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Project Research

Huggable: A social robot for pediatric care

The Huggable is a new type of robotic companion for health care, education, and social communication applications. The Huggable is much m...

in Advancing Wellbeing · Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Sooyeon Jeong
#health #social robotics #wellbeing
Research
Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

#design #social networks #computer vision +50 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Affective Computing

Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion

#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +39 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Engagement with Voice-User Interface Agents

Voice-user interfaces (VUIs), such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, are increasingly becoming present in domestic environments. ...

in Personal Robots
Anastasia Ostrowski · Hae Won Park +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #social robotics +1 more
Research
Fluid Interfaces

Designing systems for cognitive enhancement

#robotics #design #virtual reality +59 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

Career Girls Role Models: Randi Williams

Randi Williams talks about her work. Her advice to girls is never to be afraid to make yourself heard; your ideas are essential.

via Career Girls · Feb. 1, 2021
in Personal Robots
#robotics #artificial intelligence #social robotics
Research
Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +51 more
Accepting Applicants
Article Research

Robots will be tools for older adults and care givers in the future

Anastasia Ostrowski talks to the Digital Future Society about her work in this Q+A.

via Digital Future Society · Jan. 20, 2021
in Personal Robots
#robotics #social robotics #technology +1 more
Archived
Research
ML Learning

ML Learning

#design #virtual reality #cognition +22 more
Article Research

Six researchers who are shaping the future of artificial intelligence

Nature profiles researchers from a variety of different fields, including the Lab’s own Cynthia Breazeal, who are shaping the future of AI.

via Nature · Dec. 9, 2020
in Personal Robots
#artificial intelligence #learning #social robotics +1 more
Research
Personal Robots

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

#robotics #design #virtual reality +60 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a th...

in Civic Media · Fluid Interfaces · Personal Robots
Adam Haar Horowitz · Ishaan Grover +4 more
#human-computer interaction #art #artificial intelligence +15 more
Project Research

[bike] swarm

As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers...

in City Science
Alex Berke · Kent Larson +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +16 more
Archived
Project Research

Robotic Positive Psychology Coach for College Students

A significant number of college students suffer from mental health issues that impact their physical, social, and occu...

in Personal Robots
Sharifa Alghowinem · Agata Lapedriza Garcia +5 more
#robotics #social robotics #wellbeing
Archived
Research
Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion

#robotics #design #social networks +63 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Project Research

Storytelling Companion

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

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

Personal Robots and Affective Computing team win Best Paper Award at IEEE RO-MAN 2020

For the paper: "A Robotic Positive Psychology Coach to Improve College Students’ Wellbeing"

Sept. 15, 2020
in Affective Computing · Personal Robots
#robotics #social robotics #wellbeing
Archived
Research
Synthetic Neurobiology

Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations

#art #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +24 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Research
Civic Media

Creating technology for social change

#robotics #design #social networks +52 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Research
Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence

#design #social networks #human-computer interaction +40 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Project Research

Machine Behavior

Machines powered by artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic, and ...

in Scalable Cooperation · Personal Robots · Human Dynamics
Iyad Rahwan · Manuel Cebrian +3 more
#artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction #learning +4 more
Archived
Project Research

How to Train Your Robot

How to Train Your Robot Companion is a curriculum for students in 5-8th grade to explore artificial intelligence and ethics. In this cour...

in Personal Robots
Blakeley H. Payne · Safinah Arshad Ali +3 more
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +3 more
Project Research

Creativity with Social Robots

Children’s creativity—the ability to come up with novel, surprising, and valuable ideas—has been known to contribute to their learning ou...

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Safinah Arshad Ali
#robotics #social robotics
Project Research

Affective Robotic Ring

An affective robotic ring which allows users to interact with multiple robots using finger gestures.- Runs on Robotic Operating System (R...

in Personal Robots
M.S. Suryateja Jammalamadaka · Manushaqe Muco +1 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #sensors +2 more
Post Research

Meet the 2017 LEGO Papert Fellows

The LEGO Papert Fellowship program was officially launched in 2017.

April 22, 2020
in Lifelong Kindergarten · Personal Robots · Fluid Interfaces
#construction #kids #learning +3 more
Post Research

Announcing the 2019 LEGO Papert Fellows

The LEGO Papert Fellowships support three graduate students working at the intersection of creativity, play, learning, and new technology.

April 4, 2019
in Lifelong Kindergarten · Personal Robots · Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #civic media #learning +3 more
Project Research

Robot Mindset and Curiosity

Young Learner's Companion Developing robots' growth mindset and pro-curious behavior and fostering the same in young learners via lo...

in Personal Robots
Hae Won Park · Safinah Arshad Ali +2 more
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +4 more
Archived
Project Research

PopBots: An early childhood AI curriculum

How can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?

in Personal Robots
Hae Won Park · Cynthia Breazeal +1 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction +7 more
Archived
Article Research

Bringing artificial intelligence into the classroom, research lab, and beyond

MIT Quest for Intelligence shares AI-focused UROP projects, including senior Nicole Thumma's work with the Personal Robots group.

via MIT News · Feb. 13, 2020
in Personal Robots
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +1 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? ...

in Personal Robots
Hae Won Park · Xiajie (Brayden) Zhang +9 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction +10 more
Article Research

Teachers, the robots are coming. But that's not a bad thing

Can robots help teachers improve classroom learning?

via Education Week · Jan. 7, 2020
in Personal Robots
#kids #learning #social robotics
Project Research

Jibo Social Robotic Research Platform

The Jibo Research Platform is an in-the-field deployable Social Robotics experimentation and data collection infrastructure. Built upon t...

in Personal Robots
Jon Ferguson · Hae Won Park +2 more
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +2 more
Article Research

The Rise of Social Robots: How AI can help us flourish

"I don’t think that AI will have fulfilled its full potential unless it can help us unlock human potential.”

via UVA Darden: Ideas to Action · Jan. 7, 2020
in Personal Robots
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +2 more
Project Research

Tega: A New Social Robot Platform

Tega is a new robot platform designed to support long-term, in-home interactions with children, with applications in early-literacy educa...

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Hae Won Park +3 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #kids +3 more
Article Research

Bringing artificial intelligence and MIT to middle school classrooms

MIT researchers and collaborators have developed an open-source curriculum to teach young students about ethics and artificial intelligence.

via MIT News · Dec. 30, 2019
in Personal Robots
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +2 more
Article Research

Discovering You: Engineering Your World - Hae Won Park

Labber Hae Won Park talks to NBC News Learn about how social robots can help children develop language skills.

via NBC News Learn · Nov. 12, 2019
in Personal Robots
#robotics #kids #learning +1 more
Publication Research

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.

Academic Paper, June 2018
in Personal Robots
#social robotics
Archived
Project Research

Relational AI

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

in Personal Robots · ML Learning
Jacqueline M Kory Westlund · Cynthia Breazeal +1 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #cognition +5 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Predicting Trust Between People

Machine learning model outperforms human judgementOur computational trust model is capable of predicting—above human accuracy—the degree ...

in Personal Robots
Rosalind W. Picard · Cynthia Breazeal +1 more
#artificial intelligence #data #social science +5 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Intentional Inference of Emotions

Emotion recognition modeled as a goal-directed process!

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Jin Joo Lee
#artificial intelligence #data #kids +6 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Human-Robot Trust

Unconventional mixing of research fields introduces a new method to study human behavior using social robots.

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Jin Joo Lee
#artificial intelligence #data #human-machine interaction +6 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Emotionally Aware Robot Teammates

Emotionally supportive robots improve overall team functioning!

in Personal Robots
Sigurdur Orn Adalgeirsson · Cynthia Breazeal +2 more
#robotics #human-machine interaction #social science +2 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Artificial listener with social intelligence

A social robot modifies its behavior to change what you think about it!

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Jin Joo Lee
#artificial intelligence #data #human-machine interaction +7 more
Archived
Article Research

I, Robot: Our changing relationship with technology

Kate Darling and other experts consider how our interactions with robots may change the way we engage not only with robots, but also people.

via Hidden Brain · Oct. 3, 2019
in Director's Office
#robotics #social robotics #technology
Article Research

Mabu the pint-sized robot wants to manage your health

Mabu is about the size of a kitchen appliance and assists with day-to-day healthcare needs through daily "conversations."

via PC Magazine · Sept. 26, 2019
in Personal Robots · Media Lab Spinoffs
#health #social robotics #technology
Project Research

P2PSTORY: Dataset of children as storytellers and listeners in peer-to-peer interactions

Understanding social-emotional behaviors in storytelling interactions plays a critical role in the development of interactive and educati...

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Nikhita Singh +2 more
#robotics #data #kids +5 more
Archived
Research
Advancing Wellbeing

Advancing Wellbeing

#design #virtual reality #human-computer interaction +25 more
Post Research

Robots, Gender, and the Design of Relational Technology

My latest research in Cynthia Breazeal's Personal Robots group has been on relational technology.

Aug. 12, 2019
in Personal Robots
#kids #learning #social robotics +1 more
Post Research

Social robots as social catalysts: Collaborating with older adults as design research partners

When they’re valued as design research partners, older adults feel empowered to contribute to technology design.

July 12, 2019
in Personal Robots
#human-machine interaction #social robotics #social change
Article Research

Meet 'Huggable,' the robot bear who's helping hospitalized kids

Cynthia Breazeal, head of the Personal Robots group, and her collaborators talk to US News about Huggable.

via US News · June 28, 2019
in Personal Robots
#health #social robotics
Article Research

Study: Social robots can benefit hospitalized children

Interacting with a robotic teddy bear invented at MIT boosted young patients’ positive emotions, engagement, and activity level.

via MIT News · June 26, 2019
in Advancing Wellbeing · Personal Robots
#health #social robotics
Project Research

Designing social robots for older adults

Most countries are projected to see the number of people ages 65 and older surpass the population under the age of 15 by 2050. The limita...

in Personal Robots
Anastasia Ostrowski · Nikhita Singh +2 more
#robotics #design #human-machine interaction +5 more
Article Research

It's time to study machines the way we study humans

A paper introduces machine behavior: the interdisciplinary study of AI systems as a new class of actors with unique behavioral patterns.

via News@Northeastern · April 24, 2019
in Human Dynamics · Personal Robots · Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #learning #social robotics
Project Research

RoboChain: A secure data-sharing framework for human-robot interaction

A learning framework for secure, decentralized, computationally efficient data and model sharing among multiple robot units installed at...

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Ognjen (Oggi) Rudovic +1 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #data +10 more
Project Research

Blockchain: A new framework for robotic swarm systems

Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make...

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Eduardo Castello Ferrer
#robotics #artificial intelligence #data +12 more
Project Research

Tools to investigate societal impacts of robots and AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents in an embodied form, such as Jibo, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are increasingly becoming part of o...

in Personal Robots
Anastasia Ostrowski · Hae Won Park +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +3 more
Project Research

Assessing Children's Relationships with Social Robots

Social robots are increasingly being developed for long-term interactions with children in domains such as healthcare, education, therapy...

in Personal Robots · ML Learning
Randi Williams · Cynthia Breazeal +2 more
#kids #social robotics #long-term interaction
Article Research

Why we should show machines some respect

Kate Darling explores the human implications of the ways we treat robots and other machines.

via Forbes · March 27, 2019
in Director's Office
#artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction #social robotics +1 more
Thesis Research

Talking Machines: Democratizing the Design of Voice-Based Agents for the Home

Thesis, June 2018
in Personal Robots
#robotics #design #consumer electronics +2 more
Article Research

Can you murder a robot?

Rosalind Picard and Kate Darling join other experts to discuss how and why humans empathize with machines.

via BBC News · March 17, 2019
in Director's Office · Affective Computing
#social robotics #technology
Article Research

Robots are becoming classroom tutors. But will they make the grade?

Mechanical mentors try to find their place as teacher’s helpers.

via ScienceNews · Feb. 12, 2019
in Personal Robots
#kids #learning #social robotics +1 more
Article Research

Designing social robots for older adults

Researchers present a user-centered design approach to creating intelligent social technologies to empower and help older adults at home.

via The National Academy of Engineering · March 13, 2019
in Personal Robots
#social robotics #technology
Post Research

EngageME chosen as an EU Research success story

The technology being developed can enable personalized interactions with an autistic child, helping therapists to engage their attention.

March 12, 2019
in Affective Computing
#robotics #health #social robotics +1 more
Archived
Project Research

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...

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

Personalized Machine Learning for Autism Therapy

EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a proj...

in Affective Computing
Ognjen (Oggi) Rudovic · Rosalind W. Picard
#robotics #human-computer interaction #health +9 more
Article Research

Teaching AI to preschoolers with Randi Williams

In the inaugural episode of the TWiML & AI Podcast’s Black in AI series, PhD student Randi Williams discusses her work with PopBots.

via This Week in Machine Learning & AI · Jan. 31, 2019
in Personal Robots
#learning #social robotics #technology
Publication Research

Personalized Machine Learning for Robot Perception of Affect and Engagement in Autism Therapy

Rudovic, O., Lee, J., Dai, M., Schuller, B. , Picard, R. W., " Personalized machine learning for robot perception of affect and engagement in autism therapy," Science Robotics, June 2018.

Academic Paper, June 2018
in Affective Computing
#human-machine interaction #social science #machine learning +4 more
Article Research

Hae Won Park, Personal Robots Group: Social robots for long-term interaction

Hae Won develops interactive social machines that deeply personalize to their users through long-term interaction.

via MIT ILP · Jan. 8, 2019
in Personal Robots
#learning #social robotics
Article Research

An interview with Cynthia Breazeal: IEEE VIC Summit 2018

Cynthia Breazeal sits down for an interview with Glenn Zorpette at the 2018 IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit.

via IEEEtv · Jan. 4, 2019
in Personal Robots
#social robotics #technology
Article Research

Intelligent robots could prove to be a boon for autism therapies

Social robots could potentially aid therapists working with autistic children in the future.

via Spectrum · Nov. 13, 2018
in Affective Computing
#artificial intelligence #social robotics
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