I was an undergraduate researcher in the Personal Robots group at the Media Lab. I worked on Human Robot Interaction studies looking at socially assistive robots as well as how the framing of robots affects the way robots are perceived. I am a co-author on several papers from my work in the lab. 
Publications
1. Jacqueline Kory Westlund, Marayna Martinez, Madhurima Das, Maryam Archie, Cynthia Breazeal, “Effects of framing a robot as a social agent or as a machine on children’s social behavior,” 2016 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, March 2016, New Zealand.

2. Goren Gordon, Samuel Spaulding, Jacqueline Kory Westlund, Jin Joo Lee, Luke Plummer, Marayna Martinez, Madhurima Das, Cynthia Breazeal, "Affective Personalization of a Social Robot Tutor for Children’s Second Language Skills," Proceedings of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-16), February 12-17, 2016, Phoenix, Arizona. 

3. Jacqueline Kory Westlund, Goren Gordon, Samuel Spaulding, Jin Joo Lee, Luke Plummer, Marayna Martinez, Madhurima Das, Cynthia Breazeal,"Learning A Second Language with a Socially Assistive Robot," Newfriends 2015 Conference, Oct.22-23, 2015, Almere, The Netherlands.
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