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Discovering You: Engineering Your World - Hae Won Park

Hae Won Park

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Nov. 12, 2019

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Hae Won Park is an engineer at the Personal Robots group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is building robots to help children learn language skills. "Discovering You: Engineering Your World" is produced by NBC News Learn in partnership with Chevron, the American Society for Engineering Education and the National Science Foundation.

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A Model-free Affective Reinforcement Learning Approach to Personalization of a Social Robot Companion for Early Literacy Education

Hae Won Park, Ishaan Grover, Samuel Spaulding, Louis Gomez, and Cynthia Breazeal. “A Model- free Affective Reinforcement Learning Approach to Personalization of a Social Robot Companion for Early Literacy Education” In Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2019.

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Telling Stories to Robots: The Effect of Backchanneling on a Child's Storytelling

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).

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Workshop on Long-Term Child-Robot Interaction

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