In a series of design workshops, the HRI Equitable Design framework from previous work (see Ostrowski et al. 2022) was expanded to a worksh…
Emotional wellbeing is an important indicator of overall health and poor emotional wellbeing can equally adversely affect one's overal…
Today’s artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are changing how many people play, work, learn, and govern themselves. Due to this rapid …
S.P.A.R.K.I. (Students' Personal Assistant for Reinforcing Knowledge and Innovation) is a GPT-powered chatbot that scaffolds children's wo…
The social robot intelligence benchmark is a large-scale multimodal dataset comprising of many diverse contexts, tasks and environments to …
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Today's children will live in a world saturated with artificial intelligence. Understanding the key idea behind the functioning of intellig…
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…
Increasingly, devices designed with artificial intelligence (AI), such as robots or smart speakers, are entering people’s homes, workspaces…
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…
How to Train Your Robot is a curriculum for students in 5-8th grade to explore artificial intelligence and ethics. In this course, students…
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…
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…
Cognimates is a platform where parents and children (7-10 years old) participate in creative programming activities in which they lea…
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…
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…
The process by which children learn native languages is markedly different from the process of learning a second, or non-native, language. …
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…
Tega is a new robot platform designed to support long-term, in-home interactions with children, with applications in early-literacy educati…