Cynthia Lynn (Ferrell) Breazeal (born 1967) is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she is the director of the Personal Robots Group (formerly the Robotic Life Group) at the MIT Media Laboratory. She is best known for her work in human-computer interaction.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Books 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Biography

Breazeal received her B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1989.

Breazeal received her S.M. in 1993 and her Sc.D. in 2000 in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.

Breazeal developed the robot Kismet as a doctoral research project looking into expressive social exchange between humans and humanoid robots.

Breazeal has developed:

• planetary micro-rovers
• upper-torso humanoid robots
• expressive robotic faces
• plant-like robots

In 2004, Breazeal was the lead researcher on the Sociable Machines project focusing on social interaction and socially situated learning between people and humanoid robots. She also had a prominent role as a virtual participant in a popular exhibit on robots at the Boston Museum of Science, interacting with a real C-3PO and R2-D2 as she spoke to the audience through a pre-recorded message displayed on a large plasma flat-screen display.

[edit] Books

• Breazeal, Cynthia (2002). Designing Sociable Robots. The MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-02510-8. 
• Brown, Jordan (2005). Robo World: The Story of Robot Designer Cynthia Breazeal. The Joseph Henry Press. ISBN 0-309-09556-5. 

[edit] See also

• Rodney Brooks
• Cyberflora

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Home page
• Association for Computing Machinery Video Interviews with Cynthia Breazeal
• Featured on PBS' Nova
• iWASwondering.org Cynthia Breazeal featured on kids Website encouraging young people to pursue science.