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Cynthia Breazeal
ai literacy
teacher professional development
data science
human-centered design
empathy
rare words
cyclic
retrofitting
post-specialization
interpretable
semantic similarity
social robots
co-design
ai ethics
peai: bias
10
presentations
18
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
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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
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Modeling Empathic Similarity in Personal Narratives
Jocelyn Shen and 4 other authors
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AI Audit: A card game to reflect on everyday AI systems
Safinah Ali and 2 other authors
![](https://assets.underline.io/lecture/68854/poster/medium-3faf4393c4162d85dcb58d02e0d44711.png)
Analyzing the COMPAS Recidivism Algorithm
Raechel Walker and 4 other authors
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Ethics, Equity, & Justice in Human-Robot Interaction: A Review and Future Directions
Anastasia K. Ostrowski and 6 other authors
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Long-Term Co-Design Guidelines: Empowering Older Adults As Co-Designers of Social Robots
Anastasia K. Ostrowski and 2 other authors
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RetroGAN: A Cyclic Post-Specialization System for Improving Out-of-Knowledge and Rare Word Representations
Pedro Colon-Hernandez and 5 other authors
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Social Robots: Reflections and Predictions on the Past, Present and Future of the Human-Robot Relationship
Cynthia Breazeal
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Towards Transferrable Personalized Student Models in Educational Games
Cynthia Breazeal and 3 other authors