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Peoples' mindsets, meaning their beliefs about their own intellectual abilities, affect their effort and thereby their performance on tas...
SpeechBlocks is a medium that allows children (4-5 years old) to engage in open-ended play with writing. They can build arbitrary composi...
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Looking beyond smart cities
The LEGO Wayfinder project combines LEGO, robotics, and seawater into a playground of project-based learning and citizen science for budd...
ML Learning
Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
Scratch BlockArt is an experimental visualization tool designed to let children discover their own computational patterns on Scratch. Exi...
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...
Creating long-term interpersonal interaction and shared experiences with social robots Many of our current projects explore the use ...
Emotion recognition modeled as a goal-directed process!
A social robot modifies its behavior to change what you think about it!
Scratch is a programming language and online community that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, games, and animations—a...
Open Ocean
CE 2.0
Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Understanding social-emotional behaviors in storytelling interactions plays a critical role in the development of interactive and educati...
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
A new curriculum that helps children understand how algorithms are designed will keep them safe and motivate them to help shape the future.
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
Blakeley Payne and Cynthia Breazeal discuss Blakeley’s open source AI curriculum for middle school students.
Advancing Wellbeing
How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
My latest research in Cynthia Breazeal's Personal Robots group has been on relational technology.
How do we raise conscientious consumers and designers of AI?Children today live in the age of artificial intelligence. On average, US chi...
Ethics Initiative
This summer, the Personal Robots group will be hosting a week-long workshop at the MIT Media Lab to teach kids about AI and ethics!
How can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?
SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optim...
Social robots are increasingly being developed for long-term interactions with children in domains such as healthcare, education, therapy...
Joi Ito considers how to best protect children online while encouraging them learn and grow.
StoryBlocks aims to promote creative expression, literacy development, and social-emotional development through storytelling for children...
Seymour Papert’s ideas about children, computers, and learning inspired many.
Thesis: Shruti Dhariwal. SCRATCH ♥ MEMORIES: Visualizations that empower children to celebrate and reflect on their creative trajectories. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. September 2018.
Mechanical mentors try to find their place as teacher’s helpers.
Joi Ito ponders the fearmongering and lack of rigorous research surrounding kids and screen time.
Prior research with preschool children has established that book reading, especially when children are encouraged to actively process the...
The project can determine what a person is thinking about and use the information to sort them into a Hogwarts house in one test.
Nataliya Kos'myna created a “Thinking Cap” that looks like the Sorting Hat from the popular “Harry Potter” series.
Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? ...
EEEeb Spring 2019: Urban OceansMarch 24, April 7 and 21, May 19, June 2 To register, please visit this lin...
Creating sociotechnical systems that shape our urban environments
Code Next : Cultural Resonation
Scratch Memories is a web-based visualization tool that empowers children to celebrate and reflect on their creative journey with Scratch...
ScratchBit is an effort to enable children to create more seamlessly in both the physical and digital world by creating a dedicated physi...
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.
A design project done in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab and the Laboratorio para la Ciudad (Laboratory for the City), Mexico City's...
Scratch Day (day.scratch.mit.edu) is a network of face-to-face local gatherings, on the same day in all parts of the world, where people ...
An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehic...
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.The MIT Media Lab's City Science research group, the University of Andorra, and nation...
In Family Creative Learning, we engage parents and children in workshops to design and learn together with creative technologies, like th...
Realtime detection of social cues in children’s voicesIn everyday conversation, people use what are known as backchannels to signal to so...
Analyzing detailed data from SpeechBlocks to understand how kids engage with constructionist literacy learning technologies, with th...
Kory Westlund, J. M., Park, H., Williams, R., & Breazeal, C. (2018). Measuring Young Children’s Long-term Relationships with Social Robots. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC). ACM: New York, NY.
What counts here—first and last—is not so-called knowledge of so-called facts, but vision—seeing. Seeing here implies Schauen [to see] (a...
For the interested reader:If you'd like to learn more about the topics covered in my post, Making new (robot) friends: Understandin...
How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences.
Tega is a new robot platform designed to support long-term, in-home interactions with children, with applications in early-literacy educa...
Hae Won Park, Mirko Gelsomini, Jin Joo Lee, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2017. Telling Stories to Robots: The Effect of Backchanneling on a Child's Storytelling. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '17).