Leila Takayama
Human-robot interaction specialist
- Role
- VP of Design and Hri at Robust.AI
- Location
- Santa Cruz, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Leila Takayama
Leila Takayama is a Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) specialist in the psychology of people\'s interactions with robotic products and services. She has over a decade of professional experience in applying social science concepts and methods to the design of robotic systems. More info: Hoku Labs, she translates human-robot interaction research into actionable recommendations for the design of robotic products and services. Her clients include Fortune 100 companies, tech startups, and non-profit organizations. She has contributed to over a dozen robot products that have shipped, including drones in the air; industrial, service, and consumer robots on the ground; and uncrewed robotic systems in the ocean. The people who interact with those robots include everyone from professional robot operators to minimally informed customers to completely untrained bystanders. To do these projects, she most often collaborates with engineering, design, product, operations, and executive teams. More info: gives invited presentations about human-robot interaction at places such as the TEDx (over 1M views), Falling Walls (Berlin), and PopTech. She has published over 60 peer-reviewed conference and journal papers; patented inventions; and received early career awards from the Robotics & Automation Society, World Economic Forum, and MIT Technology Review (TR35). More info:
Experience
VP of Design and Hri
Nov 2021 — Present · San Carlos, CA, US
Leading the human-centered design of robotic solutions for warehouse logistics* Collaborating with product team on business partnership development and pilot customer engagements* Developing product and design directions, including need finding and customer development
Education
Stanford University
PhD, Communication
2003 — 2008
University of California, Berkeley
BAs, Cognitive Science & Psychology
1999 — 2003
Skills
- Design Thinking
- Qualitative Research
- Questionnaire Design
- Latex
- User-Centered Design
- Robotics
- Persona
- Contextual Inquiry
- Heuristic Evaluation
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Data Visualization
- Computer Science
- Human Computer Interaction
- Survey Design
- Experimental Design
- Cognitive Psychology
- Research Design
- User Experience Design
- User Scenarios
- Task Analysis
- Artificial Intelligence
- Interaction Design
- Mobile Devices
- Usability Testing
- User Interface
- Research
- Quantitative Research
- User Interface Design
- Paper Prototyping
- Ethnography
- Experimentation
- User Research
- User Experience
- Usability
- Experience Design
- Rapid Prototyping
- Statistics
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