Cynthia Breazeal

Situating Youth Agency in Designing AI & Art Policies AAAI 2026 Advancing Research on Equitable AI Education Through a Focus on Implementation: Insights from a Middle School Computer Vision Module Beta-Test AAAI 2025 Aligning Dialogue Agents with Global Feedback via Large Language Model Multimodal Reward Decomposition EMNLP 2025 BehaviorSFT: Behavioral Token Conditioning for Health Agents Across the Proactivity Spectrum EMNLP 2025 Designing Characters with AI: An Art & AI Learning Activity AAAI 2025 Does “Reasoning” with Large Language Models Improve Recognizing, Generating and Reframing Unhelpful Thoughts? ACL 2025 Model AI Assignments 2025 AAAI 2025 Supporting AI Literacy Teaching Through the Development of Assessments for Classroom Use AAAI 2025 The Indoor-Training Effect: Unexpected Gains from Distribution Shifts in the Transition Function AAAI 2025 VocalAgent: Large Language Models for Vocal Health Diagnostics with Safety-Aware Evaluation Interspeech 2025 Words Like Knives: Backstory-Personalized Modeling and Detection of Violent Communication EMNLP 2025 A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Co-designing Text-to-Image Generation Learning Materials for K-12 with Educators AAAI 2024 Constructing Dreams Using Generative AI AAAI 2024 Dr. R.O. Bott Will See You Now: Exploring AI for Wellbeing with Middle School Students AAAI 2024 EmpathicStories++: A Multimodal Dataset for Empathy Towards Personal Experiences ACL 2024 Global Reward to Local Rewards: Multimodal-Guided Decomposition for Improving Dialogue Agents EMNLP 2024 HEART-felt Narratives: Tracing Empathy and Narrative Style in Personal Stories with LLMs EMNLP 2024 MDAgents: An Adaptive Collaboration of LLMs for Medical Decision-Making NeurIPS 2024 PersonaLLM: Investigating the Ability of Large Language Models to Express Personality Traits NAACL 2024 AI Audit: A Card Game to Reflect on Everyday AI Systems AAAI 2023 An Introduction to Rule-Based Feature and Object Perception for Middle School Students AAAI 2023 Build-a-Bot: Teaching Conversational AI Using a Transformer-Based Intent Recognition and Question Answering Architecture AAAI 2023 “How Can I Code A.I. Responsibly?”: The Effect of Computational Action on K-12 Students Learning and Creating Socially Responsible A.I. AAAI 2023 Model AI Assignments 2023 AAAI 2023 Modeling Empathic Similarity in Personal Narratives EMNLP 2023 MultiPar-T: Multiparty-Transformer for Capturing Contingent Behaviors in Group Conversations IJCAI 2023 Introducing Variational Autoencoders to High School Students AAAI 2022 MRF-Chat: Improving Dialogue with Markov Random Fields EMNLP 2021 PoseBlocks: A Toolkit for Creating (and Dancing) with AI AAAI 2021 RetroGAN: A Cyclic Post-Specialization System for Improving Out-of-Knowledge and Rare Word Representations ACL 2021 Teacher Perspectives on How To Train Your Robot: A Middle School AI and Ethics Curriculum AAAI 2021 What are GANs?: Introducing Generative Adversarial Networks to Middle School Students AAAI 2021 A Model-Free Affective Reinforcement Learning Approach to Personalization of an Autonomous Social Robot Companion for Early Literacy Education AAAI 2019 A Semantics-based Model for Predicting Children's Vocabulary IJCAI 2019 PopBots: Designing an Artificial Intelligence Curriculum for Early Childhood Education AAAI 2019