Safinah Arshad Ali

Graduate Student

Interactive Storybooks for Early AI Literacy

Children today are more digitally connected than ever before, with increasing exposure to tablets, social media, and smartphones. As techno…

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) interventions in education grow, there is an urgent need to co-design AI for education tools with educators…

Empathy is a driving force in our connection to others, our mental well-being, and our resilience to challenges. The human capacity for emp…

The social robot intelligence benchmark is a large-scale multimodal dataset comprising many diverse contexts, tasks, and environments to ev…

An essential element of K-12 AI literacy is educating learners about the ethical and societal implications of AI systems. Previous work in …

Today's children will live in a world saturated with artificial intelligence. Understanding the key idea behind the functioning of intellig…

As the presence of artificial intelligence expands significantly in children’s lives of learning and play, it is critical that students lea…

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…

Young Learner's Companion Developing robots' growth mindset and pro-curious behavior and fostering the same in young learners via long…