Children’s creativity—the ability to come up with novel, surprising, and valuable ideas—has been known to contribute to their learning outc…
With the emergence of social robots in people’s daily lives, their interactions with people need to consider not only engaging with in…
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. …
Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audio-…
Social robots equipped with AI and designed with users’ social, emotional, and relational interactions in mind are increasingly being highl…
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…
Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? We…
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. …
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…