Publications

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Journal Articles

(2022) Deploying a Robotic Positive Psychology Coach to Improve College Students' Psychological Wellbeing

Jeong, S., Aymerich-Franch, L., Arias, K., Alghowinem, S., Lapedriza, A., Picard, R., Park, H., Breazeal, C.

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI)

(2019) Social Robots for Hospitalized Children

Logan, D. E., Breazeal, C., Goodwin, M., Jeong, S., O’Connell, B., Smith-Freedman, D., Weinstock, P.

Pediatrics

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(2017) Flat versus expressive storytelling: young children’s learning and retention of a social robot’s narrative

Kory Westlund, J., Jeong, S., Park, H. W., Ronfard, S., Adhikari, A., Harris, P. L., DeSteno, D., & Breazeal, C.

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

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(2017) Children Use Non-Verbal Cues to Learn New Words From Robots as well as People

Kory Westlund, J., Dickens, L., Jeong, S., Harris, P., DeSteno, D., Breazeal, C.

International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction

(2016) Young children treat robots as informants

Breazeal, C., Harris, P., DeSteno, D., Kory, J., Dickens, L., Jeong, S.

Topics in Cognitive Science

Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings

(2024) Sorting Pauses in Speech Based Dialog Systems: Effects of Knowing Whether Pauses in Speech are Mid-Turn Or At The End of The Turn

Jemmali, M., Dragon, G., Mendoza, R., Stille, D., Poinar, P., Ojha, A., Baez, K., Jeong, S., Balyan, R. and Iacobelli, F.

ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW)

(2024) Voice Assistants for Mental Health Services: Designing Dialogues with Homebound Older Adults

Wong, N., Jeong, S., Reddy, M., Stamatis, C., Lattie, E., & Jacobs, M

ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS)

(2023) Enjoy, but Moderately!'': Designing a Social Robot for Behavior Promotion and Moderation in Solitary Drinking Context

Jung, Y., Jung, G., Jeong, S., Kim, C., Woo, W., Lee, U.,

ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW).

(2023) A Robotic Companion for Psychological Well-being: A Long-term Investigation of Companionship and Therapeutic Alliance

Jeong, S., Aymerich-Franch, L., Alghowinem, S., Picard, R., Breazeal, C, & Park, H.

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).

🏆 *Best Studies Paper Nominee*

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(2021) Beyond the Words: Analysis and Detection of Self-Disclosure Behavior during Robot Positive Psychology Interaction

Alghowinem, S., Jeong, S., Arias, K., Picard, R., Park, H., Breazeal, C.,

IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG).

(2021) Practical Guidelines for Intent Recognition: BERT with Minimal Training Data Evaluated in Real-World HRI Application

Huggins, M., Alghowinem, S., Jeong, S., Colon-Hernandez, P., Breazeal, C., & Park, H.

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).

(2020) A Robotic Positive Psychology Coach to Improve College Students' Wellbeing

Jeong, S., Alghowinem, S., Arias, K., Aymerich-Franch, L., Lapedriza, A., Picard, R., Park, H., Breazeal, C.

IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

🏆 *Best Paper Award* & *Best Student Paper Finalist*

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(2020) Migratable AI: Effect of identity and information migration on users’ perception of conversational AI agents

Tejwani, R., Moreno, F., Santana, Jeong, S., Park, H., Breazeal, C.

IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

(2018) Huggable: The Impact of Embodiment on Promoting Socio-emotional Interactions for Young Pediatric Inpatients

Jeong, S., Breazeal, C., Logan, D. & Weinstock, P.,

CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)

(2017) Huggable: Impact of Embodiment on Promoting Verbal and Physical Engagement for Young Pediatric Inpatients

Jeong, S., Breazeal, C., Logan, D. & Weinstock, P.

IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

(2016) Toward Robotic Companions that Enhance Psychological Wellbeing with Smartphone Technology

Jeong, S., & Breazeal, C.

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. (HRI)

(2016) Improving Smartphone Users’ Affect and Wellbeing with Personalized Positive Psychology Interventions

Jeong, S., & Breazeal, C.

The 4th Annual International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI)

(2016) A Robotic Learning Companion That Always Tries Hard Might Lower Children's Self-Efficacy in Challenging Learning Tasks

Jeong, S., & L'Huillier, N.

IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

(2016) Tega: A Social Robot

Kory Westlund, J., Lee, J., Plummer, L., Faridi, F., Gray, J., Berlin, M., Quitus-Bosz, H., Hartmann, R., Hess, M., Dyer, S., Dos Santos, K., Aoalgeirsson, S., Gordon, G., Spaulding, S., Martinez, M., Das, Madhurima, Archie, M., Jeong, S., & Breazeal, C.

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

(2015) A Comparison of Children Learning New Words from Robots, Tablets, & People

Kory Westlund, J., Dickens, L., Jeong, S., Harris, P., DeSteno, D., Breazeal, C.

The New Friend 2015 Conference (New Friend)

(2015) Designing a Socially Assistive Robot for Pediatric Care

Jeong, S., Dos Santos, K., Breazeal, C., et al.

ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC)

(2015) A social robot to mitigate stress, anxiety, and pain in hospital pediatric care

Jeong, S., Logan, D.E., Goodwin, M.S., Graca, S., O'Connell, B., Goodenough, H., Anderson, L., Stenquist, N., Fitzpatrick, K., Zisook, M. and Plummer, L.,

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).

(2013) Robotic learning companions for early language development

Kory, J., Jeong, S., & Breazeal, C. L.

ACM on International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI).