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Children’s oral language skills in preschool can predict their academic success later in life. Helping children improve their language and …
Young Learner's Companion Developing robots' growth mindset and pro-curious behavior and fostering the same in young learners via long…
Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? We…
Creating long-term interpersonal interaction and shared experiences with social robots Many of our current projects explore the use of…
Understanding social-emotional behaviors in storytelling interactions plays a critical role in the development of interactive and education…
Advancing Wellbeing
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…
Social robots are increasingly being developed for long-term interactions with children in domains such as healthcare, education, therapy, …
Mission Wildlife is a research collaboration between San Diego Zoo Global and the MIT Center for Civic Media to explore the poten…
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.
“The goal is to have a companion that has all of the behaviors that we want to instill and promote in the child”
For the interested reader:If you'd like to learn more about the topics covered in my post, Making new (robot) friends: Understanding …
Ho, P. H., Miller, G. A., Wang M. Y., Haleftiras, N., Zuckerman, E. 2017. Mission Wildlife: An Augmented Reality Approach to Engaging People About Threats to Endangered Species at a Zoo. In proceedings of Unobtrusive User Experiences with Technology in Nature (NatureCHI'17) at the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI'17).
Understanding children's relationships with social robots
Our mission is to develop the computational techniques that will enable the design, implementation, and evaluation of "relational" robots, …
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