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Personal Robots group
Can we enable social connectivity between astronauts and people on Earth through an embodied agent?Astronauts actively communicate with t...
Prior research with preschool children has established that book reading, especially when children are encouraged to actively process the...
Conversational agents and intelligent toys are present in children's homes and influence their development. The introduction of these dev...
When learning from human partners, infants and young children will pay attention to nonverbal signals, such as gaze and bodily orientatio...
Children’s oral language skills in preschool can predict their academic success later in life. Helping children improve their language an...
The Social Robot Toolkit aims to provide a platform for children to learn through playful interaction. The social robot (Soro) toolkit al...
Can you feel empathy for a robot? The electric parrot project is about designing a robot that can engender empathy. For this we are const...
We developed a smartphone application that detects users’ affect and provides personalized positive psychology interventions in order to ...
SHARE is a robotic cognitive architecture focused on manipulating and understanding the phenomenon of shared attention during interaction...
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 artifi...
One of the most fundamental and important characteristics of children is their curiosity. Can an interaction with a robot elicit, guide, ...
Drivers spend a significant amount of time multi-tasking while they are behind the wheel, especially parent drivers that attend to child ...
The language and literacy skills of young children entering school are highly predictive of their long-term academic success. Children fr...
Like people, dogs and cats live among technologies that affect their lives. Yet little of this technology has been designed with pets in ...
To serve us well, robots and other agents must understand our needs and how to fulfill them. To that end, our research develops robots th...
Our mission is to develop the computational techniques that will enable the design, implementation, and evaluation of "relational" robots...
Mind-Theoretic Planning (MTP) is a technique for robots to plan in social domains. This system takes into account probability distributio...
DragonBot is a new platform built to support long-term interactions between children and robots. The robot runs entirely on an Android ce...
Imagine opening your eyes and being awake for only half an hour at a time. This is the life that robots traditionally live. This is due t...
Young children learn language not through listening alone, but through active communication with a social actor. Cultural immersion and c...
TinkRBook is a storytelling system that introduces a new concept of reading, called textual tinkerability. Textual tinkerability uses sto...
Drivers spend a significant amount of time multi-tasking while they are behind the wheel. These dangerous behaviors, particularly texting...
LightSwarm is a platform for interaction between humans and swarm robots. Swarm robots are implemented as augmented-reality agents that c...
Can a robot and magician collaborate on stage to create a believable, evocative performance? Close human-robot proximity and coordination...
We are investigating e-textiles and fiber-electronics to develop unique soft-architecture robotic components. We have been developing lar...
Two robot arms are in constant motion and hard at work. From a distance, they can be seen considering their tasks, communicating with eac...
In robotics, the emerging field of electronic textiles and fiber-electronics represents a shift in morphology from hard and rigid mechatr...
Using the Preschool of the Future environment, children can create stories that come to life in the real world. We are developing interfa...
As robots become more and more capable, we will begin to invite them into our daily lives. There have been few examples of mobile robots ...
Many new applications for robots require them to work alongside people as capable members of human-robot teams. We have developed Mars E...
The digital revolution has fundamentally changed our lives. Multimedia content-creation tools allow us to instantiate and share ideas eas...
I/O Stickers is an electronics construction kit made up of adhesive sensors and actuators. Users can place these special electronic stick...
TeleScrapbook and TelePostcard are pairs of wirelessly connected electronic scrapbooks and electronic greeting cards, respectively. These...
The Alphabots are trans-fictional(xF) mobile and modular semi-autonomous robotic symbol set characters designed to play with preschool ag...
Inspired by the Surrealists' Exquisite Corpse art game, the NeverEnding Drawing project is one of several applications developed on a sca...
The 3DprintedClock project is the result of ready-assembled 3D printed computational mechanisms, and is related to research in the fields...
We are studying and implementing a swarm of 36 holonomic-drive robots for use in an upcoming robotic opera. Each robot will eventually co...
C5 is our fourth-generation behavior architecture. It has been re-architected and fully documented. Our intention is to use C5 as a toolk...