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Cynthia Breazeal

Cynthia Breazeal

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Computer Science

D-Index
89
Citations
32073
World Ranking
642
National Ranking
342

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For foundational contributions to the field of socially interactive robots.

Overview

Cynthia Breazeal is affiliated with MIT in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Psychology, with a significant focus on subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Social Psychology, Computer Science Applications, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Human-Computer Interaction.

The scientist's work covers several prominent topics, including:

  • Social Robot Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
  • Teaching and Learning Programming
  • AI in Service Interactions
  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Topic Modeling
  • Online Learning and Analytics

Among their recent papers are:

  • Integrating Ethics and Career Futures with Technical Learning to Promote AI Literacy for Middle School Students (2022), published in the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education
  • Teaching and learning with children: Impact of reciprocal peer learning with a social robot on children's learning and emotive engagement (2020), published in Computers & Education
  • IEEE Intelligent Systems (2023), published in IEEE Intelligent Systems
  • AI + Ethics Curricula for Middle School Youth: Lessons Learned from Three Project-Based Curricula (2022), published in the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education
  • Zhorai: Designing a Conversational Agent for Children to Explore Machine Learning Concepts (2020), published in the Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Cynthia Breazeal include:

  • Hae Won Park (39 collaborations)
  • Safinah Ali (21 collaborations)
  • Sharifa Alghowinem (16 collaborations)
  • Daniella DiPaola (13 collaborations)
  • Anastasia K. Ostrowski (12 collaborations)

Key publication venues for the scientist are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 33 publications
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence with 14 publications
  • Frontiers in Robotics and AI with 4 publications
  • 2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) with 3 publications
  • International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education with 2 publications

Cynthia Breazeal received the Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) award in 2020 for foundational contributions to the field of socially interactive robots.

Best Publications

  • Designing Sociable Robots

    Cynthia Breazeal

  • Emotion and sociable humanoid robots

    Cynthia Breazeal

  • Toward sociable robots

    Cynthia Breazeal

  • The cog project: building a humanoid robot

    Rodney A. Brooks;Cynthia Breazeal;Matthew Marjanović;Brian Scassellati

  • Affective Learning — A Manifesto

    R. W. Picard;S. Papert;W. Bender;B. Blumberg

  • Effects of nonverbal communication on efficiency and robustness in human-robot teamwork

    C. Breazeal;C.D. Kidd;A.L. Thomaz;G. Hoffman

  • Social interactions in HRI: the robot view

    C. Breazeal

  • How to build robots that make friends and influence people

    C. Breazeal;B. Scassellati

  • Robots that imitate humans

    Cynthia Breazeal;Brian Scassellati

  • A Context-Dependent Attention System for a Social Robot

    Cynthia Breazeal;Brian Scassellati

  • Teachable robots: Understanding human teaching behavior to build more effective robot learners

    Andrea L. Thomaz;Cynthia Breazeal

  • Infant-like social interactions between a robot and a human caregiver

    Cynthia Breazeal;Brian Scassellati

  • Sociable machines: expressive social exchange between humans and robots

    Cynthia L. Breazeal;Rodney Brooks

  • Persuasive Robotics: The influence of robot gender on human behavior

    Mikey Siegel;Cynthia Breazeal;Michael I. Norton

  • Effect of a robot on user perceptions

    C.D. Kidd;C. Breazeal

  • Robots at home: Understanding long-term human-robot interaction

    C.D. Kidd;C. Breazeal

  • Recognition of Affective Communicative Intent in Robot-Directed Speech

    Cynthia Breazeal;Lijin Aryananda

  • Affective personalization of a social robot tutor for children's second language skills

    Goren Gordon;Samuel Spaulding;Jacqueline Kory Westlund;Jin Joo Lee

  • Reinforcement learning with human teachers: evidence of feedback and guidance with implications for learning performance

    Andrea L. Thomaz;Cynthia Breazeal

  • TIKL: Development of a Wearable Vibrotactile Feedback Suit for Improved Human Motor Learning

    J.. Lieberman;C.. Breazeal

  • Learning From and About Others: Towards Using Imitation to Bootstrap the Social Understanding of Others by Robots

    Cynthia Breazeal;Daphna Buchsbaum;Jesse Gray;David Gatenby

Frequent Co-Authors

Guy Hoffman
Guy Hoffman Cornell University
Andrea L. Thomaz
Andrea L. Thomaz The University of Texas at Austin
Brian Scassellati
Brian Scassellati Yale University
Sonia Chernova
Sonia Chernova Georgia Institute of Technology
David DeSteno
David DeSteno Northeastern University
Deirdre E. Logan
Deirdre E. Logan Boston Children's Hospital
Paul L. Harris
Paul L. Harris Harvard University

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