
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