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The underrepresentation of minoritized groups, particularly African Americans, is the longstanding reality of computing fields. Computing h…
Today's children will live in a world saturated with artificial intelligence. Understanding the key idea behind the functioning of intellig…
Instructed learning is ever-present throughout our lives. An element of it, How-To questions, (e.g., “How do I cook rice?”, “How do I write…
With the emergence of social robots in people’s daily lives, their interactions with people need to consider not only engaging with in…
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…
Research MotivationCan we become more socially connected with one another through the facilitation of a socially embodied agent? What types…
Technologies designed with personalities and social interfaces are entering our homes in the form of social robots such as Jibo and Cozmo. …
We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…
Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audio-…
Increasingly, devices designed with artificial intelligence (AI), such as robots or smart speakers, are entering people’s homes, workspaces…
Dyadic Speech-based Affect Recognition using DAMI-P2C Parent-child Multimodal Interaction Dataset
Policymakers, practitioners, and researchers are grappling with some herculean questions regarding kids' safety online. Homemade slime…
As the presence of artificial intelligence expands significantly in children’s lives of learning and play, it is critical that students lea…
Social robots equipped with AI and designed with users’ social, emotional, and relational interactions in mind are increasingly being highl…
Tega is a new robot platform designed to support long-term, in-home interactions with children, with applications in early-literacy educati…
Families with ASD often struggle with social and emotional communication. This work explores the role of an embodied agent (a social robot)…
Doodle Bot is a robot-based creative AI learning platform for high school students. It consists of an introduction to robotics, hardware, s…
Children’s creativity—the ability to come up with novel, surprising, and valuable ideas—has been known to contribute to their learning outc…
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…
An affective robotic ring which allows users to interact with multiple robots using finger gestures.- Runs on Robotic Operating System (ROS…
How to Train Your Robot is a curriculum for students in 5-8th grade to explore artificial intelligence and ethics. In this course, students…
How do we raise conscientious consumers and designers of AI?Children today live in the age of artificial intelligence. On average, US child…
The Jibo Research Platform is an in-the-field deployable Social Robotics experimentation and data collection infrastructure. Built upon the…
Voice-user interfaces (VUIs), such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, are increasingly becoming present in domestic environments. Us…
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents in an embodied form, such as Jibo, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are increasingly becoming part of our…
Embodied voice-based agents, such as Amazon’s Echo, Google Home, and Jibo, are becoming increasingly present in the home environment. For m…
Social robots are increasingly being developed for long-term interactions with children in domains such as healthcare, education, therapy, …
Text-to-Motion generates a sequence of contingent robot animations to accompany the sentiment analyzed from an input sentence and its spoke…
Cognimates is a platform where parents and children (7-10 years old) participate in creative programming activities in which they lea…
Understanding social-emotional behaviors in storytelling interactions plays a critical role in the development of interactive and education…
Realtime detection of social cues in children’s voicesIn everyday conversation, people use what are known as backchannels to signal to some…
Most countries are projected to see the number of people ages 65 and older surpass the population under the age of 15 by 2050. The limitati…
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 schoo…
Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? We…
Young Learner's Companion Developing robots' growth mindset and pro-curious behavior and fostering the same in young learners via long…
The process by which children learn native languages is markedly different from the process of learning a second, or non-native, language. …