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Joanne Leong

Graduate Student
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Generative AI-Enabled Context Personalization for Vocabulary Learning

Fostering students' interests in learning is considered to have many positive downstream effects. Large language models have opened up new …
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AI-Generated Virtual Instructors Based on Liked or Admired People Can Improve Motivation and Foster Positive Emotions for Learning

This research presents the results of a study with 134 participants to explore the effects of learning from an AI-generated virtual in…
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"Picture the Audience" Exploring Private AR Face Filters for Online Public Speaking

This work was presented  at  the ACM CHI 2023 conference. By Joanne Leong, Florian Perteneder, Muhender Raj Rajvee, and…
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AI-generated Characters for Learning and Wellbeing

Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…
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Wemoji: Towards Designing Complementary Communication Systems in Augmented Reality

This project was produced as part of the   2021 Snap Creative Challenge, focused on "The Future of Co-located Social AR."Wem…
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iNonymize: Empathetic Anonymity in Tele-Mental Health Using AI Generated Avatars

This project was selected to represent MIT at the Microsoft Design Expo 2020 on ‘Healthier Futures.’ iNonymizeA tele-mental health pla…
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(Dis)Appearables

by Ken Nakagaki, Jordan L Tappa, Yi Zheng*, Joanne Leong, Jack Forman, Sven Koenig*, and Hiroshi Ishii*Collaborators at the Unive…
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HERMITS: Mechanical Shells for Robotic TUIs (Ars Electronica 2020)

'Shells, often found on seashores, exemplifies the absence of existed lives. What if a presence dwells in to animate them?'Projec…
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HERMITS: ‘Mechanical Shells’ for Robotic Tangible UIs

By Ken Nakagaki, Joanne Leong, Jordan L Tappa, Joao Wilbert, and Hiroshi IshiiOverviewProject HERMITS explores a way to greatly a…