Hae Won Park
Capable language models can outgrow the benefits of collaboration
Kim, Y., Gu, K., Park, C., Park, C., Schmidgall, S., Heydari, A. A., Yan, Y., Zhang, Z., Zhuang, Y., Liu, Y., Malhotra, M., Liang, P. P., Park, H. W., Yang, Y., Xu, X., Du, Y., Patel, S., Althoff, T., McDuff, D., & Liu, X. (2026). Capable language models can outgrow the benefits of collaboration. Nature Machine Intelligence, 8, 1157–1172. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-026-01268-y
Modeling Empathic Similarity in Personal Narratives
Jocelyn Shen, Maarten Sap, Pedro Colon-Hernandez, Hae Park, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2023. Modeling Empathic Similarity in Personal Narratives. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 6237–6252, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Designing Conversational Agents for Emotional Self-Awareness
J. Shen, K. Lecamwasam, H. W. Park, C. Breazeal and R. Picard, "Designing Conversational Agents for Emotional Self-Awareness," 2023 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW), Cambridge, MA, USA, 2023, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ACIIW59127.2023.10388072.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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).
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).
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.
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
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)
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**
Promoting Wellbeing with Sunny, a Chatbot that Facilitates Positive Messages between Members of Social Groups
Narain, J.*, Quach, T.*, Davey, M.*, Park, H., Braezeal, C., and Picard, R. "Promoting Wellbeing with Sunny, a Chatbot that Facilitates Positive Messages within Social Groups". Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Accepted. *Equal Contribution.
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
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.
A is for Artificial Intelligence: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence Activities on Young Children’s Perceptions of Robots
Randi Williams, Hae Won Park, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2019. A is for Artificial Intelligence. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI ’19). ACM, New York, NY, USA.
Older Adults Living With Social Robots: Promoting Social Connectedness in Long-Term Communities
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
Personalized Estimation of Engagement from Videos Using Active Learning with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Rudovic, O., Park, H-W., Busche, J., Schuller, B. , Breazeal, C., Picard, R. W., " Personalized Estimation of Engagement from Videos Using Active Learning with Deep Reinforcement Learning," IEEE CVPR -AMFG W, June 2019.
Designing Social Robots for Older Adults
Breazeal, Cynthia L. , Ostrowski, Anastasia K., Singh, N., & Park, Hae Won. (2019). Designing social robots for older adults. National Academy of Engineering The Bridge, 49 (1), 22-31.
PopBots: Designing an Artificial Intelligence Curriculum for Early Childhood Education
Randi Williams, Hae Won Park, Lauren Oh, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2019. PopBots: Designing an Artificial Intelligence Curriculum for Early Childhood Education. In Proceedings of the 9th Symposium on Education Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI '19). AAAI, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
How smart are the smart toys?: Children’s and parents’ attributions of intelligence to computational objects
Stefania Druga, Randi Williams, Hae Won Park, Cynthia Breazeal. "How smart are the smart toys?: Children’s and parents’ attributions of intelligence to computational objects.” IDC. 2018
Measuring Young Children’s Long-Term Relationships with Social Robots
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.
Measuring Children's Long-Term Relationships with Social Robots
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.
Backchannel Opportunity Prediction for Social Robot Listeners
HW Park, M Gelsomini, JJ Lee, T Zhu, and C Breazeal (2017). Backchannel Opportunity Prediction for Social Robot Listeners. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
Growing Growth Mindset with a Social Robot Peer
Hae Won Park, Rinat Rosenberg-Kima, Maor Rosenberg, Goren Gordon, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2017. Growing Growth Mindset with a Social Robot Peer. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '17). ACM, New York
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).
Lifelong Personalization via Gaussian Process Modeling for Long-Term HRI
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.