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Cynthia Breazeal

ai literacy

personal narratives

empathy

psycholinguistics

social psychology

storytelling

affective computing

culture

teacher professional development

data science

child-robot interaction

human-centered design

multimodal dataset

persona

survey

12

presentations

40

number of views

1

citations

SHORT BIO

Cynthia Breazeal is Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, where she founded and directs the Personal Robots group at the Media Lab. She is known as a pioneer in the area of social robotics and human-robot interaction. Her work balances technical innovation in AI, UX design, and understanding the psychology of engagement to design personified AI technologies that promote human flourishing and personal growth. She received her doctorate in 2000 from MIT. Previous honours include a National Academy of Engineering’s Gilbreth Lecture Award and a AAAI Fellowship. She also founded the consumer social robotics company Jibo, where she served as Chief Scientist and Chief Experience Officer.

Presentations

A HeARTfelt Robot: Social Robot-Driven Deep Emotional Art Reflection with Children

Isabella Pu and 5 other authors

EmpathicStories++: A Multimodal Dataset for Empathy Towards Personal Experiences

Jocelyn Shen and 6 other authors

PersonaLLM: Investigating the Ability of Large Language Models to Express Personality Traits

Hang Jiang and 5 other authors

A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Co-designing Text-to-Image Generation Learning Materials for K-12 with Educators | VIDEO

Safinah Ali and 4 other authors

Modeling Empathic Similarity in Personal Narratives

Jocelyn Shen and 4 other authors

AI Audit: A card game to reflect on everyday AI systems

Safinah Ali and 2 other authors

Analyzing the COMPAS Recidivism Algorithm

Raechel Walker and 4 other authors

Ethics, Equity, & Justice in Human-Robot Interaction: A Review and Future Directions

Anastasia K. Ostrowski and 6 other authors

Long-Term Co-Design Guidelines: Empowering Older Adults As Co-Designers of Social Robots

Anastasia K. Ostrowski and 2 other authors

RetroGAN: A Cyclic Post-Specialization System for Improving Out-of-Knowledge and Rare Word Representations

Pedro Colon-Hernandez and 5 other authors

Social Robots: Reflections and Predictions on the Past, Present and Future of the Human-Robot Relationship

Cynthia Breazeal

Towards Transferrable Personalized Student Models in Educational Games

Cynthia Breazeal and 3 other authors

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