Past Member

Sooyeon Jeong

Former Research Assistant
Publication

Designing and Deploying Robotic Companions to Improve Human Psychological Wellbeing

Jeong, S. (2022). Designing and Deploying Robotic Companions to Improve Human Psychological Wellbeing [Doctoral Dissertation]. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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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.

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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)

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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**

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Social Robots for Hospitalized Children

Logan, Deirdre, et al. "Social Robots for Hospitalized Children." Pediatrics 143.6 (2019).

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Huggable: The Impact of Embodiment on Promoting Socio-emotional Interactions for Young Pediatric Inpatients

Jeong, Sooyeon, et al. "Huggable: The Impact of Embodiment on Promoting Socio-emotional Interactions for Young Pediatric Inpatients." Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2018.

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Children use non-verbal cues to learn new words from robots as well as people

Kory Westlund., J. M., Dickens, L., Jeong, S., Harris, P. L., DeSteno, D., & Breazeal, C. L. (2017). Children use non-verbal cues to learn new words from robots as well as people. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction.

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Toward Robotic Companions that Enhance Psychological Wellbeing with Smartphone Technology

Jeong, Sooyeon, and Cynthia Breazeal. "Toward Robotic Companions that Enhance Psychological Wellbeing with Smartphone Technology." Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. ACM, 2017.

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Improving Smartphone Users’ Affect and Wellbeing with Personalized Positive Psychology Interventions

Jeong, Sooyeon, and Cynthia Lynn Breazeal. "Improving Smartphone Users' Affect and Wellbeing with Personalized Positive Psychology Interventions." Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Human Agent Interaction. ACM, 2016.

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Tega, A Social Robot

Kory Westlund, J. M., Lee, J., Plummer, L., Faridia, F., Gray, J., Berlin, M., Quintus-Bosz, H., Harmann, R., Hess, M., Dyer, S., dos Santos, K., Adalgeirsson, S., Gordon, G., Spaulding, S., Martinez, M., Das, M., Archie, M., Jeong, S., & Breazeal, C. (2016). Tega: A Social Robot. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction: Video Presentations.

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Young children treat robots as informants

Breazeal, C., Harris, P., DeSteno, D., Kory, J., Dickens, L., & Jeong, S. (2016). Young children treat robots as informants. Topics in Cognitive Science, pp. 1-11.

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A Comparison of children learning from robots, tablets, and people

Kory Westlund, J., Dickens, L., Jeong, S., Harris, P., DeSteno, D., & Breazeal, C. (2015). A Comparison of children learning from robots, tablets, and people. In Proceedings of New Friends: The 1st International Conference on Social Robots in Therapy and Education.

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Designing a Socially Assistive Robot for Pediatric Care

Jeong, Sooyeon, et al. "Designing a socially assistive robot for pediatric care." Proceedings of the 14th international conference on interaction design and children. ACM, 2015.

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A Social Robot to Mitigate Stress, Anxiety, and Pain in Hospital Pediatric Care

Jeong, Sooyeon, et al. "A social robot to mitigate stress, anxiety, and pain in hospital pediatric care." Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extended Abstracts. ACM, 2015.

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Robotic learning companions for early language development

Kory, J., Jeong, S., & Breazeal, C. L. (2013). Robotic learning companions for early language development. In J. Epps, F. Chen, S. Oviatt, & K. Mase (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th ACM on International conference on multimodal interaction, (pp. 71-72). ACM: New York, NY.