Past Member

Randi Williams

Former Research Assistant
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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.

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“My Doll Says It's OK”: A Study of Children's Conformity to a Talking Doll

Randi Williams, Christian Vazquez, Stefania Druga, Pattie Maes, Cynthia Breazeal. “My Doll Says It's OK: Voice-Enabled Toy Influences Children's Moral Decisions.” IDC. 2018

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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

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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.

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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.

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"Hey Google is it OK if I eat you?" Initial Explorations in Child-Agent Interactions

Stefania Druga, Randi Williams, Cynthia Breazeal, and Mitchel Resnick. 2017. "Hey Google is it OK if I eat you?": Initial Explorations in Child-Agent Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 595-600. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3078072.3084330

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“Hey Google is it OK if I eat you?” Initial Explorations in Child-Agent Interaction

Druga S, Williams R, “Hey Google is it OK if I eat you?” Initial Explorations in Child-Agent Interaction, IDC Stanford, 2017

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Leveraging Social Robots to Aid Preschool Children’s Artificial Intelligence Education

Williams, R. C. (2018). PopBots: Leveraging Social Robots to Aid Preschool Children’s Artificial Intelligence Education.