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#design #virtual reality #cognition +22 more
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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.

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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

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Storytelling Companion

Children’s oral language skills in preschool can predict their academic success later in life. Helping children improve their language an...

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Jacqueline M Kory Westlund
#robotics #kids #learning +4 more
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PAL: Project on Affinities + Language

The Project on Affinities and Language (PAL) is designed to help us understand what happens in a child’s brain when they engage with thei...

in Affective Computing
Kristy Johnson
#learning #neurobiology #language learning +3 more
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SpeechBlocks

SpeechBlocks is a medium that allows children (4-5 years old) to engage in open-ended play with writing. They can build arbitrary composi...

in Social Machines
Jim Gray · Ivan Sysoev +1 more
#design #construction #kids +5 more
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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? ...

in Personal Robots
Hae Won Park · Xiajie (Brayden) Zhang +9 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction +10 more
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ScratchJr

ScratchJr makes coding accessible to younger children (ages 5-7), enabling them to program their own interactive stories, games, and anim...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Chris Garrity · Andrew Sliwinski +3 more
#robotics #design #kids +4 more
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A Counting—Poetic Justice group call for multilingual speakers

Please help Poetic Justice create an artwork that includes all the communities, voices, and languages of NYC.

Nov. 8, 2019
in Poetic Justice
#art #language learning #community
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Project Research

Relational AI

Creating long-term interpersonal interaction and shared experiences with social robots Many of our current projects explore the use ...

in Personal Robots · ML Learning
Jacqueline M Kory Westlund · Cynthia Breazeal +1 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #cognition +5 more
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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 sch...

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Nikhita Singh +1 more
#robotics #data #learning +1 more
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Robot Expressiveness Affects Children's Learning

Prior research with preschool children has established that book reading, especially when children are encouraged to actively process the...

in Personal Robots · ML Learning
Cynthia Breazeal · Hae Won Park +2 more
#robotics #kids #learning +2 more
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Words in Motion

Embodied theories of language propose that the way we communicate verbally is grounded in our bodies. Nevertheless, the way a second lang...

in Fluid Interfaces
Pattie Maes · Christian David Vazquez Machado
#virtual reality #language learning
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WordSense

As more powerful and spatially aware Augmented Reality devices become available, we can leverage the user’s context to embed reality with...

in Fluid Interfaces · ML Learning
Pattie Maes · Christian David Vazquez Machado
#virtual reality #augmented reality #learning +2 more
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Kinesthetic Language Learning in Virtual Reality

Tapping into the physicality of language to enhance the way we learn.

June 19, 2018
in ML Learning
#virtual reality #language learning
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Making new (robot) friends: Further reading

For the interested reader:If you'd like to learn more about the topics covered in my post,  Making new (robot) friends: Understandin...

June 7, 2017
in ML Learning · Personal Robots
#cognition #kids #learning +4 more
Publication Research

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.

Academic Paper, May 2017
in Personal Robots
#kids #social robotics #language learning
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Mixing Realities & Language Learning in the Wild

Seamlessly blend what you live with what you learn: mixed reality as a platform for language- learning “serendipitously in the wild."

Sept. 28, 2017
in ML Learning
#virtual reality #learning #interfaces +1 more
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Making new (robot) friends

Understanding children's relationships with social robots

June 13, 2017
in ML Learning · Personal Robots
#cognition #kids #learning +4 more
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Children Use Nonverbal Cues to Learn from Robots

When learning from human partners, infants and young children will pay attention to nonverbal signals, such as gaze and bodily orientatio...

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Jacqueline M Kory Westlund +1 more
#robotics #kids #learning +2 more
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Robotic Learning Companions

The language and literacy skills of young children entering school are highly predictive of their long-term academic success. Children fr...

Cynthia Breazeal · David Nunez +2 more
#robotics #kids #learning +2 more
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Flat versus expressive storytelling: young children's learning and retention of a social robot's narrative

Kory Westlund, J., Jeong, S., Park, H. W., Ronfard, S., Adhikari, A., Harris, P. L., David DeSteno, & Breazeal, C. (2017). Flat versus expressive storytelling: young children's learning and retention of a social robot's narrative. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

Academic Paper, May 2017
in Personal Robots
#kids #learning #social robotics +1 more
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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.

Proceedings, Nov. 2015
in Personal Robots
#kids #learning #social robotics +1 more
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Robotic Language Learning Companions

Young children learn language not through listening alone, but through active communication with a social actor. Cultural immersion and c...

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Jacqueline M Kory Westlund +1 more
#robotics #kids #learning +2 more
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They’re having fun… but are they learning?

How can you measure the learning outcomes of play? This has frustrated professionals in the field of early childhood education for years.

Feb. 10, 2017
in ML Learning
#learning #language learning

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