publications

2026

  1. AI Literacy
    Orbiting the VirtueVerse: A Game for Practicing and Reflecting on AI Ethics
    Daniella DiPaola, Isabella Pu, Zheng Zhou, Fouz Yasser Morished, Serena Bono, Sharifa Alghowinem, and Cynthia Breazeal
    In Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, 2026
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  2. AI Literacy
    AI Literacy in Action: Develop Informed AI “Use” Through an ELA Debate and Argumentation Curriculum
    Cunyan Ma, Jessy Wang-Sun, Daniella DiPaola, Zheng Zhou, and Cynthia Breazeal
    In Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, 2026
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  3. Ethics and Policy
    Bridging technology and policy design: A robot policy design toolkit to support collaborations in policymaking
    Anastasia Kouvaras Ostrowski, Daniella DiPaola, Rylie Spiegel, Zandra H Feland, Zeynep Yalçin, and Cynthia Breazeal
    In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026
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2025

  1. AI Literacy
    Model AI Assignments 2025
    Todd W Neller, Rasika Bhalerao, Eun Kyung Ko, Vishodana Thamotharan, Lisa Zhang, Sonya Allin, Mahdi Haghifam, Michael Pawliuk, Rutwa Engineer, Florian Shkurti, and others
    In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025
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  2. Social Robotics
    Power Dynamics and Autonomy: Engaging Employees around the Design of Autonomous Agents
    Anastasia K Ostrowski, Lucy Gunther, Daniella DiPaola, and Cynthia Breazeal
    In 2025 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2025
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2024

  1. AI Literacy
    Constructing dreams using generative AI
    Safinah Ali, Prerna Ravi, Randi Williams, Daniella DiPaola, and Cynthia Breazeal
    In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024
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  2. HCI
    Empathy toward artificial intelligence versus human experiences and the role of transparency in mental health and social support chatbot design: Comparative study
    Jocelyn Shen, Daniella DiPaola, Safinah Ali, Maarten Sap, Hae Won Park, Cynthia Breazeal, and others
    JMIR Mental Health, 2024
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  3. Ethics and Policy
    Socio-digital vulnerability
    Daniella DiPaola and Ryan Calo
    Available at SSRN 4686874, 2024
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  4. AI Literacy
    AI mastery may not be for everyone, but AI literacy should be
    Fiona M Hollands, Daniella DiPaola, Cynthia Breazeal, and Safinah Ali
    In Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM Virtual Global Computing Education Conference V. 1, 2024
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  5. AI Literacy
    AI literacy as civic literacy: A case study of the “AI and human rights” curriculum for middle school students
    Daniella DiPaola, Marc Aidinoff, Angela Marzilli, Ethan Berman, Michael Champigny, Nate Gundy, Sarah Yezzi, and Cynthia Breazeal
    First Monday, 2024
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2023

  1. AI Literacy
    Integrating ethics and career futures with technical learning to promote AI literacy for middle school students: An exploratory study
    Helen Zhang, Irene Lee, Safinah Ali, Daniella DiPaola, Yihong Cheng, and Cynthia Breazeal
    International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2023
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  2. AI Literacy
    AI+ ethics curricula for middle school youth: Lessons learned from three project-based curricula
    Randi Williams, Safinah Ali, Nisha Devasia, Daniella DiPaola, Jenna Hong, Stephen P Kaputsos, Brian Jordan, and Cynthia Breazeal
    International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2023
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  3. AI Literacy
    AI literacy: Finding common threads between education, design, policy, and explainability
    Duri Long, Jessica Roberts, Brian Magerko, Kenneth Holstein, Daniella DiPaola, and Fred Martin
    In Extended abstracts of the 2023 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems, 2023
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  4. AI Literacy
    Make-a-thon for middle school AI educators
    Daniella DiPaola, Katherine S Moore, Safinah Ali, Beatriz Perret, Xiaofei Zhou, Helen Zhang, and Irene Lee
    In Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1, 2023
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  5. Social Robotics
    Children’s fundamental rights in human-robot interaction research: a systematic review
    Daniella DiPaola, Vicky Charisi, Cynthia Breazeal, and Selma Sabanovic
    In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE international conference on human-robot interaction, 2023
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  6. AI Literacy
    Dronescape: Designing an educational escape room for adult ai literacy
    Daniella DiPaola, Jocelyn Shen, Rachelle Hu, Sharifa Alghowinem, and Cynthia Breazeal
    In 2023 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 2023
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  7. AI Literacy
    An introduction to rule-based feature and object perception for middle school students
    Daniella DiPaola, Parker Malachowsky, Nancye Blair Black, Sharifa Alghowinem, Xiaoxue Du, and Cynthia Breazeal
    In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023
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2022

  1. Social Robotics
    Children’s perspectives of advertising with social robots: A policy investigation
    Daniella DiPaola, Anastasia K Ostrowski, Rylie Spiegel, Kate Darling, and Cynthia Breazeal
    In 2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2022
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  2. AI Literacy
    Computational Thinking Education in K–12: Artificial Intelligence Literacy and Physical Computing
    Daniella DiPaola, Blakeley H Payne, and Cynthia Breazeal
    2022
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2021

  1. AI Literacy
    Developing middle school students’ AI literacy
    Irene Lee, Safinah Ali, Helen Zhang, Daniella DiPaola, and Cynthia Breazeal
    In Proceedings of the 52nd ACM technical symposium on computer science education, 2021
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  2. AI Literacy
    Children as creators, thinkers and citizens in an AI-driven future
    Safinah Ali, Daniella DiPaola, Irene Lee, Victor Sindato, Grace Kim, Ryan Blumofe, and Cynthia Breazeal
    Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 2021
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  3. AI Literacy
    Exploring generative models with middle school students
    Safinah Ali, Daniella DiPaola, Irene Lee, Jenna Hong, and Cynthia Breazeal
    In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems, 2021
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  4. AI Literacy
    What are GANs?: introducing generative adversarial networks to middle school students
    Safinah Ali, Daniella DiPaola, and Cynthia Breazeal
    In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021
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2020

  1. AI Literacy
    Decoding design agendas: an ethical design activity for middle school students
    Daniella DiPaola, Blakeley H Payne, and Cynthia Breazeal
    In Proceedings of the interaction design and children conference, 2020
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2019

  1. Social Robotics
    Older adults living with social robots: promoting social connectedness in long-term communities
    Anastasia K Ostrowski, Daniella DiPaola, Erin Partridge, Hae Won Park, and Cynthia Breazeal
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 2019
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