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

    Journal 

1. 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  

2. 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. 

3. 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