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Jocelyn Shen, Kathryn Jin, Ann Zhang, Cynthia Breazeal, and Hae Won Park. 2023. Affective Typography: The Effect of AI-Driven Font Design on Empathetic Story Reading. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’23), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 11 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.358562

Du, X., & Breazeal, C. (2022). Engage Teacher Leaders to Design Inclusive and Inquiry-Based Practices: Rethinking the Use of Artificial Intelligence. In C. Webb, & A. Lindner (Ed.), Preparing Pre-Service Teachers to Integrate Technology in K-12 Classrooms: Standards and Best Practices (pp. 93-113). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-5478-7.ch006

T. Reddy, R. Williams and C. Breazeal, "LevelUp – Automatic Assessment of Block-Based Machine Learning Projects for AI Education," 2022 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), 2022, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/VL/HCC53370.2022.9833130.

Ostrowski, A.K., Walker, R., Das., M., Yang, M., Breazeal, C., Park, H.W., & Verma, A., (2022). Ethics, equity, & justice in human-robot interaction: A review and future directions. In Proceedings of 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication.

Das, M., Roeder, G., Ostrowski, A.K., Yang, M., & Verma, A. (2022). What Do We Mean When We Write About Ethics, Equity, And Justice In Engineering Design? Proceedings of the ASME 2022 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE2022

Williams, R., Ali, S., Devasia, N. et al. AI + Ethics Curricula for Middle School Youth: Lessons Learned from Three Project-Based Curricula. Int J Artif Intell Educ (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-022-00298-y

Jeong, S. (2022). Designing and Deploying Robotic Companions to Improve Human Psychological Wellbeing [Doctoral Dissertation]. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ali, S., Devasia, N. E., & Breazeal, C. (2022, June). Escape! Bot: Social Robots as Creative Problem-Solving Partners. In Creativity and Cognition (pp. 275-283). 🏆 Paper received honorable mention award!

Du, X., & Breazeal, C. (2022, June). Exploring changes in special education teachers’ attitudes and design belief towards pedagogical agents in co-designing with children. In Interaction Design and Children (pp. 472-478).

Huili Chen, Anastasia K. Ostrowski, Soo Jung Jang, Cynthia Breazeal and Hae Won Park (2022). Designing Long-term Parent-child-robot Triadic Interaction at Home through Lived Technology Experiences and Interviews. In the proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022)

H. Chen, S. M. Alghowinem, S. J. Jang, C. Breazeal and H. W. Park, "Dyadic Affect in Parent-child Multi-modal Interaction: Introducing the DAMI-P2C Dataset and its Preliminary Analysis," in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, doi: 10.1109/TAFFC.2022.3178689.

H. Chen, S. M. Alghowinem, S. J. Jang, C. Breazeal and H. W. Park, "Dyadic Affect in Parent-child Multi-modal Interaction: Introducing the DAMI-P2C Dataset and its Preliminary Analysis," in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, doi: 10.1109/TAFFC.2022.3178689.

Harold Abelson and Siu-Cheung Kong. Computational Thinking Education in K–12. MIT Press, May 2022.

Das, M., Ostrowski, A.K., Ben-David, S., Roeder, G.J., Kimura, K., D'Ignazio, C., Breazeal, C., & Verma, A. (2022, March). Auditing design justice: The impact of social movements on design pedagogy at a technology institution. In 2022 Design Thinking Research Symposium. (pp. 121-138). DesignTech, Faculty of Architecture & Town Planning Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 2022

Ostrowski, A.K., Breazeal, C., & Park, H.W. (2022, March). How do older adults engage as robot co-designers? Rapid prototyping supported by lived experiences with technology. In 2022 Design Thinking Research Symposium. (pp. 121-138). DesignTech, Faculty of Architecture & Town Planning Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 2022

Ostrowski, A. K., Breazeal, C., & Park, H.W. (2022, March). Mixed-Method Long-Term Robot Usage: Older Adults’ Lived Experience of Social Robots. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

Ostrowski, A. K. & Breazeal, C. (2022, March). Design Justice for Robot Design and Policy Making. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

DiPaola, D., Ostrowski, A. K., Spiegel, R., Darling, K., & Breazeal, C. (2022, March). Children's Perspectives of Advertising with Social Robots: a Policy Investigation. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

Ostrowski, A. K., Fu, J., Zygouras, V., Park, H. W., & Breazeal, C. Speed Dating with Voice User Interfaces (VUIs): Understanding How Families Interact and Perceive VUIs in a Group Setting. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 375.

Alghowinem, S., Chen, H., Breazeal, C., & Park, H. W. (2021, December). Body Gesture and Head Movement Analyses in Dyadic Parent-Child Interaction as Indicators of Relationship. In 2021 16th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2021) (pp. 01-05). IEEE.

Ostrowski, A. K., Harrington, C.N., Breazeal, C., & Park, H. W. (2021). Personal Narratives in Technology Design: The Value of Sharing Older Adults' Stories in the Design of Social Robots. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 315.

Ostrowski, A. K., Breazeal. C., & Park, H. W. (2021, August). Long-Term Co-Design Guidelines: Empowering Older Adults as Co-Designers of Social Robots. In 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication.

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Maria Luce Lupetti, Michal Luria, Diana Löffler, Mafalda Gamboa, Lea Albaugh, Waki Kamino, Anastasia K. Ostrowski, David Puljiz, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Marcus Scheunemann, & Dan Lockton. 2021, June. Collection of Metaphors for Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021 (pp. 1366-1379).

Spaulding S, Shen J, Park HW, Breazeal C. Lifelong Personalization via Gaussian Process Modeling for Long-Term HRI. Front Robot AI. 2021;8. doi:10.3389/frobt.2021.683066

Sysoev, Ivan, et al. "Designing building blocks for open-ended early literacy software." International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction 28 (2021)

Safinah Ali, Daniella DiPaola, Irene Lee, Jenna Hong, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2021. Exploring Generative Models with Middle School Students. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21), May 8–13, 2021, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA 13 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445226

Spaulding, S., Shen, J., Park, H., & Breazeal, C. (2021, May). Towards Transferrable Personalized Student Models in Educational Games. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (pp. 1245-1253).

Ali, S., DiPaola, D., Lee, I., Hong, J., & Breazeal, C. (2021, May). Exploring Generative Models with Middle School Students. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13).

Tejal Reddy, Randi Williams, Cynthia Breazeal. 2021. Text Classification for AI Education. In Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE’21).

Ostrowski, A. K., Zygouras, V., Park, H. W., & Breazeal, C. (2021, March). Small Group Interactions with Voice-User Interfaces: Exploring Social Embodiment, Rapport, and Engagement. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 322-331).

Huggins, Matthew, et al. "Practical Guidelines for Intent Recognition: BERT with Minimal Training Data Evaluated in Real-World HRI Application." Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2021.

Williams, R., Kaputsos, S.P., Breazeal, C. Teacher Perspectives on How to Train Your Robot, A Middle School AI and Ethics Curriculum. Proceedings of the 10th Symposium on Education Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI ’21). 2021.

Chen, Huili, et al. "Dyadic speech-based affect recognition using dami-p2c parent-child multimodal interaction dataset." Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. 2020.

Chen, H., Zhang, Y., Weninger, F., Picard, R., Breazeal, C., & Park, H. W. (2020, October). Dyadic speech-based affect recognition using dami-p2c parent-child multimodal interaction dataset. In Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 97-106).

Ostrowski, A.K., Breazeal, C., & Park, H.W. 2020. Design research in HRI: Roboticists, design features, and users as co-designers. IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication 2021 Workshop on Designerly HRI Knowledge

Jeong, Sooyeon, et al. "A Robotic Positive Psychology Coach to Improve College Students’ Wellbeing." Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man 2020) **Best Paper Award**

Arias, Kika., Jeong, Sooyeon., Park, Hae Won., Breazeal, Cynthia., "Toward Designing User-centered Idle Behaviors for Social Robots in the Home.", 1st international workshop on Designerly HRI Knowledge. Held in conjunction with the 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020)

Tejwani, Ravi, et al. "Migratable AI: Effect of identity and information migration on users’ perception of conversational AI agents." Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2020

Williams, R., & Breazeal, C. (2020). How to Train Your Robot: A Middle School AI and Ethics Curriculum. . Presented in the International Workshop on Education in Artificial Intelligence K-12 (EDUAI ’20).

Huili Chen, Hae Won Park, Cynthia Breazeal, Teaching and learning with children: Impact of reciprocal peer learning with a social robot on children’s learning and emotive engagement, Computers & Education, Volume 150, 2020, 103836, ISSN 0360-1315, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2020.103836.

Huili Chen, Hae Won Park, Xiajie Zhang, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2020. Impact of Interaction Context on the Student Affect-Learning Relationship in Child-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’20), March 23– 26, 2020, Cambridge, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3319502.3374822

Huili Chen, Hae Won Park, Xiajie Zhang, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2020. Impact of Interaction Context on the Student Affect-Learning Relationship in Child-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’20) https://doi.org/10.1145/3319502.3374822

Ali, S., Williams, R., Payne B., Park H., Breazeal C. (2019) Constructionism, Ethics, and Creativity: Developing Primary and Middle School Artificial Intelligence Education. Presented in the International Workshop on Education in Artificiation Intelligence K-12 (EDUAI ’19). Palo Alto, CA, USA. Proceedings of IJCAI 2019.

Logan, Deirdre, et al. "Social Robots for Hospitalized Children." Pediatrics 143.6 (2019).

Kory-Westlund, J. M., & Breazeal, C. (2019). Assessing Children's Perception and Acceptance of a Social Robot. Proceedings of the 18th ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC) (pp. 38-50). ACM: New York, NY.

Randi Williams, Hae Won Park, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2019. A is for Artificial Intelligence. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI ’19). ACM, New York, NY, USA.

Ali, S., Moroso, T. (2019). Leveraging Social Robots as a Creativity Support Tool for Young Children. Poster. Computer Science and Learning Science Symposium 2019.

Ostrowski, A.K., DiPaola, D., Partridge E., Park, H.W., & Breazeal, C. (2019). Older Adults Living with Social Robots: Promoting Social Connectedness in Long-Term Communities. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. doi: 10.1109/MRA.2019.2905234

Rahwan, Iyad, Manuel Cebrian, Nick Obradovich, Josh Bongard, Jean-François Bonnefon, Cynthia Breazeal, Jacob W. Crandall, et al. “Machine Behaviour.” Nature 568, no. 7753 (April 2019): 477. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1138-y.

Breazeal, Cynthia L. , Ostrowski, Anastasia K., Singh, N., & Park, Hae Won. (2019). Designing social robots for older adults. National Academy of Engineering The Bridge, 49 (1), 22-31.

Hae Won Park, Ishaan Grover, Samuel Spaulding, Louis Gomez, and Cynthia Breazeal. “A Model- free Affective Reinforcement Learning Approach to Personalization of a Social Robot Companion for Early Literacy Education” In Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2019.

Randi Williams, Hae Won Park, Lauren Oh, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2019. PopBots: Designing an Artificial Intelligence Curriculum for Early Childhood Education. In Proceedings of the 9th Symposium on Education Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI '19). AAAI, Menlo Park, CA, USA.

To, A., Ali, S., Kaufman, G. Hammer, J. (2018). Integrating Curiosity and Uncertainty in Game Design. The New Science of Curiosity (pp. 169-203). New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Druga, S. (2018). Growing up with AI. Cognimates: from coding to teaching machines

Spaulding, S., Chen, H., Ali, S., Kulinski, M., & Breazeal, C. (2018, July). A Social Robot System for Modeling Children's Word Pronunciation: Socially Interactive Agents Track. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (pp. 1658-1666). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.

Ali, S., Moroso, T., Breazeal, C. (2019). Can Children Learn Creativity from a Social Robot? In Proceedings of ACM Creativity and Cognition 2019.

Ali, S., Breazeal, C. (2018). The Use of Social Robots for Social Emotional Communication within Families with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Play Make Learn

Randi Williams, Christian Vazquez, Stefania Druga, Pattie Maes, Cynthia Breazeal. “My Doll Says It's OK: Voice-Enabled Toy Influences Children's Moral Decisions.” IDC. 2018

Stefania Druga, Randi Williams, Hae Won Park, Cynthia Breazeal. "How smart are the smart toys?: Children’s and parents’ attributions of intelligence to computational objects.” IDC. 2018