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]