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...
Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? ...
Realtime detection of social cues in children’s voicesIn everyday conversation, people use what are known as backchannels to signal to so...
The increasing geographical separation and the technological divide has made it more difficult for elders to interact with their families. ...
The process by which children learn native languages is markedly different from the process of learning a second, or non-native, language...
Can we enable social connectivity between astronauts and people on Earth through an embodied agent?Astronauts actively communicate with t...
Prior research with preschool children has established that book reading, especially when children are encouraged to actively process the...
Young Learner's Companion Developing robots' growth mindset and pro-curious behavior and fostering the same in young learners via lo...
Tega is a new robot platform designed to support long-term, in-home interactions with children, with applications in early-literacy educa...