Safinah Arshad Ali

Research Assistant
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Make-a-Thon for Middle School AI Educators

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).

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AI + Ethics Curricula for Middle School Youth: Lessons Learned from Three Project‑Based Curricula

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

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Escape!bot. Social Robots as Creative Problem-solving Partners

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!

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Social Robots as Creativity Eliciting Agents

Ali, S., Devasia, N., Park, H. W., & Breazeal, C. (2021). Social Robots as Creativity Eliciting Agents. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 8.

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Exploring Generative Models with Middle School Students

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

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Exploring Generative Models with Middle School Students

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).

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Exploring Generative Models with Middle School Students

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).

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What are GANs?: Introducing Generative Adversarial Networks to Middle School Students

Ali, S., DiPaola, D., & Breazeal, C. (2021, May). What are GANs?: Introducing Generative Adversarial Networks to Middle School Students. In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 35, No. 17, pp. 15472-15479).

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Constructionism, Ethics, and Creativity: Developing Primary and Middle School Artificial Intelligence Education

Ali, S., Williams, R., Payne B., Park H., Breazeal C. (2019) Constructionism, Ethics, and Creativity: Developing Primary and Middle School Artificial Intelligence Education. Presented in the International Workshop on Education in Artificiation Intelligence K-12 (EDUAI ’19). Palo Alto, CA, USA. Proceedings of IJCAI 2019.

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Leveraging Social Robots as a Creativity Support Tool for Young Children

Ali, S., Moroso, T. (2019). Leveraging Social Robots as a Creativity Support Tool for Young Children. Poster. Computer Science and Learning Science Symposium 2019.

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The New Science of Curiosity

To, A., Ali, S., Kaufman, G. Hammer, J. (2018). Integrating Curiosity and Uncertainty in Game Design. The New Science of Curiosity (pp. 169-203). New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

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A Social Robot System for Modeling Children's Word Pronunciation

Spaulding, S., Chen, H., Ali, S., Kulinski, M., & Breazeal, C. (2018, July). A Social Robot System for Modeling Children's Word Pronunciation: Socially Interactive Agents Track. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (pp. 1658-1666). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.

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Can Children Learn Creativity from a Social Robot?

Ali, S., Moroso, T., Breazeal, C. (2019). Can Children Learn Creativity from a Social Robot? In Proceedings of ACM Creativity and Cognition 2019.

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The Use of Social Robots for Social Emotional Communication within Families with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Ali, S., Breazeal, C. (2018). The Use of Social Robots for Social Emotional Communication within Families with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Play Make Learn