Here are our latest publications detailing our findings, methodologies, and the impact of our interventions.  

    Journal 

1. Yu, S., Choi, K., Kim, J., Dong, J., Lee, Y., Haines, C. E., Newbill, P. L., Wyatt, A., Upthegrove, T., & Jeon, M. (accepted). Child-robot musical theater for STEAM education: A case study in early childhood classrooms. Early Childhood Education Journal.

2. Dong, J., Yu, S., Choi, K., & Jeon, M. (2025). A child-robot theater afterschool program can promote children's conceptualization of social robots' mental capacities and engagement in learning. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. Volume 12 - 2025 doi: 10.3389/frobt.2025.1529421  

3. Dong, J., Choi, K., Yu, S., Lee, Y., Kim, J., Vajir, D., Haines, C., Newbill, P., Wyatt, A., Upthegrove, T., & Jeon, M. (2023). A child-robot musical theater afterschool program for promoting STEAM education: A case study and guidelines, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 49(13), 3465-3481. 

4. Barnes, J., FakhrHosseini, S. M., Vasey, E., Park, C. H., & Jeon, M. (2020 Jan-March). Child-robot theater: Engaging elementary students in informal STEAM education using robots, IEEE Pervasive Computing, 19, 1, 22-31. https://10.1109/MPRV.2019.2940181 

    Book Chapters

1. Choi, K., & Jeon, M. (2025). Ch4. A Child-Robot Musical Theater for Diverse and Inclusive STREAMS Education for Young Children. In D. Huffman, K. R. Feldman, & I. R. Herrick (Eds.). STEM to STREAMS: Toward a More Equitable Vision of STEM Education. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.   

    Conference Proceedings

1. Dong, J., Mitchell, J. J., Yu, S., Harmon, M., Holstein, A., Shim, J. H., Choi, K., Zhu, Q., & Jeon, M. (2024). Promoting STEAM education and AI/Robot ethics in a child-robot theater afterschool program. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2024), Boulder, CO, March 11-15. IEEE.  

2.  Mitchell, J. J., Dong, J., Yu, S., Harmon, M., Holstein, A., Shim, J. H., Choi, K., Zhu, Q., & Jeon, M. (2024). Bridging the gap: Early education on robot and AI ethics through the robot theater platform in an informal learning environment. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2024), Boulder, CO, March 11-15. IEEE.  

3. Lee, Y., Wyatt, A., Dong, J., Upthegrove, T., Hale, B., Lyles, C. H., Choi, K., Kim. J., Yi, S., Vajir, D., Newbill, P., & Jeon, M. (2022). Robot musical theater for climiate change education. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2022), Online (originally Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan), March 7-10. 

4. Jeon, M. (2021). Potentials of robot-theater as a platform for integrated art, STEAM education, and HRI research. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR). Hybrid Conference, Gangwon-do, Korea, July 12-14. 

5. Nadri, C., Dong, J., Swaim, H., Ko, S., Sanghavi, H., & Jeon, M. (2020). Investigating the effects of demographics and framing on robot-theater summer youth programs. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's 2020 International Annual Meeting (HFES2020), Chicago, IL, October 5-9. 

6. Ko, S., Dong, J., Swaim, H., Nadri, C., Sanghavi, H., & Jeon, M. (2020). Robot-theater programs for different age groups to promote STEAM education and robotics research. Proceedings of the 15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2020), Cambridge, UK, March 23-26. 

7. Barnes, J., FakhrHosseini, S. M., Vasey, E., Park, C-H., & Jeon, M. (2019). Informal STEAM education case study: Child-robot musical theater. ACM CHI Extended Abstracts Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’19), ACM Press, Glasgow, UK, May 4-9. 

8. Barnes, J., FakhrHosseini, S. M., Vasey, E., Ryan, J., Park, C-H., & Jeon, M. (2019). Promoting STEAM education with child-robot musical theater. Video Abstract. Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2019), Daegu, South Korea, March 11-14, pp. 366-366. 

9.  Barnes, J., FakhrHosseini, M., Vasey, E., Duford, Z., & Jeon, M. (2017). Robot theater with children for STEAM education. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society International Annual Meeting (HFES2017), Austin, TX, October 9-13. 

10. Jeon, M., Barnes, J., FakhrHosseini, M., Vasey, E., Duford, Z., Zheng, Z., & Dare, E. (2017). Robot opera: A modularized afterschool program for STEAM education at local elementary school. Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI 2017), Jeju, Korea, June 28-July 1. 

11.  Barnes, J., FakhrHosseini, S. M., Duford, Z., Vasey, E., Ryan, J., & Jeon, M. (2017). Child-robot theater: STEAM education in an afterschool program, Adjunct Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2017). Vienna, Austria, March 6-9. 

12. Jeon, M., FakhrHosseini, S. M., Barnes, J., Duford, Z., Zhang, R., Ryan, J. & Vasey, E. (2016). Making live theatre with multiple robots as actors: Bringing robots to rural schools to promote STEAM education for underserved students, Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2016). New Zealand, March 7-10. 

    Theses

1. Barnes, J. (2023). Toward a longitudinal program of in situ social robotics research and informal steam education. Doctoral Dissertation. Department of Computer Science. Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI