Cynthia Breazeal

26.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
299 papers, 15.0k citations indexed

About

Cynthia Breazeal is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Artificial Intelligence and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Cynthia Breazeal has authored 299 papers receiving a total of 15.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 156 papers in Social Psychology, 104 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 60 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Cynthia Breazeal's work include Social Robot Interaction and HRI (135 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (40 papers) and AI in Service Interactions (36 papers). Cynthia Breazeal is often cited by papers focused on Social Robot Interaction and HRI (135 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (40 papers) and AI in Service Interactions (36 papers). Cynthia Breazeal collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia. Cynthia Breazeal's co-authors include Brian Scassellati, Guy Hoffman, Andrea L. Thomaz, Cory D. Kidd, Hae Won Park, Randi Williams, Jeff Lieberman, Jesse Gray, Safinah Ali and Daniella DiPaola and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PEDIATRICS and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Cynthia Breazeal

286 papers receiving 14.0k citations

Hit Papers

Designing Sociable Robots 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 2003 2003 2022 2021 250 500 750

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Cynthia Breazeal United States 64 8.0k 5.8k 3.2k 2.5k 2.0k 299 15.0k
Takayuki Kanda Japan 62 9.3k 1.2× 5.1k 0.9× 3.4k 1.0× 2.0k 0.8× 1.8k 0.9× 386 13.5k
Kerstin Dautenhahn United Kingdom 63 9.1k 1.1× 5.3k 0.9× 3.2k 1.0× 4.6k 1.8× 1.8k 0.9× 410 15.0k
Hiroshi Ishiguro Japan 67 10.9k 1.4× 5.8k 1.0× 4.4k 1.4× 4.0k 1.6× 2.8k 1.4× 953 19.1k
Brian Scassellati United States 45 5.1k 0.6× 3.3k 0.6× 1.9k 0.6× 2.8k 1.1× 1.1k 0.6× 195 9.9k
Jodi Forlizzi United States 64 5.2k 0.7× 3.0k 0.5× 1.4k 0.4× 1.5k 0.6× 7.1k 3.6× 244 15.0k
Maja J. Matarić United States 65 4.3k 0.5× 5.8k 1.0× 3.6k 1.1× 2.3k 0.9× 1.1k 0.6× 442 17.2k
Bilge Mutlu United States 49 3.9k 0.5× 2.3k 0.4× 1.4k 0.4× 1.2k 0.5× 1.9k 0.9× 206 6.9k
Christoph Bartneck New Zealand 41 4.8k 0.6× 3.1k 0.5× 968 0.3× 1.7k 0.7× 1.0k 0.5× 167 7.6k
Ana Paiva Portugal 38 3.4k 0.4× 2.6k 0.5× 751 0.2× 858 0.3× 768 0.4× 305 5.9k
Clifford Nass United States 55 6.5k 0.8× 4.9k 0.8× 406 0.1× 1.9k 0.7× 2.4k 1.2× 170 14.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Cynthia Breazeal

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Fields of papers citing papers by Cynthia Breazeal

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cynthia Breazeal

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Klopfer, Eric, Justin Reich, Hal Abelson, & Cynthia Breazeal. (2024). Generative AI and K-12 Education: An MIT Perspective. 7 indexed citations
2.
Castillo, Adriana Díaz del, et al.. (2024). Unveiling Voices: Boston Students' Data Activism Journey with Community Catalysts. 1–7. 1 indexed citations
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Ali, Safinah, et al.. (2024). Constructing Dreams Using Generative AI. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 38(21). 23268–23275. 25 indexed citations
4.
Alghowinem, Sharifa, et al.. (2023). Build-a-Bot: Teaching Conversational AI Using a Transformer-Based Intent Recognition and Question Answering Architecture. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 37(13). 16025–16032. 10 indexed citations
5.
DiPaola, Daniella, Vicky Charisi, Cynthia Breazeal, & Selma Šabanović. (2023). Children's Fundamental Rights in Human-Robot Interaction Research. 561–566. 5 indexed citations
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Spaulding, Samuel, et al.. (2021). Towards Transferrable Personalized Student Models in Educational Games. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. 1245–1253. 2 indexed citations
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Touretzky, David S., Christina Gardner‐McCune, Cynthia Breazeal, Fred Martin, & Deborah Seehorn. (2019). A Year in K–12 AI Education. AI Magazine. 40(4). 88–90. 64 indexed citations
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Bailey, Alison L., et al.. (2019). A robotic interface for the administration of language, literacy, and speech pathology assessments for children.. 41–42. 4 indexed citations
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Spaulding, Samuel, et al.. (2018). A Social Robot System for Modeling Children's Word Pronunciation: Socially Interactive Agents Track. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 1658–1666. 12 indexed citations
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Lee, Jin Joo, et al.. (2013). Modeling the Dynamics of Nonverbal Behavior on Interpersonal Trust for Human-Robot Interactions. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 11 indexed citations
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Shah, Julie, Brian Williams, & Cynthia Breazeal. (2010). Dynamic Execution of Temporal Plans for Temporally Fluid Human-Robot Teaming.. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1 indexed citations
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Breazeal, Cynthia & Matt Berlin. (2008). Spatial scaffolding for sociable robot learning. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1268–1273. 4 indexed citations
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Hoffman, Guy & Cynthia Breazeal. (2008). Anticipatory perceptual simulation for human-robot joint practice: theory and application study. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1357–1362. 16 indexed citations
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Kidd, Cory D. & Cynthia Breazeal. (2007). A robotic weight loss coach. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1985–1986. 44 indexed citations
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Berlin, Matt, et al.. (2006). Perspective taking: an organizing principle for learning in human-robot interaction. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1444–1450. 48 indexed citations
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Hoffman, Guy & Cynthia Breazeal. (2006). What Lies Ahead? Expectation Management in Human-Robot Collaboration.. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1–7. 2 indexed citations
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Breazeal, Cynthia, Guy Hoffman, & Andrea Lockerd. (2004). Teaching and Working with Robots as a Collaboration. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 4. 1030–1037. 91 indexed citations
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Breazeal, Cynthia, Daphna Buchsbaum, Jesse Gray, & Bruce Blumberg. (2003). Learning From and About Others: Towards Using Imitation to Bootstrap the Social Competence of Robots. 72(4). 935–9. 4 indexed citations
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Breazeal, Cynthia & Brian Scassellati. (2002). Robots that imitate humans. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 6(11). 481–487. 277 indexed citations
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Breazeal, Cynthia & Brian Scassellati. (1999). A Context-Dependent Attention System for a Social Robot. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 57(1). 1146–1151. 256 indexed citations

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