Cynthia Breazeal

Cynthia Breazeal

Social robots are designed to interact with people in an interpersonal way, engaging and supporting collaborative social and emotive behavior for beneficial outcomes.  In this talk, I highlight a number research projects where we are developing, fielding, and assessing social robots over repeated encounters with people in real world environments.

James A. Landay

I will illustrate how we are building on-body interfaces of the future that further engage our bodies by using muscle sensing for input and vibrotactile output, offering discrete and natural interaction on the go. I will also show how other interfaces we are designing take an even more radical approach, moving the interface off the human body altogether and onto drones that project into the space around them.