Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.

This is Labububot — one of the rarest monsters on Earth. Twelve Labubu heads are reconstituted into a single spherical form: a Franken…

We propose an approach for aligning an LLM- based dialogue agent for long-term social dialogue, where there is only a single global score g…

AI for Wellbeing is a 30-hour curriculum for middle school students exploring conversational AI and design justice through hands-on activit…

S.P.A.R.K.I. (Students' Personal Assistant for Reinforcing Knowledge and Innovation) is a GPT-powered chatbot that scaffolds children's wo…

Today’s artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are changing how many people play, work, learn, and govern themselves. Due to this rapid …

With the advent of real-time photorealism (RTPR), virtual environments are now able to achieve higher degrees of engagement than ever befor…

Depending on the operational environment of an autonomous system, a great deal of perceptual uncertainty may be introduced to an object det…

Navigation for autonomous UAVS (unmanned aerial vehicles) is a complex problem and physical field testing of associated tasks introduces a …

Many tasks are not easily defined and/or too complex for supervised machine learning approaches. For these reasons, a technique known as&nb…

We developed an automatic code analysis tool, LevelUp, to support educators and learners and built it into a block-based programming platfo…

By exploring intersectionality as a concept and as a practice, students use data storytelling to understand their lives and experiences.&nb…

#ZoomADay was a year long project exploring the creation and use of synthetic characters and deep fakes for use in online telepresence and …

Children’s oral language skills in preschool can predict their academic success later in life. Helping children improve their language and …

The project is no longer active, and has been rolled over into MIT RAISE and Day of AI's free curriculum for ages 5-7 and 8-10.This Primary…

We live in a world of personified conversational assistants (agents). We interact with these agents in our daily lives such as smart speake…

How can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?

Machines powered by artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic, and …

A significant number of college students suffer from mental health issues that impact their physical, social, and occupa…

Empathy is a core human skill. From early stages of our lives, being able to understand and behave with empathy is fundamental to our socia…

Can we enable social connectivity between astronauts and people on Earth through an embodied agent?Astronauts actively communicate with the…

A social robot modifies its behavior to change what you think about it!

Machine learning model outperforms human judgementOur computational trust model is capable of predicting—above human accuracy—the degree of…

Emotionally supportive robots improve overall team functioning!

Emotion recognition modeled as a goal-directed process!

Unconventional mixing of research fields introduces a new method to study human behavior using social robots.

Creating long-term interpersonal interaction and shared experiences with social robots Many of our current projects explore the use of…

The Huggable is a new type of robotic companion for health care, education, and social communication applications. The Huggable is much mor…

Prior research with preschool children has established that book reading, especially when children are encouraged to actively process the s…

When learning from human partners, infants and young children will pay attention to nonverbal signals, such as gaze and bodily orientation,…

The Social Robot Toolkit aims to provide a platform for children to learn through playful interaction. The social robot (Soro) toolkit allo…

We developed a smartphone application that detects users’ affect and provides personalized positive psychology interventions in order to en…

Can robots learn to be social? Can they do that in a structured way? This project uses the DragonBot platform and state-of-the-art artifici…

One of the most fundamental and important characteristics of children is their curiosity. Can an interaction with a robot elicit, guide, an…

The language and literacy skills of young children entering school are highly predictive of their long-term academic success. Children from…

To serve us well, robots and other agents must understand our needs and how to fulfill them. To that end, our research develops robots that…

Our mission is to develop the computational techniques that will enable the design, implementation, and evaluation of "relational" robots, …

Young children learn language not through listening alone, but through active communication with a social actor. Cultural immersion and con…