Publications

All AI Education Research publications from the RAISE group

2021

  • Irene Lee, Safinah Ali, Helen Zhang, Daniella DiPaola, Cynthia Breazeal. 2021. Developing Middle School Students’ AI Literacy. In Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE’21). [PDF]

  • Tejal Reddy, Randi Williams, Cynthia Breazeal. 2021. Text Classification for AI Education. In Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE’21). *First Place – Student Research Competition (UG)* [PDF][Poster][Video]

  • Randi Williams. 2021. How to Train Your Robot: Project-Based AI Education for Middle School Classrooms. In Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE’21). [PDF]

  • Safinah Ali*, Daniella DiPaola*, Cynthia Breazeal. 2021. What are GANs?: Introducing Generative Adversarial Networks to Middle School Students. In Proceedings of the 10th Symposium on Education Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI ’21). AAAI, Menlo Park, CA, USA. [PDF]

  • Brian Jordan, Nisha Devasia, Jenna Hong, Randi Williams, Cynthia Breazeal. 2021. PoseBlocks: A Toolkit for Creating (and Dancing) with AI. In Proceedings of the 10th Symposium on Education Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI ’21). AAAI, Menlo Park, CA, USA. [PDF]

  • Irene Lee* and Safinah Ali*. 2021. The Contour to Classification Game. In Proceedings of the 10th Symposium on Education Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI ’21). AAAI, Menlo Park, CA, USA. [PDF]

  • Randi Williams, Stephen P. Kaptsos, Cynthia Breazeal. 2021. Teacher Perspectives on How to Train Your Robot, A Middle School AI and Ethics Curriculum. In Proceedings of the 10th Symposium on Education Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI ’21). AAAI, Menlo Park, CA, USA. [PDF][Appendix][Slides]

2020

  • Daniella DiPaola, Blakeley H. Payne, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2020. Decoding design agendas: an ethical design activity for middle school students. In Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference. [PDF]

  • Phoebe Lin, Jessica Van Brummelen, Galit Lukin, Randi Williams, Cynthia Breazeal. 2020. Zhorai: Designing A Conversational Agent for Children to Explore Machine Learning Concepts. In Proceedings of the 9th Symposium on Education Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI ’20). AAAI, Menlo Park, CA, USA. [PDF]

  • Randi Williams and Cynthia Breazeal. 2020. How to Train Your Robot: A Middle School AI and Ethics Curriculum. Presented in the International Workshop on Education in Artificial Intelligence K-12 (EDUAI ’20). [PDF][Slides]

2019

  • Safinah Ali, Blakeley H. Payne, Randi Williams, Hae Won Park, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2019. Constructionism, Ethics, and Creativity: Developing Primary and Middle School Artificial Intelligence Education. Presented in the International Workshop on Education in Artificial Intelligence K-12 (EDUAI ’19). Palo Alto, CA, USA. [PDF]

  • Randi Williams, Hae Won Park, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2019. A is for Artificial Intelligence. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI ’19). ACM, New York, NY, USA. [PDF][Appendix][Slides]

  • Randi Williams, Hae Won Park, Lauren Oh, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2019. PopBots: Designing an Artificial Intelligence Curriculum for Early Childhood Education. In Proceedings of the 9th Symposium on Education Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI ’19). AAAI, Menlo Park, CA, USA. [PDF][Slides]

Theses

  • Daniella DiPaola, How does my robot know who I am?: Understanding the Impact of Education on Child-Robot Relationships, 2021. S.M. Media Arts and Sciences, MIT. [PDF]

  • Blakeley H. Payne, Can my algorithm be my opinion? An AI + ethics curriculum for middle school students, 2020. S. M. Media Arts and Sciences, MIT. [PDF]

  • Randi Williams, Leveraging Social Robots to Aid Preschool Children’s Artificial Intelligence Education, 2018. S. M. Media Arts and Sciences, MIT. [PDF]

  • Stefania, Druga, Growing Up With AI. Cognimates: from coding to teaching machines, 2018. S. M. Media Arts and Sciences, MIT. [PDF]