Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better

The increasing geographical separation and the technological divide has made it more difficult for elders to interact with their families. ...

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

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

Social robots take an active role in the inference process by producing social cues to elicit nonverbal responses from children to better...

Early literacy plays an important role in a child's future. However, the reality is that over 57 million children have no access to a sch...

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

Can social robots collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? Teg...

A growth mindset and curiosity have significant impact on children's academic and social achievements. We are developing and evaluating a...

Tega is a new robot platform designed to support long-term, in-home interactions with children, with applications in early-literacy educa...

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