ICAT Playdate: Reimagining Early Learning Through AI-Enhanced Parent-Child Playful Joint Reading
Ended Feb 28, 2025
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Term: Spring 2025
Date: February 28th, 2025
Time: 8:30am - 9:30am
Location: Community Assembly in the Creativity + Innovation District Living-Learning Community
Instructor: Phyllis Newbill
Presented By: Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT)
Description:
Our TaleMate project aims to design and evaluate a program that leverages AI voice agents to bring storybooks to life, allowing parents and children to choose and role-play characters, select diverse AI-generated voices, and follow prompts for dialogic interaction. This study explores TaleMate’s potential to foster playful engagement, transforming digital reading into an opportunity for meaningful parent-child interaction and cognitive growth. With its adaptability across devices like tablets, smartphones, and smart speakers, we expect TaleMate to provide a scalable, affordable solution that supports early literacy development and creative learning for families, educators, and librarians.
Speakers:
• Koeun Choi (PI, Human Development and Family Science)
• Sang Won Lee (Co-PI, Computer Science)
• Caroline Hornburg (Co-PI, Human Development and Family Science)
• Students
• Mahmut Sami Gürdal (Ph.D. Student, Human Development and Family Science)
• Meryem Şeyda Özcan (Ph.D. Student, Human Development and Family Science)
• Maegan Colbert (Ph.D. Student, Human Development and Family Science)
• Shuqi Yu (Ph.D. Student, Human Development and Family Science)
• Jing Chen (Ph.D. Student, Human Development and Family Science)
• Daniel Vargas Diaz (Former M.S. Student, Computer Science)
• Sulakna Karunaratna (Former M.S. Stude