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Research Projects

We engage in multidisciplinary, iterative, and evidence-based research and development with diverse stakeholders to create new technologies, activities, practices and programs for real-world impact in homes, schools, afterschool programs and online communities. A list of publications for these projects can be found here.

Facemesh Camera Filter

Would you like to make your own facial filters? In this tutorial, we will be using facial landmark detection to create a filter camera using a new AI technology called Facemesh.

Awesome Dancing with AI Tutorial

Here you will learn how to use the new AI technology PoseNet to track key points of your body to create a skeletal model; develop some basic methods to quantify, measure and identify some dance moves.

Careers in AI

A video series about experts in AI.

PRG AI Blocks

Various extensions to the Scratch programming languages allow students to build AI-enabled projects.

Creativity & GANs for Middle School

Teaching middle school students the practices and ethical implications of creative machine learning techniques, such as GANs and style transfer.

Voice Calculator

In this project you are challenged to create your very first own Voice User Interface (VUI) as you build a voice-driven calculator that can do basic arithmetic operations.

Gizmo & ScratchX

Gizmo is a simple Arduino robot based off of the PopPet robot created by Jaidyn Edwards, and customized for our K-2, 3-5, and 6-8 grade AI curricula.

Personal Audio Classifier

This student guide/tutorial shows you how to use the Personal Audio Classifier website to train an audio model using short 1-2 second recordings.

Therapist Bot Tutorial

Can an app on your phone be your next therapist? This tutorial will show you how to make your own therapist bot app using App Inventor.

Rock Paper Scissors Tutorial

Use Rock Paper Scissors to create a program that allows the machine to observe and learn from its user's game choices using a Markov Model!

At-Home AI Conversations

4-Steps to Debating technology and AI with your child.

Primary School AI for 3-5th Grade

Primary AI for 3-5th grade introduces upper elementary school students to robotics, artificial intelligence, and design thinking.

Selected Publications

AI Education Peer-reviewed Research Articles and Preprints

Personal Robots Group - 2020

Can Children Emulate a Robotic Non-Player Character’s Figural Creativity?

Ali, S., Park, HW., & Breazeal, C. (2020). Can Children Emulate a Robotic Non-Player Character’s Figural Creativity?. Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY ’20).

Using Transfer Learning, Spectrogram Audio Classification, and MIT App Inventor to Facilitate Machine Learning Understanding

Bhatia, N. & Lao, N. (2020). Using Transfer Learning, Spectrogram Audio Classification, and MIT App Inventor to Facilitate Machine Learning Understanding. International Conference on Computational Thinking Education 2020 (CTE2020).

Experiences from Teaching Actionable Machine Learning at the University Level through a Small Practicum Approach

Lao, N., Lee, I., & Abelson, H. (2020). Experiences from Teaching Actionable Machine Learning at the University Level through a Small Practicum Approach. International Conference on Computational Thinking Education 2020 (CTE2020).

Escape!Bot: Child-Robot Interaction to Promote Creative Expression During Gameplay

Devasia, N., Ali, S., & Breazeal, C. (2020). Escape!Bot: Child-Robot Interaction to Promote Creative Expression During Gameplay. Extended Abstracts of the 2020 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY ’20 EA).

Engaging Teachers to Co-Design Integrated AI Curriculum for K-12 Classrooms

Jessica Van Brummelen, Phoebe Lin, (2020 in submission). Engaging Teachers to Co-Design Integrated AI Curriculum for K-12 Classrooms..

Designing AI Learning Experiences for K-12

Xiaofei Zhou, Jessica Van Brummelen, Phoebe Lin (2020 in submission). Designing AI Learning Experiences for K-12: Emerging Works, Future Opportunities and a Design Framework..

CONVO: What does conversational programming need?

Van Brummelen, J., Weng, K., Lin, P., & Yeo, C. (2020). CONVO: What does conversational programming need?. 2020 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), 1-5.

Zhorai: Designing a Conversational Agent for Children to Explore Machine Learning Concepts

Lin, P., Van Brummelen, J., Lukin, G., Williams, R. & Breazeal, C. (2020). Zhorai: Designing a Conversational Agent for Children to Explore Machine Learning Concepts. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 34, 13381—13388.

Teaching and learning with children: Impact of reciprocal peer learning with a social robot on children’s learning and emotive engagement

Chen, H., Park, HW., & Breazeal, C. (2020). Teaching and Learning with Children: Impact of Reciprocal Peer Learning with a Social Robot on Children’s Learning and Emotive Engagement. Computers & Education, 150(8).

Impact of Interaction Context on the Student Affect-Learning Relationship in Child-Robot Interaction

Chen, H., Park, HW., Zhang, X., & Breazeal, C. (2020). Impact of Interaction Context on the Student Affect-Learning Relationship in Child-Robot Interaction. Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 389–397.

PIC: A Personal Image Classification Webtool for High School Students

Tang, D., Utsumi, Y., & Lao, N. (2019). PIC: A Personal Image Classification Webtool for High School Students. Proceedings of the 2019 IJCAI EduAI Workshop.

A Deep Learning Practicum: Concepts and Practices for Teaching Actionable Machine Learning at the Tertiary Education Level

Lao, N., Lee, I., & Abelson, H. (2019). A Deep Learning Practicum: Concepts and Practices for Teaching Actionable Machine Learning at the Tertiary Education Level. IATED2019 Proceedings (12th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation).