A short list of selected publications...

Group publications

Please visit the Robotic Life Group's publication web page for selected student papers, etc.

Books

C. Breazeal (2002). Designing Sociable Robots, The MIT Press.
Y. Bar-Cohen & C. Breazeal (2003). Biologically Inspired Intellilgent Robots, SPIE Press.

Journals

C. Breazeal (2004). "Function Meets Style: Insights from Emotion Theory Applied to HRI," R. Murphy and E. Rogers (eds.), in IEEE SMC Transactions, Part C. (Forthcoming 2004).

C. Breazeal (2004). "Social Interactions in HRI: The Robot View," R. Murphy and E. Rogers (eds.), in IEEE SMC Transactions, Part C. (Forthcoming 2004).

C. Breazeal, D. Buchsbaum, J. Gray, D. Gatenby, B. Blumberg (2004). "Learning from and about Others: Towards Using Imitation to Bootstrap the Social Understanding of Others by Robots," L. Rocha and F. Almedia e Costa (eds.), in Artificial Life. (Forthcoming 2004).

C. Breazeal, A. Brooks, J. Gray, G. Hoffman, C. Kidd, H. Lee, J. Lieberman, A. Lockerd, and D. Mulanda (2004). "Humanoid Robots as Cooperative Partners for People." Submitted to IJHR (2004).

C. Breazeal, A. Brooks, J. Gray, M. Hancher, J. McBean, W.D. Stiehl, and J. Strickon (2003). "Interactive Robot Theatre", Communications of the ACM, 46(7), pp. 76-85.

C. Breazeal (2003). "Emotion and sociable humanoid robots," E. Hudlika (ed), International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 59, pp.119-155. (998KB, PDF file)

C. Breazeal (2003). "Towards sociable robots," T. Fong (ed), Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 42(3-4), pp. 167-175. (207KB, PDF file)

C. Breazeal (2003). "Emotive qualities in lip synchronized robot speech," Advanced Robotics, 17(2), pp. 97-113. (471KB, PDF file)

C. Breazeal(2002). "Regulation and entrainment for human-robot interaction," D. Rus and S. Singh (eds.), International Journal of Experimental Robotics, 21(10-11), pp. 883-902. (568KB, PDF File)

C. Breazeal and B. Scassellati (2002). "Robots that imitate humans," Trends in Cognitive Science, 6, pp. 481-487. (239KB, PDF file)

C. Breazeal and L. Aryananda (2002). "Recognizing affective intent in robot directed speech", Autonomous Robots, 12:1, pp. 83-104. (2369 KB PDF file)

C. Breazeal, A. Edsinger, P. Fitzpatrick, and B. Scassellati (2001). "Active vision systems for sociable robots," in K. Dautenhahn (ed.), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A, 31:5, pp. 443-453. (653 KB PDF file)

Refereed proceedings

C. Breazeal, G. Hoffman and A. Lockerd (2004). "Teaching and Working with Robots as a Collaboration." Submitted to AAMAS 2004.

G. Hoffman and C. Breazeal (2004). "Robots that Work in Collaboration with People." Submitted to CHI 2004 Workshop on Shaping Human Robot Interaction.

W.D. Stiehl, L. Lalla, and C. Breazeal (2004). "A Somatic Alphabet Approach to Sensitive Skin for Robots." Submitted to ICRA 2004.

C. Breazeal, A. Brooks, J. Gray, M. Hancher, C. Kidd, J. McBean, W.D. Stiehl, and J. Strickon (2003). "Interactive Robot Theatre." In Proceedings of IROS 2003.

C. Breazeal, (2001). "Affective interaction between humans and robots", in Proceedings of the2001 European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL2001). Prague, Czech Rep.

C. Breazeal (2001). "Emotive qualities in robot speech" in Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Systems (IROS2001). Maui, HI. CD-ROM proceedings.

C. Breazeal (2000). "Proto-conversations with an anthropomorphic robot," in Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man2000). Osaka, Japan, 328--333.

C. Breazeal (2000). "Believability and readability of robot faces," in Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems (SIRS2000). Reading, UK, 247--256.

C. Breazeal and B. Scassellati (1999). "A context-dependent attention system for a social robot," in Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artifical Intelligence (IJCAI 99). Stockholm, Sweden, 1146--1151. (235 KB PDF file)

C. Breazeal (1998). "A motivation system for regulating human-robot interaction," in Proceedings of the fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intellilgence (AAAI 98). Madison, WI, 54--61. (235 KB PDF file)

Other publications

C. Breazeal and R. Brooks (2004). "Robot Emotion: A Functional Perspective," In J.-M. Fellous and M. Arbib (eds.) Who Needs Emotions: The Brain Meets the Robot, MIT Press (forthcoming 2004).

C. Breazeal (2002) ."Designing sociable robots: Issues and lessons," in K. Dautenhahn, A. Bond, L. Canamero, B. (eds.), Socially Intelligent Agents: Creating Relationships with Computers and Robots, Kluwer Academic Press.

C. Breazeal and B. Scassellati (2002). "Challenges in building robots that imitate people," in K. Dautenhahn and C. Nehaniv (eds.), Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, MIT Press. (1934 KB, MSWord file)

C. Breazeal, (2000). "Sociable Machines: Expressive Social Exchange Between Humans and Robots", Doctoral Dissertation. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. MIT.

C. Ferrell (1993). "Robust Agent Control of an Autonomous Robot with Many Sensors and Actuators", MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Technical Report 1443. Master's thesis.

Portfolio

Cynthia's design portfolio of past projects. Copyright ,2003 (PDF, 39MB)

Exhibitions

Robots + Us (2004)

Featuring footage of Kismet @ Science Museum of Mininnesota, St Paul, MN

http://www.robotsandus.org/being/

National Design Triennial (2003)

Cyberflora @ Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY

Emerging Technologies Exhibit (2002)

Interactive Robotic Terrarium @ SIGGRAPH 2002, San Antonio, TX

Three Tales, a Steve Reich Video Opera (2002)

Featureing videos of Kismet and interview with Cynthia included.

Boston Academy of Music, New York, NY

Robots and Beyond: Exploring Artificial Intelligence @ MIT (2000+)

Kismet, Cog and Hannibal on display as part of exhibit on the history of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab @ MIT Museum 2000, Cambridge MA

EXPO 2000

Work on Kismet is on exhibit as part of the EXPO 2000 Project of DaimlerChrysler, a mobile scientific exhibition for young people touring several European countries.

Related Works

P. Menzel & F. D'Aluisio (2000). RoboSapiens, The MIT Press.

R. Brooks (2002). Flesh and Machines, The MIT Press.

D. Norman (2004). Emotional Design, Basic Books.

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