Globally, depression affects more than 264 million people of all ages, and is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Several interactive …
We live in a world of personified conversational assistants (agents). We interact with these agents in our daily lives such as smart speake…
A significant number of college students suffer from mental health issues that impact their physical, social, and occupa…
The Huggable is a new type of robotic companion for health care, education, and social communication applications. The Huggable is much mor…
When learning from human partners, infants and young children will pay attention to nonverbal signals, such as gaze and bodily orientation,…
Prior research with preschool children has established that book reading, especially when children are encouraged to actively process the s…
We developed a smartphone application that detects users’ affect and provides personalized positive psychology interventions in order to en…
Our mission is to develop the computational techniques that will enable the design, implementation, and evaluation of "relational" robots, …
Young children learn language not through listening alone, but through active communication with a social actor. Cultural immersion and con…