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HEART-felt Narratives: Tracing Empathy and Narrative Style in Personal Stories with LLMs

Jocelyn Shen, Joel Mire, Hae Won Park, Cynthia Breazeal, & Maarten Sap. “Heart-felt Narratives: Tracing Empathy and Narrative Style in Personal Stories with LLMs”. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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Empathy Toward Artificial Intelligence Versus Human Experiences and the Role of Transparency in Mental Health and Social Support Chatbot Des

Shen J, DiPaola D, Ali S, Sap M, Park H, Breazeal C. Empathy Toward Artificial Intelligence Versus Human Experiences and the Role of Transparency in Mental Health and Social Support Chatbot Design: Comparative Study. JMIR Ment Health 2024;11:e62679. URL: https://mental.jmir.org/2024/1/e62679. DOI: 10.2196/62679

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A HeARTfelt Robot: Social Robot-Driven Deep Emotional Art Reflection with Children

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Building spaces for design justice: A case study on the design justice pedagogy summit

Roeder, G., Das, M., Saadi, J.I., Harrington, C., Verma, A., Breazeal, C., D’Ignazio, C., Yang, M., & Ostrowski, A.K. 2024. Building spaces for design justice: A case study on the design justice pedagogy summit. Accepted to ASME 2024 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE2024).

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EmpathicStories++: A Multimodal Dataset for Empathy Towards Personal Experiences

Jocelyn Shen, Yubin Kim, Mohit Hulse, Wazeer Zulfikar, Sharifa Alghowinem, Cynthia Breazeal, and Hae Park. 2024. EmpathicStories++: A Multimodal Dataset for Empathy Towards Personal Experiences. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024, pages 4525–4536, Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting. Association for Computational Linguistics.

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How Policy Can Help Ensure the Proper Use of AI in K-12 Education

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Supporting Reflexivity and Action on Equity and Justice in Design Education: Insights from the Design Justice Pedagogy Summit

Ostrowski, A.K., Das, M., Roeder, G., Saadi. J.I., Harrington, C., Verma, A., Breazeal, C., D’Ignazio, C., & Yang, M. 2024. Supporting reflexivity and action on equity and justice in design education: Insights from the design justice pedagogy summit. Design Thinking Research Symposium (DTRS) 14.

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Promising directions for human-robot interactions defined by older adults

Ostrowski AK, Zhang J, Breazeal C and Park HW (2024) Promising directions for human-robot interactions defined by older adults. Front. Robot. AI 11:1289414. doi: 10.3389/frobt.2024.1289414

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Alleviating the Danger Of A Single Story Through Liberatory Computing Education

Raechel Walker, Olivia Dias, Matt Taylor, and Cynthia Breazeal, “Alleviating the Danger Of A Single Story Through Liberatory Computing Education,” in Proceedings of the 2024 RESPECT Annual Conference (RESPECT 2024), Atlanta, GA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA

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Adaptive Collaboration Strategy for LLMs in Medical Decision Making

Kim, Y., Park, C., Jeong, H., Chan, Y.S., Xu, X., McDuff, D., Breazeal, C. and Park, H.W., 2024. Adaptive Collaboration Strategy for LLMs in Medical Decision Making. arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.15155.

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Dr. R.O. Bott Will See You Now: Exploring AI for Wellbeing with Middle School Students

Williams, R.; and Breazeal, C. 2023. Dr. R.O. Bott Will See You Now: Exploring AI for Wellbeing with Middle School Students. In Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on Education Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI ’24). AAAI, Menlo Park, CA, USA.

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Impact.AI: Democratizing AI through K-12 Artificial Intelligence Education

Williams, R. (2024) Impact.AI: Democratizing AI through K-12 artificial intelligence education. [Doctoral dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology].

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Unveiling Voices: Boston Students' Data Activism Journey with Community Catalysts

R. Walker, S. Brady, O. Dias, A. Castillo, K. Asfaw, E. Johnson, M. Taylor, and C. Breazeal , "Unveiling Voices: Boston Students' Data Activism Journey with Community Catalysts," in Black Issues in Computing Education Symposium 2024, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2024

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Design justice strategies for design education: Evidence and recommendation from syllabus analysis

Ostrowski, A.K., Zhang, J., Das, M., Breazeal, C., D’Ignazio, C., Verma, A., & Yang, M. Design justice strategies for design education. Accepted to ASME 2023 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE2023); Track: 35th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (DTM).

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Barriers, resources, and changes of social, policy, and ethical considerations in design education

Saadi, J.I., Roeder, G., Das, M., Ostrowski, A.K., Breazeal, C., D’Ignazio, C., Verma, A., & Yang, M. Barriers, resources, and changes of social, policy, and ethical considerations in design education. Accepted to ASME 2023 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE2023); Track: 35th International Conference on Design The

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How and why instructors include and exclude social, policy, and ethical considerations in design education

Das, M., Saadi, J.I., Santos, M., Roeder, G., Ostrowski, A.K., Lee, S., Breazeal, C., D’Ignazio, C., Yang, M., & Verma, A. How and why instructors include and exclude social, policy, and ethical considerations in design education. Accepted to the 24th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED) 2023.

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A Conversational Agent for Dynamic Procedural Interactions

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Children's Fundamental Rights in Human-Robot Interaction Research: A Systematic Review

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).

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Make-a-Thon for Middle School AI Educators

DiPaola, D., Moore, K. S., Ali, S., Perret, B., Zhou, X., Zhang, H., & Lee, I. (2023, March). Make-a-Thon for Middle School AI Educators. In Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1 (pp. 305-311).

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Affective Typography: The Effect of AI-Driven Font Design on Empathetic Story Reading

Shen, J., Jin, K., Zhang, A., Breazeal, C., and Park, H. 2023. Affective Typography: The Effect of AI-Driven Font Design on Empathetic Story Reading. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’23), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 11 pages.

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Impact.AI: Democratizing AI through K-12 Artificial Intelligence Education

Williams, Randi. Impact.AI: democratizing AI through K-12 artificial intelligence education. Dissertation Proposal. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023.

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AI Audit: A Card Game to Reflect on Everyday AI Systems

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Engage Teacher Leaders to Design Inclusive and Inquiry-Based Practices: Rethinking the Use of Artificial Intelligence

Du, X., & Breazeal, C. (2022). Engage Teacher Leaders to Design Inclusive and Inquiry-Based Practices: Rethinking the Use of Artificial Intelligence. In C. Webb, & A. Lindner (Ed.), Preparing Pre-Service Teachers to Integrate Technology in K-12 Classrooms: Standards and Best Practices (pp. 93-113). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-5478-7.ch006

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LevelUp – Automatic Assessment of Block-Based Machine Learning Projects for AI Education

T. Reddy, R. Williams and C. Breazeal, "LevelUp – Automatic Assessment of Block-Based Machine Learning Projects for AI Education," 2022 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), 2022, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/VL/HCC53370.2022.9833130.

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Ethics, Equity, & Justice in Human-Robot Interaction: A Review and Future Directions

Ostrowski, A.K., Walker, R., Das., M., Yang, M., Breazeal, C., Park, H.W., & Verma, A., (2022). Ethics, equity, & justice in human-robot interaction: A review and future directions. In Proceedings of 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication.

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What Do We Mean When We Write About Ethics, Equity, And Justice In Engineering Design?

Das, M., Roeder, G., Ostrowski, A.K., Yang, M., & Verma, A. (2022). What Do We Mean When We Write About Ethics, Equity, And Justice In Engineering Design? Proceedings of the ASME 2022 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE2022

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AI + Ethics Curricula for Middle School Youth: Lessons Learned from Three Project‑Based Curricula

Williams, R., Ali, S., Devasia, N. et al. AI + Ethics Curricula for Middle School Youth: Lessons Learned from Three Project-Based Curricula. Int J Artif Intell Educ (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-022-00298-y

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Designing and Deploying Robotic Companions to Improve Human Psychological Wellbeing

Jeong, S. (2022). Designing and Deploying Robotic Companions to Improve Human Psychological Wellbeing [Doctoral Dissertation]. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Escape!bot. Social Robots as Creative Problem-solving Partners

Ali, S., Devasia, N. E., & Breazeal, C. (2022, June). Escape! Bot: Social Robots as Creative Problem-Solving Partners. In Creativity and Cognition (pp. 275-283). 🏆 Paper received honorable mention award!

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Exploring changes in special education teachers’ attitudes and design belief towards pedagogical agents in co-designing with children

Du, X., & Breazeal, C. (2022, June). Exploring changes in special education teachers’ attitudes and design belief towards pedagogical agents in co-designing with children. In Interaction Design and Children (pp. 472-478).

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Designing Long-term Parent-child-robot Triadic Interaction at Home through Lived Technology Experiences and Interviews

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)

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Dyadic Affect in Parent-child Multi-modal Interaction: Introducing the DAMI-P2C Dataset and its Preliminary Analysis

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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Dyadic Affect in Parent-child Multi-modal Interaction: Introducing the DAMI-P2C Dataset and its Preliminary Analysis

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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Computational Thinking Education in K–12

Harold Abelson and Siu-Cheung Kong. Computational Thinking Education in K–12. MIT Press, May 2022.

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Auditing design justice: The impact of social movements on design pedagogy at a technology institution

Das, M., Ostrowski, A.K., Ben-David, S., Roeder, G.J., Kimura, K., D'Ignazio, C., Breazeal, C., & Verma, A. (2022, March). Auditing design justice: The impact of social movements on design pedagogy at a technology institution. In 2022 Design Thinking Research Symposium. (pp. 121-138). DesignTech, Faculty of Architecture & Town Planning Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 2022

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How do older adults engage as robot co-designers? Rapid prototyping supported by lived experiences with technology

Ostrowski, A.K., Breazeal, C., & Park, H.W. (2022, March). How do older adults engage as robot co-designers? Rapid prototyping supported by lived experiences with technology. In 2022 Design Thinking Research Symposium. (pp. 121-138). DesignTech, Faculty of Architecture & Town Planning Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 2022

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Mixed-Method Long-Term Robot Usage: Older Adults’ Lived Experience of Social Robots

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.

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HRI Pioneers: Design Justice for Robot Design and Policy Making

Ostrowski, A. K. & Breazeal, C. (2022, March). Design Justice for Robot Design and Policy Making. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

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Children's Perspectives of Advertising with Social Robots: a Policy Investigation

DiPaola, D., Ostrowski, A. K., Spiegel, R., Darling, K., & Breazeal, C. (2022, March). Children's Perspectives of Advertising with Social Robots: a Policy Investigation. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

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Speed Dating with Voice User Interfaces: Understanding How Families Interact and Perceive Voice User Interfaces in a Group Setting

Ostrowski, A. K., Fu, J., Zygouras, V., Park, H. W., & Breazeal, C. Speed Dating with Voice User Interfaces (VUIs): Understanding How Families Interact and Perceive VUIs in a Group Setting. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 375.

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Body Gesture and Head Movement Analyses in Dyadic Parent-Child Interaction as Indicators of Relationship

Alghowinem, S., Chen, H., Breazeal, C., & Park, H. W. (2021, December). Body Gesture and Head Movement Analyses in Dyadic Parent-Child Interaction as Indicators of Relationship. In 2021 16th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2021) (pp. 01-05). IEEE.

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Personal Narratives in Technology Design: The Value of Sharing Older Adults’ Stories in the Design of Social Robots

Ostrowski, A. K., Harrington, C.N., Breazeal, C., & Park, H. W. (2021). Personal Narratives in Technology Design: The Value of Sharing Older Adults' Stories in the Design of Social Robots. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 315.

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Long-Term Co-Design Guidelines: Empowering Older Adults as Co-Designers of Social Robots

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.

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Collection of Metaphors for Human-Robot Interaction

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).

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Lifelong Personalization via Gaussian Process Modeling for Long-Term HRI

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

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Designing building blocks for open-ended early literacy software

Sysoev, Ivan, et al. "Designing building blocks for open-ended early literacy software." International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction 28 (2021)

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Exploring Generative Models with Middle School Students

Safinah Ali, Daniella DiPaola, Irene Lee, Jenna Hong, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2021. Exploring Generative Models with Middle School Students. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21), May 8–13, 2021, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA 13 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445226

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Towards Transferrable Personalized Student Models in Educational Games

Spaulding, S., Shen, J., Park, H., & Breazeal, C. (2021, May). Towards Transferrable Personalized Student Models in Educational Games. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (pp. 1245-1253).

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Exploring Generative Models with Middle School Students

Ali, S., DiPaola, D., Lee, I., Hong, J., & Breazeal, C. (2021, May). Exploring Generative Models with Middle School Students. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13).

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Text Classification for AI Education

Tejal Reddy, Randi Williams, Cynthia Breazeal. 2021. Text Classification for AI Education. In Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE’21).

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Small Group Interactions with Voice-User Interfaces: Exploring Social Embodiment, Rapport, and Engagement

Ostrowski, A. K., Zygouras, V., Park, H. W., & Breazeal, C. (2021, March). Small Group Interactions with Voice-User Interfaces: Exploring Social Embodiment, Rapport, and Engagement. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 322-331).

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Practical Guidelines for Intent Recognition: BERT with Minimal Training Data Evaluated in Real-World HRI Application

Huggins, Matthew, et al. "Practical Guidelines for Intent Recognition: BERT with Minimal Training Data Evaluated in Real-World HRI Application." Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2021.

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Teacher Perspectives on How to Train Your Robot, A Middle School AI and Ethics Curriculum

Williams, R., Kaputsos, S.P., Breazeal, C. Teacher Perspectives on How to Train Your Robot, A Middle School AI and Ethics Curriculum. Proceedings of the 10th Symposium on Education Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI ’21). 2021.

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Dyadic Speech-based Affect Recognition usingDAMI-P2C Parent-child Multimodal Interaction Dataset

Chen, Huili, et al. "Dyadic speech-based affect recognition using dami-p2c parent-child multimodal interaction dataset." Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. 2020.

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Dyadic Speech-based Affect Recognition using DAMI-P2C Parent-child Multimodal Interaction Datase

Chen, H., Zhang, Y., Weninger, F., Picard, R., Breazeal, C., & Park, H. W. (2020, October). Dyadic speech-based affect recognition using dami-p2c parent-child multimodal interaction dataset. In Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 97-106).

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Design Research in HRI: Roboticists, Design Features, and Users as Co-Designers

Ostrowski, A.K., Breazeal, C., & Park, H.W. 2020. Design research in HRI: Roboticists, design features, and users as co-designers. IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication 2021 Workshop on Designerly HRI Knowledge

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A Robotic Positive Psychology Coach to Improve College Students’ Wellbeing

Jeong, Sooyeon, et al. "A Robotic Positive Psychology Coach to Improve College Students’ Wellbeing." Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man 2020) **Best Paper Award**

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Toward Designing User-centered Idle Behaviors for Social Robots in the Home

Arias, Kika., Jeong, Sooyeon., Park, Hae Won., Breazeal, Cynthia., "Toward Designing User-centered Idle Behaviors for Social Robots in the Home.", 1st international workshop on Designerly HRI Knowledge. Held in conjunction with the 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020)

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Migratable AI: Effect of identity and information migration on users’ perception of conversational AI agents

Tejwani, Ravi, et al. "Migratable AI: Effect of identity and information migration on users’ perception of conversational AI agents." Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2020

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How to Train Your Robot: A Middle School AI and Ethics Curriculum

Williams, R., & Breazeal, C. (2020). How to Train Your Robot: A Middle School AI and Ethics Curriculum. . Presented in the International Workshop on Education in Artificial Intelligence K-12 (EDUAI ’20).

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Teaching and learning with children: Impact of reciprocal peer learning with a social robot on children’s learning and emotive engagement

Huili Chen, Hae Won Park, Cynthia Breazeal, Teaching and learning with children: Impact of reciprocal peer learning with a social robot on children’s learning and emotive engagement, Computers & Education, Volume 150, 2020, 103836, ISSN 0360-1315, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2020.103836.

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Impact of Interaction Context on the Student Affect-Learning Relationship in Child-Robot Interaction

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

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Impact of Interaction Context on the Student Affect-Learning Relationship in Child-Robot Interaction

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

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Constructionism, Ethics, and Creativity: Developing Primary and Middle School Artificial Intelligence Education

Ali, S., Williams, R., Payne B., Park H., Breazeal C. (2019) Constructionism, Ethics, and Creativity: Developing Primary and Middle School Artificial Intelligence Education. Presented in the International Workshop on Education in Artificiation Intelligence K-12 (EDUAI ’19). Palo Alto, CA, USA. Proceedings of IJCAI 2019.

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Social Robots for Hospitalized Children

Logan, Deirdre, et al. "Social Robots for Hospitalized Children." Pediatrics 143.6 (2019).

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Assessing Children's Perception and Acceptance of a Social Robot

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.