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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 ...
The diagnosis and tracking of mood disorders still rely on clinical assessments, originating more than 50 years ago, of self-reported dep...
How do we raise conscientious consumers and designers of AI?Children today live in the age of artificial intelligence. On average, US chi...
The Jibo Research Platform is an in-the-field deployable Social Robotics experimentation and data collection infrastructure. Built upon t...
Voice-user interfaces (VUIs), such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, are increasingly becoming present in domestic environments. ...
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents in an embodied form, such as Jibo, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are increasingly becoming part of o...
Embodied voice-based agents, such as Amazon’s Echo, Google Home, and Jibo, are becoming increasingly present in the home environment. For...
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 spo...
Empathy is a core human skill. From early stages of our lives, being able to understand and behave with empathy is fundamental to our soc...
Cognimates is a platform where parents and children (7-10 years old) participate in creative programming activities in which they l...
Understanding social-emotional behaviors in storytelling interactions plays a critical role in the development of interactive and educati...
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 ...
Emotionally supportive robots improve overall team functioning!
Realtime detection of social cues in children’s voicesIn everyday conversation, people use what are known as backchannels to signal to so...
Emotion recognition modeled as a goal-directed process!
Unconventional mixing of research fields introduces a new method to study human behavior using social robots.
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 limita...
Creating long-term interpersonal interaction and shared experiences with social robots Many of our current projects explore the use ...
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...
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...
Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? ...
Young Learner's Companion Developing robots' growth mindset and pro-curious behavior and fostering the same in young learners via lo...
The process by which children learn native languages is markedly different from the process of learning a second, or non-native, language...