LocationIEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)OrganizersJacqueline Kory Westlund, Personal Robo…

This will be a virtual event as part of the 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2022)While most research…

Huili Chen, Anastasia K. Ostrowski, Soo Jung Jang, Cynthia Breazeal and Hae Won Park (2022). Designing Long-term Parent-child-robot Triadic Interaction at Home through Lived Technology Experiences and Interviews. In the proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022)

Setapen, A. "Creating Robotic Characters for Long-Term Interaction"

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.

Kory Westlund, J. M., Park, H. W.., Wiliams, R., & Breazeal, C. (2017). Measuring Children’s Long-Term Relationships with Social Robots. Workshop on Perception and Interaction dynamics in Child-Robot Interaction, held in conjunction with the Robotics: Science and Systems XIII.

C. Kidd, C. Breazeal

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

Kidd, C. "Designing for Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction and Application to Weight Loss"

Ostrowski, A. K., Breazeal, C., & Park, H.W. (2022, March). Mixed-Method Long-Term Robot Usage: Older Adults’ Lived Experience of Social Robots. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

In the last three decades, East Boston has received immigrants from many places in Latin America, especially Colombia. The MIT Colombian As…

DragonBot is a new platform built to support long-term interactions between children and robots. The robot runs entirely on an Android cell…

Ostrowski, A. K., Breazeal. C., & Park, H. W. (2021, August). Long-Term Co-Design Guidelines: Empowering Older Adults as Co-Designers of Social Robots. In 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication.

Spaulding S, Shen J, Park HW, Breazeal C. Lifelong Personalization via Gaussian Process Modeling for Long-Term HRI. Front Robot AI. 2021;8. doi:10.3389/frobt.2021.683066

Huili Chen, Hae Won Park, Xiajie Zhang, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2020. Impact of Interaction Context on the Student Affect-Learning Relationship in Child-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’20), March 23– 26, 2020, Cambridge, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3319502.3374822

Ostrowski, A.K., DiPaola, D., Partridge E., Park, H.W., & Breazeal, C. (2019). Older Adults Living with Social Robots: Promoting Social Connectedness in Long-Term Communities. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. doi: 10.1109/MRA.2019.2905234

Spaulding, S., Shen, J., Park, H. W., & Breazeal, C. (2021). Lifelong Personalization via Gaussian Process Modeling for Long-Term HRI. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 8, 152.

DiPaola, D., Charisi, V., Breazeal, C., & Sabanovic, S. (2023, March). Children's Fundamental Rights in Human-Robot Interaction Research: A Systematic Review. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 561-566).

Huili Chen, Hae Won Park, Xiajie Zhang, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2020. Impact of Interaction Context on the Student Affect-Learning Relationship in Child-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’20) https://doi.org/10.1145/3319502.3374822

Spaulding, Samuel, and Cynthia Breazeal. "Pronunciation-based child-robot game interactions to promote literacy skills." 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). IEEE, 2019.

Personal RobotsThe Personal Robots group bridges the gap between intelligent personified technologies and human collaborative behavior. We …

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; MIT Dean for Digital Learning

 DescriptionMeaningful conversations and genuine engagement rely on trust that goes beyond just words. In participatory dialogue, trus…

Ryan Wistort, Cynthia Breazeal

Former Research Assistant

Ferguson, C.* and Lewis, R.*, Wilks, C., Picard, R.W.; The Guardians: Designing a Game for Long-term Engagement with Mental Health Therapy; IEEE Conference of Games 2021. *Equal contribution

Timothy Bickmore, Rosalind W. Picard

Kory-Westlund, J. M., & Breazeal, C. (2019). Assessing Children's Perception and Acceptance of a Social Robot. Proceedings of the 18th ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC) (pp. 38-50). ACM: New York, NY.

A one-day ACM CHI'22 workshop co-organized by TMG researchers on actuated materials and soft robotics in HCI

M. Rathnasabapathy, M. Slavin, D. Wood, "Role of emerging nations in ensuring long-term space sustainability." Acta Astronautica, 2024.

Former Administrative Assistant

Vemuri, S. "Personal Long-Term Memory Aids"

Zisook, M., Hernandez, J., Goodwin, M.S., and Picard, R. W., "Enabling Visual Exploration of Long-term Physiological Data,"In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, October 2013.

Miriam Zisook, Javier Hernandez, Matthew S. Goodwin, Rosalind W. Picard

 

Kory Westlund, J. (2015). Telling Stories with Green the DragonBot: A Showcase of Children's Interactions Over Two Months. In J. A. Adams, W. Smart, B. Mutlu, & L. Takayama (Eds.), Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction: Extended Abstracts (p. 263).

Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audio-…

Hoda Eydgahi, Clayton Williams, Richard R. Fletcher, Rosalind W. Picard

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).

Recent advancements in autonomous and intelligent machines introduce an unprecedented opportunity to reimagine how people live, work, and p…

Hernandez, J., Hoque, M. E., Picard, R.W., "Mood Meter: Large-Scale and Long-Term Smile Monitoring System", ACM SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies, August 2012.

Ming-Zher Poh, N.C. Swenson, Rosalind W. Picard

Ming-Zher Poh, T. Loddenkemper, N. C. Swenson, M. C. Sabtala, J. R. Madsen, Rosalind W. Picard

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).

Technologies designed with personalities and social interfaces are entering our homes in the form of social robots such as Jibo and Cozmo. …

Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Maria Luce Lupetti, Michal Luria, Diana Löffler, Mafalda Gamboa, Lea Albaugh, Waki Kamino, Anastasia K. Ostrowski, David Puljiz, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Marcus Scheunemann, & Dan Lockton. 2021, June. Collection of Metaphors for Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021 (pp. 1366-1379).

H. Chen, S. M. Alghowinem, S. J. Jang, C. Breazeal and H. W. Park, "Dyadic Affect in Parent-child Multi-modal Interaction: Introducing the DAMI-P2C Dataset and its Preliminary Analysis," in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, doi: 10.1109/TAFFC.2022.3178689.

Bochenek, M., et al. Alginate encapsulation as long-term immune protection of allogeneic pancreatic islet cells transplanted into the omental bursa of macaques, Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2: 810-821, 2018.

H. Chen, S. M. Alghowinem, S. J. Jang, C. Breazeal and H. W. Park, "Dyadic Affect in Parent-child Multi-modal Interaction: Introducing the DAMI-P2C Dataset and its Preliminary Analysis," in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, doi: 10.1109/TAFFC.2022.3178689.

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

Soroush Vosoughi, Matthew S. Goodwin

Space travel and becoming an interplanetary species have always been part of humanity’s greatest imaginings.

Vegas, A., et al. Long-term glycemic control using polymer-encapsulated human stem cell–derived beta cells in immune-competent mice, Nature Medicine, 22: 306 211, 2016. PMCID: PMC4825868

Rathnasabapathy, Wood, Jah, Howard, French, Christensen, Schiller, Letizia, Krag, Lemmens, Khlystov, Soshkin, "Space Sustainability Rating: Towards An Assessment Tool To Assuring The Long-Term Sustainability Of The Space Environment, " Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, October 2019, Washington DC.

LocationMIT Media Lab, Bartos Theatre DescriptionOn September 15-16, 2009, the MIT Media Laboratory will host a first-of-its-kind workshop …

LocationMIT Media Lab, Room TBA DescriptionIn this workshop, we describe design principles employed in the development of wearable robots t…

LocationMIT Media Lab, Room TBA DescriptionWe will present future visions of Human Computer Interactions that integrate the body, objects, …

Rathnasabapathy, Minoo, Danielle Wood, Francesca Letizia, Stijn Lemmens, Moriba Jah, Simon Potter, Nikolai Khlystov et al. "Implementing the space sustainability rating: an innovative tool to foster long-term sustainability in orbit." In 72nd International Astronautical Congress, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 25–29 October. 2021.

Kory Westlund, J. M., Lee, J., Plummer, L., Faridia, F., Gray, J., Berlin, M., Quintus-Bosz, H., Harmann, R., Hess, M., Dyer, S., dos Santos, K., Adalgeirsson, S., Gordon, G., Spaulding, S., Martinez, M., Das, M., Archie, M., Jeong, S., & Breazeal, C. (2016). Tega: A Social Robot. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction: Video Presentations.

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

Rathnasabapathy, Minoo, Danielle Wood, Francesca Letizia, Stijn Lemmens, Moriba Jah, Aschley Schiller, Carissa Christensen, Simon Potter, Nikolai Khlystov, Maksim Soshkin, Krisit Acuff, Miles Lifson, Riley Steindl. "Space Sustainability Rating: Designing a Composite Indicator to Incentivise Satellite Operators to Pursue Long-Term Sustainability of the Space Environment." IAC 2020.

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