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Sociable Machines Project Members
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Dr. Cynthia Breazeal is a postdoctoral fellow at the MIT Artificial
Intelligence Lab working in the Humanoid Robotics Group under the
directorship of Prof. Rodney Brooks. She received her Sc.D. and
S.M. degrees from MIT in the department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science. While at MIT, Cynthia has developed numerous
autonomous robots, from planetary micro-rovers, to upper-torso
humanoid robots, to highly expressive robotic faces. She is the lead
researcher on the Sociable Machines project where her current
interests focus on social interaction and socially situated learning
between people and humanoid robots. She developed Kismet for her
doctoral research in expressive social exchange between humans and
humanoid robots.
(more) cynthia@ai.mit.edu
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Ms. Lijin Aryananda received her S.B. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical
Engineering and Computer science at MIT in 1998 and 1999 respectively.
She is currently a Ph.D. candidate working under Prof. Rodney Brooks
at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab in the Humanoid Robotics Group.
Her current interests focus on developing an autobiographical memory
for socially intelligent robots. Lijin has played a significant role
in enabling Kismet to recognize the affective communicative intent in
human speech and works on the Sociable Machines Project.
lijin@ai.mit.edu
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Mr. Paul Fitzpatrick received a B.Eng and M.Eng. in Computer
Engineering at the University of Limerick, Ireland, and is currently a
graduate student with Prof. Rodney Brooks at the MIT Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory in the Humanoid Robotics Group. He is an
actively involved in the Sociable Machines Project. His current
work focuses on robot-human communication through social protocols
realized in the visual and auditory domains. Paul has made important
contributions to Kismet's active vision capabilities, visual
processing algorithms, and general system integration.
(more) paulfitz.at.ai.mit.edu
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Ms. Paulina Varchavskaia received her S.B. degree in Computer Science
with Cognitive Science from University College London in 1999. She is
currently a S.M. candidate working under Prof. Rodney Brooks in the
Humanoid Robotics Group. Her current interests focus on the pragmatics
of human and robotic language acquisition such as having Kismet learn
meaningful communicative acts from grounded social interaction with
people. As a first step towards this goal, she has modeled human
infant canonical babbling for Kismet.
(more) paulina@ai.mit.edu
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Other Significant Contributors
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Mr. Brian Scassellati received his S.B. degrees in Computer Science
and Brain and Cognitive science from MIT in 1994, and his S.M. in
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1995. He is currently a
Ph.D. candidate working under Prof. Rodney Brooks at the MIT
Artificial Intelligence Lab. His research interests focus on building
a theory of mind for the humanoid robots of the Humanoid Robotics
Group. His interests include using robots as a tool for evaluating
models from human development, machine vision, and social skill
development. Although primarily involved in the Cog Project, Brian
has made important contributions to the development of Kismet's
low-level visual processes and visual attention system.
(more) scaz@ai.mit.edu
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