to distributed design research collaboration Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Engineering Design 2009