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Mechanical mentors try to find their place as teacher’s helpers.
Looking beyond smart cities
Joi Ito ponders the fearmongering and lack of rigorous research surrounding kids and screen time.
ML Learning
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Advancing wellbeing by using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Designing wearable systems for cognitive enhancement
Prior research with preschool children has established that book reading, especially when children are encouraged to actively process the...
Peoples' mindset, meaning their beliefs about their own intellectual abilities, affect their effort and thereby their performance on task...
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.
Open Ocean
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Exploring evolutionary and ecological engineering
Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? ...
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Scratch is a programming language and online community that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, games, and animations—a...
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
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
Advancing Wellbeing
CE 2.0
Code Next : Cultural Resonation
Scratch BlockArt is an experimental visualization tool designed to let children discover their own computational patterns on Scratch. Exi...
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...
A social robot modifies its behavior to change what you think about it!
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 ...
Creating long-term interpersonal interaction and shared experiences with social robots Many of our current projects explore the use ...
Thesis: Shruti Dhariwal. SCRATCH ♥ MEMORIES: Visualizations that empower children to celebrate and reflect on their creative trajectories. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. September 2018.
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...
The LEGO Wayfinder project combines LEGO, robotics, and seawater into a playground of project-based learning and citizen science for budd...
Ethics
Scaffolding storytelling to connect children through self-expressionStoryBlocks is a smart-expressive medium, designed in collaboration w...
SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optim...
Realtime detection of social cues in children’s voicesIn everyday conversation, people use what are known as backchannels to signal to so...
Understanding social-emotional behaviors in storytelling interactions plays a critical role in the development of interactive and educati...
Social robots are increasingly being developed for long-term interactions with children in domains such as healthcare, education, therapy...
SpeechBlocks is a smartphone app that allows children to explore spelling principles in an open-ended way. Children rearrange words on th...
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).
Kory Westlund., J. M., Dickens, L., Jeong, S., Harris, P. L., DeSteno, D., & Breazeal, C. L. (2017). Children use non-verbal cues to learn new words from robots as well as people. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction.
Emotion recognition modeled as a goal-directed process!
Jin Joo Lee. A Bayesian Theory of Mind Approach to Nonverbal Communication for Human-Robot Interactions. PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.
HW Park, M Gelsomini, JJ Lee, T Zhu, and C Breazeal (2017). Backchannel Opportunity Prediction for Social Robot Listeners. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
E Short, K Swift-Spong, J Greczek, A Ramachandran, A Litoiu, E Grigore, D Feil- Seifer, S Shuster, JJ Lee, et al (2014). "How to Train Your DragonBot: Socially Assistive Robots for Teaching Children About Nutrition Through Play." In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Edinburgh, UK).
Networked Playscapes re-imagines outdoor play by merging the flexibility of the digital world with the tangible, sensorial properties of ...
Tan, Flora. Algorithmically Supported Moderation in Children’s Online Communities. Thesis. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.
Media Lab researchers win three of six categories in inaugural contest.
Suppose that one could put a connected, portable computer into the hands of all the children of the world who lack access to the kind of ...
Understanding children's relationships with social robots
For a classroom of a dozen 3- through 6-year-olds, things are surprisingly quiet inside Wildflower Montessori. The most audible sounds, t...