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Jocelyn Shen, Jennifer King Chen, Leah Findlater, and Griffin Dietz Smith. 2025. eaSEL: Promoting Social-Emotional Learning and Parent-Child Interaction through AI-Mediated Content Consumption . In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25), April 26-May 1, 2025, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 28 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713405
Shen, J., Lee, A., Alghowinem, S., Adkins, R., Breazeal, C., & Park, H. W. (2025). Social robots as social proxies for fostering connection and empathy towards humanity. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2025), Melbourne, Australia. ACM.
Jocelyn Shen, Joel Mire, Hae Won Park, Cynthia Breazeal, & Maarten Sap. “Heart-felt Narratives: Tracing Empathy and Narrative Style in Personal Stories with LLMs”. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Jocelyn Shen, Joel Mire, Hae Won Park, Cynthia Breazeal, and Maarten Sap. 2024. HEART-felt Narratives: Tracing Empathy and Narrative Style in Personal Stories with LLMs. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 1026–1046, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Shen J, DiPaola D, Ali S, Sap M, Park H, Breazeal C. Empathy Toward Artificial Intelligence Versus Human Experiences and the Role of Transparency in Mental Health and Social Support Chatbot Design: Comparative Study. JMIR Ment Health 2024;11:e62679. URL: https://mental.jmir.org/2024/1/e62679. DOI: 10.2196/62679
Shen J, DiPaola D, Ali S, Sap M, Park H, Breazeal C. Empathy Toward Artificial Intelligence Versus Human Experiences and the Role of Transparency in Mental Health and Social Support Chatbot Design: Comparative Study. JMIR Ment Health 2024;11:e62679. URL: https://mental.jmir.org/2024/1/e62679. DOI: 10.2196/62679
Roeder, G., Das, M., Saadi, J.I., Harrington, C., Verma, A., Breazeal, C., D’Ignazio, C., Yang, M., & Ostrowski, A.K. 2024. Building spaces for design justice: A case study on the design justice pedagogy summit. Accepted to ASME 2024 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE2024).
Jocelyn Shen, Yubin Kim, Mohit Hulse, Wazeer Zulfikar, Sharifa Alghowinem, Cynthia Breazeal, and Hae Park. 2024. EmpathicStories++: A Multimodal Dataset for Empathy Towards Personal Experiences. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024, pages 4525–4536, Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Hang Jiang, Xiajie Zhang, Robert Mahari, Daniel Kessler, Eric Ma, Tal August, Irene Li, Alex Pentland, Yoon Kim, Deb Roy, and Jad Kabbara. 2024. Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling. In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 7194–7219, Bangkok, Thailand.
Jocelyn Shen, Yubin Kim, Mohit Hulse, Wazeer Zulfikar, Sharifa Alghowinem, Cynthia Breazeal, and Hae Park. 2024. EmpathicStories++: A Multimodal Dataset for Empathy Towards Personal Experiences. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024, pages 4525–4536, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Ostrowski, A.K., Das, M., Roeder, G., Saadi. J.I., Harrington, C., Verma, A., Breazeal, C., D’Ignazio, C., & Yang, M. 2024. Supporting reflexivity and action on equity and justice in design education: Insights from the design justice pedagogy summit. Design Thinking Research Symposium (DTRS) 14.
Ostrowski AK, Zhang J, Breazeal C and Park HW (2024) Promising directions for human-robot interactions defined by older adults. Front. Robot. AI 11:1289414. doi: 10.3389/frobt.2024.1289414
Raechel Walker, Olivia Dias, Matt Taylor, and Cynthia Breazeal, “Alleviating the Danger Of A Single Story Through Liberatory Computing Education,” in Proceedings of the 2024 RESPECT Annual Conference (RESPECT 2024), Atlanta, GA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA
Kim, Y., Park, C., Jeong, H., Chan, Y.S., Xu, X., McDuff, D., Breazeal, C. and Park, H.W., 2024. Adaptive Collaboration Strategy for LLMs in Medical Decision Making. arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.15155.
Williams, R.; and Breazeal, C. 2023. Dr. R.O. Bott Will See You Now: Exploring AI for Wellbeing with Middle School Students. In Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on Education Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI ’24). AAAI, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
Williams, R. (2024) Impact.AI: Democratizing AI through K-12 artificial intelligence education. [Doctoral dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology].
R. Walker, S. Brady, O. Dias, A. Castillo, K. Asfaw, E. Johnson, M. Taylor, and C. Breazeal , "Unveiling Voices: Boston Students' Data Activism Journey with Community Catalysts," in Black Issues in Computing Education Symposium 2024, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2024
Jocelyn Shen, Maarten Sap, Pedro Colon-Hernandez, Hae Park, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2023. Modeling Empathic Similarity in Personal Narratives. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 6237–6252, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Ostrowski, A.K., Zhang, J., Das, M., Breazeal, C., D’Ignazio, C., Verma, A., & Yang, M. Design justice strategies for design education. Accepted to ASME 2023 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE2023); Track: 35th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (DTM).
Saadi, J.I., Roeder, G., Das, M., Ostrowski, A.K., Breazeal, C., D’Ignazio, C., Verma, A., & Yang, M. Incorporating social, policy, and ethical considerations in engineering and design education. ASME 2023 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE2023)
Das, M., Saadi, J.I., Santos, M., Roeder, G., Ostrowski, A.K., Lee, S., Breazeal, C., D’Ignazio, C., Yang, M., & Verma, A. How and why instructors include and exclude social, policy, and ethical considerations in design education. Accepted to the 24th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED) 2023.
DiPaola, D., Charisi, V., Breazeal, C., & Sabanovic, S. (2023, March). Children's Fundamental Rights in Human-Robot Interaction Research: A Systematic Review. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 561-566).
DiPaola, D., Moore, K. S., Ali, S., Perret, B., Zhou, X., Zhang, H., & Lee, I. (2023, March). Make-a-Thon for Middle School AI Educators. In Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1 (pp. 305-311).
Shen, J., Jin, K., Zhang, A., Breazeal, C., and Park, H. 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.
Williams, Randi. Impact.AI: democratizing AI through K-12 artificial intelligence education. Dissertation Proposal. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023.
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**