Publications

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Below, you can find a list of my scholarly publications with links to the PDFs, as well as links to other articles I've written, such as blog posts about my research, book reviews, and personal essays.

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Scholarly Articles

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Books

(). Grad School Life: A Guide to Surviving and Thriving Beyond Coursework and Research. Columbia University Press.

Journal Articles

(). A Long-Term Study of Young Children's Rapport, Social Emulation, and Language Learning With a Peer-Like Robot Playmate in Preschool Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 6. [PDF] [online]

(). Exploring the effects of a social robot's speech entrainment and backstory on young children's emotion, rapport, relationships, and learning. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 6. [PDF] [online]

(). Flat versus expressive storytelling: young children's learning and retention of a social robot's narrative. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 11. [PDF] [online]

(). Children use non-verbal cues to learn new words from robots as well as people. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction. [PDF] PRE PRINT

(). Young children treat robots as informants. Topics in Cognitive Science, pp. 1-11. [PDF]

(). Motion Tracker: Camera-based monitoring of bodily movements using motion silhouettes. PLOS One, 10(6): e0130293. [PDF]

(). A Review and Meta-Analysis of Multimodal Affect Detection Systems. ACM Computing Surveys, 47(3), Article 43. [PDF] PRE PRINT - or [available from ACM]

Book Chapters & Essays

(). Implications of children’s social, emotional, and relational interactions with robots for human-robot empathy. In Mezzenzana, F., & Peluso, D. (Eds), Conversations on Empathy: Interdisciplinary perspectives on imagination and radical othering (pp. 256-279). Routledge. [PDF]

(). Parenting while Researching? It Takes Support, Kid-Friendly Systems, and a Lot of Luck. In Brown, T. (Ed.), Graduate Students at Work: Exploited Scholars of Neoliberal Higher Ed. Kansas University Press. [PDF]

(). Long-term interaction with relational SIAs. In In B. Lugrin, C. Pelachaud, D. Traum (Eds.), The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents - 20 Years of Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, and Social Robotics, Volume 2: Interactivity, Platforms, Application (pp. 195-260). ACM. [PDF]

(). Authenticity and Co-design: On Responsibly Creating Relational Robots for Children. In Ito, M., Cross, R., Dinakar, K., & Odgers, C. (Eds.), Algorithmic Rights and Protections for Children. MIT Press. Available online at MIT Press as of June 2021. [PDF]

(). Affect Elicitation for Affective Computing. In Calvo, R. A., D’Mello, S. K., Gratch, J., & Kappas, A. (Eds.), Handbook of Affective Computing (pp. 371-383). Oxford University Press. Available online at Oxford Handbooks Online as of April 2014. [PDF]

Conference Proceedings

(). Assessing Children's Perception and Acceptance of a Social Robot. Proceedings of the 18th ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC) (pp. 38-50). ACM: New York, NY. [talk] [PDF]

(). Measuring Young Children's Long-term Relationships with Social Robots. Proceedings of the 17th ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC) (pp. 207-218). ACM: New York, NY. [talk] [PDF] PRE PRINT DRAFT

(). Effects of Framing a Robot as a Social Agent or as a Machine on Children's Social Behavior. In S. Y. Okita, T. Shibata, & B. Mutlu (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (pp. 688-693). IEEE: Washington, DC. [talk] [PDF] PRE PRINT DRAFT

(). Lessons From Teachers on Performing HRI Studies with Young Children in Schools. In S. Sabanovic, A. Paiva, Y. Nagai, & C. Bartneck (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction: alt.HRI (pp. 383-390). [talk] [PDF] PRE PRINT DRAFT

(). Affective Personalization of a Social Robot Tutor for Children's Second Language Skills. Proceedings of the 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AAAI: Palo Alto, CA. [PDF] PRE PRINT DRAFT

(). Storytelling with Robots: Learning Companions for Preschool Children’s Language Development. In P. A. Vargas & R. Aylett (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). IEEE: Washington, DC. [talk] [PDF] PRE PRINT DRAFT

(). Consistent but modest: A meta-analysis on unimodal and multimodal affect detection accuracies from 30 studies. In L.-P. Morency, D. Bohus, H. Aghajan, A. Nijholt, J. Cassell and J. Epps (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, (pp. 31-38). ACM: New York, NY. [talk] Winner of Outstanding Paper Award. [PDF] PRE PRINT DRAFT [or available from ACM]

Presentations & Published Abstracts (Lightly Refereed)

(). A Study to Measure Effects of Framing a Robot as a Social Agent or as a Machine on Children's Social Behavior. In S. Sabanovic, A. Paiva, Y. Nagai, & C. Bartneck, Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction: Late-Breaking Reports (pp. 459-460). [poster] [PDF]

(). Tega: A Social Robot. In S. Sabanovic, A. Paiva, Y. Nagai, & C. Bartneck, Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction: Video Presentations (pp. 561). [video] Best Video Nominee. [PDF] [Video]

(). 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. [talk] [PDF]

(). Learning a Second Language with a Socially Assistive Robot. In Proceedings of New Friends: The 1st International Conference on Social Robots in Therapy and Education. [talk] (*equal contribution). [PDF]

(). The Interplay of Robot Language Level with Children's Language Learning during Storytelling. In J. A. Adams, W. Smart, B. Mutlu, & L. Takayama (Eds.), Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction: Extended Abstracts (pp. 65-66). [poster] [on ACM]

(). Telling Stories with Green the DragonBot: A Showcase of Children's Interactions Over Two Months. In J. A. Adams, W. Smart, B. Mutlu, & L. Takayama (Eds.), Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction: Extended Abstracts (p. 263). [video] [on ACM] [PDF] [Video] Winner of Best Video Award.

(). Robotic learning companions for early language development. In J. Epps, F. Chen, S. Oviatt, & K. Mase (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th ACM on International conference on multimodal interaction, (pp. 71-72). ACM: New York, NY. [demo] [on ACM]

Workshop Proceedings

(). Measuring children's long-term relationships with social robots Workshop on Perception and Interaction dynamics in Child-Robot Interaction, held in conjunction with the Robotics: Science and Systems XIII. (pp. 625-626). Workshop website [PDF]

(). Transparency, teleoperation, and children's understanding of social robots. In S. Sabanovic, A. Paiva, Y. Nagai, & C. Bartneck, Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction: The 11th Annual Human-Robot Interaction Pioneers Workshop (pp. 625-626). Workshop website [PDF]

(). Deception, Secrets, Children, and Robots: What’s Acceptable? Workshop on The Emerging Policy and Ethics of Human-Robot Interaction, held in conjunction with the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Workshop website [PDF]

(). Social agent or machine? The framing of a robot affects people's interactions and expressivity. 2nd Workshop on Applications for Emotional Robots held in conjunction with the 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. [talk] Workshop website. [PDF]

Theses

(). Relational AI: Creating Long-Term Interpersonal Interaction, Rapport, and Relationships with Social Robots. PhD Thesis, Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. [PDF]

(). Storytelling with robots: Effects of robot language level on children's language learning. Master's Thesis, Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. [PDF]

(). A biologically inspired predator-prey study of the effects of emotion and communication on emergent group behavior. B.A. Thesis, Cognitive Science Program, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY. [PDF]

Non-refereed Presentations

(). Relational AI: Creating long-term interpersonal interaction and shared experiences with social robots. Poster presented at MIT Intelligence Quest Launch, Cambridge, MA.

(). Autonomous Vehicle Laboratory for "Sense and Avoid" research. Presented at NASA Langley Research Center Aeronautics Student Forum 2010, Hampton, VA. Authors alphabetical. [Description]

(). A Self-Organizing Prediction System for Autonomous Learning in Mobile Robots. Poster presented at Vassar College Undergraduate Research Summer Institute Symposium 2009, Poughkeepsie, NY. [Poster]

(). Predictive Category Learning in Mobile Robots. Poster presented at Vassar College Undergraduate Research Summer Institute Symposium 2008, Poughkeepsie, NY. [Poster]

Research & Science Writing

(). . MIT Media Lab Blog.

(). . MIT Media Lab Blog.

(). . IEEE Spectrum.

Grad School & Academia

(). . Ronin Institute Blog.

(). . Elephant in the Lab. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3702301

(). . The Graduate. MIT Graduate Student Council. Cambridge, MA.

Miscellaneous

(). Ronin Institute Blog.

(). . Fast Company.

(). . Erraticus.

Personal Essays

(). . Resilience in Academic Writing Blog.

(). . MIT Graduate Admissions Blog.

(). . MIT Media Lab Blog.

(). Slice of MIT.

(). MIT Graduate Admissions Blog.

(). . MIT Graduate Admissions Blog.

(). MIT Graduate Admissions Blog.

(). . The Researcher News. NASA Langley Research Center. Hampton, VA.

In the News, Podcasts, Interviews, & More

Personal Finance for PhDs Podcast: ()

Mad Scientist Podcast: ()

Washington Post: ()

MIT Spectrum: ()

The New York Times: ()

Language Magazine: ()

IEEE Automaton Blog: ()

New Scientist: ()

Geeked on Goddard: ()

NASA Langley photo of the week: featuring Jake Forsberg and I with the quadcopters we worked with at NASA Langley that summer. ()

NASA EDGE: episode featured my summer lab at NASA Langley, mentored by Garry Qualls. ()

Academic Mentors & Collaborators

And many more: Sooyeon Jeong, Edith Ackermann, Leah Dickens, Hae Won Park, Goren Gordon, Michal Gordon, Samuel Ronfard, Jin Joo Lee, Nick de Palma, Siggi Aðalgeirsson, Samuel Spaulding, Luke Plummer, Kris dos Santos, Rebecca Kleinberger, Ehsan Hoque, Palash Nandy, David Nunez, Mirko Gelsomini, Randi Williams, Huili Chen, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Ishaan Grover, Nikhita Singh, Aradhana Adhikari, Marion Boulicault, Milo Phillips-Brown.

Undergraduates

  • Farida Virani (Fall 2017)
  • Branden Morioka (Fall 2017)
  • Adam Gumbardo (Summer 2017)
  • Kika Arias (Summer 2017)
  • Ryoya Ogishima (Fall 2016)
  • Michal Shlapentokh-Rothman (Summer - Fall 2016)
  • Marayna Martinez (January and Spring 2015, Fall 2015 - Spring 2016)
  • Maryam Archie (Fall 2015 - Spring 2016)
  • Lila Jansen (Spring 2016)
  • Madhurima Das (January and Spring 2015, Fall 2015)
  • Stacy Ho (Summer 2015)
  • Eileen Rivera (Fall 2014)