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Cynthia Breazeal

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; MIT Dean for Digital Learning
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Interactive Storybooks for Early AI Literacy

Children today are more digitally connected than ever before, with increasing exposure to tablets, social media, and smartphones. As techno…
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A HeARTfelt Robot: Social Robot-Driven Deep Emotional Art Reflection with Children

In "A HeARTfelt Robot", we designed a social robot interaction for children age 7-11 that helped them practice their social-emotional learn…
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Social Robots for Social-Emotional Learning for Arabic Speakers

This project aimed at enhancing the social-emotional and educational experiences of Arabic-speaking refugee children. The project leverages…
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PyTutor: Empowering Equitable Education Pathways in Computing with Generative AI

PyTutor, is a collaborative initiative between MIT, Georgia State University (GSU), and Quinsigamond Community College (QCC) to leverage ge…
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MDAgents: Adaptive Collaboration Strategy for LLMs in Medical Decision Making

Foundation models have become invaluable in advancing the medical field. Despite their promise, the strategic deployment of LLMs for effect…
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HRI Equitable Design Workshops

In a series of design workshops, the HRI Equitable Design framework from previous work (see Ostrowski et al. 2022) was expanded to a worksh…
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Wearable Device-assisted Emotional Wellbeing Intervention with a Social Robot

Emotional wellbeing is an important indicator of overall health and poor emotional wellbeing can equally adversely affect one's overal…
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A Taxonomy and Annotation Tool for Common Social Reasoning

We posit that robots in human-robot interaction, despite differences in embodiment, roles and tasks, require a common set of social reasoni…
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Data Activism Program

My name is Raechel Walker. I'm a PhD student in the Personal Robots group. Here is a short description of my Data Activism Program:The Data…
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Interactive Stories for Learning AI and Programming in Preschool

Today's children will live in a world saturated with artificial intelligence. Understanding the key idea behind the functioning of intellig…
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Designing Personalized AI Agents to Foster Human-Human Connections

Research OverviewAs artificial intelligence (AI) devices become more common in our homes, concerns about their potential harm to human-huma…
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Impact of Education on Child-Robot Relationships

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

​We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…
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Robot Policy Design Toolkit

Increasingly, devices designed with artificial intelligence (AI), such as robots or smart speakers, are entering people’s homes, workspaces…
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AI + Data Privacy Activities for K-9 Students

Policymakers, practitioners, and researchers are grappling with some herculean questions regarding kids' safety online. Homemade slime…
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Creative AI: A curriculum around creativity, generative AI, and ethics

As the presence of artificial intelligence expands significantly in children’s lives of learning and play, it is critical that students lea…
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Co-Design of Social Robots with Older Adults

Social robots equipped with AI and designed with users’ social, emotional, and relational interactions in mind are increasingly being highl…
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How to Train Your Robot

How to Train Your Robot is a curriculum for students in 5-8th grade to explore artificial intelligence and ethics. In this course, students…
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Social Robots for Children with Autism

Families with ASD often struggle with social and emotional communication. This work explores the role of an embodied agent (a social robot)…
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Doodle Bot - Creative AI learning

Doodle Bot is a robot-based creative AI learning platform for high school students. It consists of an introduction to robotics, hardware, s…
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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 outc…
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AI + Ethics Curriculum for Middle School

How do we raise conscientious consumers and designers of AI?Children today live in the age of artificial intelligence. On average, US child…
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Jibo Social Robotic Research Platform

The Jibo Research Platform is an in-the-field deployable Social Robotics experimentation and data collection infrastructure. Built upon the…
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Engagement with Voice-User Interface Agents

Voice-user interfaces (VUIs), such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, are increasingly becoming present in domestic environments. Us…
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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 our…
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Cognimates: Collaborative creative learning with embodied intelligent agents

Cognimates is a platform where parents and children (7-10 years old) participate in creative programming activities in which they lea…
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Talking Machines: Democratizing the design of voice-based agents for the home

Embodied voice-based agents, such as Amazon’s Echo, Google Home, and Jibo, are becoming increasingly present in the home environment. For m…
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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, …
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Text-to-Motion: Automatic sequencing of animative robot motions

Text-to-Motion generates a sequence of contingent robot animations to accompany the sentiment analyzed from an input sentence and its spoke…
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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 education…
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Realtime Detection of Social Cues

Realtime detection of social cues in children’s voicesIn everyday conversation, people use what are known as backchannels to signal to some…
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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 limitati…
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Personalized Interaction for Language Learning

The process by which children learn native languages is markedly different from the process of learning a second, or non-native, language. …
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Curious Learning: Understanding learning behaviors for early literacy

Early literacy plays an important role in a child's future. However, the reality is that over 57 million children have no access to a schoo…
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Personalized Robot Storytelling Companion

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

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