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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

#robotics #design #architecture +31 more
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society

#robotics #design #social networks +44 more
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in

#robotics #design #social networks +142 more
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity

#robotics #design #social networks +134 more
Research
Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.

#robotics #design #virtual reality +73 more
Accepting Applicants
Article Research

Who Owns the Truth? | CCC at Ars Electronica 2023

The MIT CCC participated in this year's Ars Electronica festival from September 6–10, 2023.

via MIT Center for Constructive Communication · Sept. 5, 2023
in MIT Center for Constructive Communication · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
#social networks #art #artificial intelligence +4 more
Project Research

Collective Echos

Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…

in MIT Center for Constructive Communication · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Naana Obeng-Marnu · Maggie Hughes +2 more
#design #social networks #human-computer interaction +8 more
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing

#robotics #design #social networks +131 more
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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people

#robotics #design #social networks +84 more
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience

#robotics #design #social networks +147 more
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

#design #social networks #computer vision +50 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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ScratchJr

ScratchJr makes coding accessible to younger children (ages 5-7), enabling them to program their own interactive stories, games, and animat…

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Chris Garrity · Andrew Sliwinski +3 more
#robotics #design #kids +4 more
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ML Learning

ML Learning

#design #virtual reality #cognition +22 more
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PAL: Project on Affinities + Language

The Project on Affinities and Language (PAL) is designed to help us understand what happens in a child’s brain when they engage with their …

in Affective Computing
Kristy Johnson
#learning + teaching #neurobiology #language learning +3 more
Archived
Article Research

Learning interventions for language and literacy

Building on research about deeper social-emotional engagement

via MIT Open Learning · Sept. 14, 2021
in Personal Robots
#kids #learning + teaching #language learning
Project Research

Child-Driven, Robot-Guided Literacy Activity

 

in Personal Robots
Pedro Colon-Hernandez · Safinah Arshad Ali +2 more
#robotics #design #construction +5 more
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Project Research

Storytelling Companion

Children’s oral language skills in preschool can predict their academic success later in life. Helping children improve their language and …

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Jacqueline M Kory Westlund
#robotics #kids #learning + teaching +4 more
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Project Research

SpeechBlocks

SpeechBlocks is a medium that allows children (4-5 years old) to engage in open-ended play with writing. They can build arbitrary compositi…

in Social Machines
Jim Gray · Ivan Sysoev +1 more
#design #construction #kids +5 more
Project Research

Personalized Robot Storytelling Companion

Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? We…

in Personal Robots
Hae Won Park · Xiajie (Brayden) Zhang +9 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction +13 more
Post Research

A Counting—Poetic Justice group call for multilingual speakers

Please help Poetic Justice create an artwork that includes all the communities, voices, and languages of NYC.

Nov. 8, 2019
in Poetic Justice
#art #language learning #community
Archived
Project Research

Relational AI

Creating long-term interpersonal interaction and shared experiences with social robots Many of our current projects explore the use of…

in Personal Robots · ML Learning
Jacqueline M Kory Westlund · Cynthia Breazeal +1 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #cognition +5 more
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Curious Learning: Understanding learning behaviors for early literacy

Early literacy plays an important role in a child's future. However, the reality is that over 57 million children have no access to a schoo…

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Nikhita Singh +1 more
#robotics #data #learning + teaching +1 more
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Robot Expressiveness Affects Children's Learning

Prior research with preschool children has established that book reading, especially when children are encouraged to actively process the s…

in Personal Robots · ML Learning
Cynthia Breazeal · Hae Won Park +2 more
#robotics #kids #learning + teaching +2 more
Archived
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Project Research

Words in Motion

Embodied theories of language propose that the way we communicate verbally is grounded in our bodies. Nevertheless, the way a second langua…

in Fluid Interfaces
Pattie Maes · Christian David Vazquez Machado
#virtual reality #language learning
Archived
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Project Research

WordSense

As more powerful and spatially aware Augmented Reality devices become available, we can leverage the user’s context to embed reality with a…

in Fluid Interfaces · ML Learning
Pattie Maes · Christian David Vazquez Machado
#virtual reality #augmented reality #learning + teaching +2 more
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Kinesthetic Language Learning in Virtual Reality

Tapping into the physicality of language to enhance the way we learn.

June 19, 2018
in ML Learning
#virtual reality #language learning
Post Research

Making new (robot) friends: Further reading

For the interested reader:If you'd like to learn more about the topics covered in my post,  Making new (robot) friends: Understanding …

June 7, 2017
in ML Learning · Personal Robots
#cognition #kids #learning + teaching +4 more
Publication Research

Children use non-verbal cues to learn new words from robots as well as people

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.

Academic Paper, May 2017
in Personal Robots
#kids #social robotics #language learning
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Mixing Realities & Language Learning in the Wild

Seamlessly blend what you live with what you learn: mixed reality as a platform for language- learning “serendipitously in the wild."

Sept. 28, 2017
in ML Learning
#virtual reality #learning + teaching #interfaces +1 more
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Making new (robot) friends

Understanding children's relationships with social robots

June 13, 2017
in ML Learning · Personal Robots
#cognition #kids #learning + teaching +4 more
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Project Research

Children Use Nonverbal Cues to Learn from Robots

When learning from human partners, infants and young children will pay attention to nonverbal signals, such as gaze and bodily orientation,…

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Jacqueline M Kory Westlund +1 more
#robotics #kids #learning + teaching +2 more
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Project Research

Robotic Learning Companions

The language and literacy skills of young children entering school are highly predictive of their long-term academic success. Children from…

Cynthia Breazeal · David Nunez +2 more
#robotics #kids #learning + teaching +2 more
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Publication Research

Flat versus expressive storytelling: young children's learning and retention of a social robot's narrative

Kory Westlund, J., Jeong, S., Park, H. W., Ronfard, S., Adhikari, A., Harris, P. L., David DeSteno, & Breazeal, C. (2017). Flat versus expressive storytelling: young children's learning and retention of a social robot's narrative. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

Academic Paper, May 2017
in Personal Robots
#kids #learning + teaching #social robotics +1 more
Publication Research

A Comparison of children learning from robots, tablets, and people

Kory Westlund, J., Dickens, L., Jeong, S., Harris, P., DeSteno, D., & Breazeal, C. (2015). A Comparison of children learning from robots, tablets, and people. In Proceedings of New Friends: The 1st International Conference on Social Robots in Therapy and Education.

Proceedings, Nov. 2015
in Personal Robots
#kids #learning + teaching #social robotics +1 more
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Robotic Language Learning Companions

Young children learn language not through listening alone, but through active communication with a social actor. Cultural immersion and con…

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Jacqueline M Kory Westlund +1 more
#robotics #kids #learning + teaching +2 more
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They’re having fun… but are they learning?

How can you measure the learning outcomes of play? This has frustrated professionals in the field of early childhood education for years.

Feb. 10, 2017
in ML Learning
#learning + teaching #language learning

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