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20242026
most citedBuild Your Own Robot Friend: An Open-Source Learning Module for Accessible and Engaging AI Education

4 citations · 5 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CL2026

PEDBench: Can Speech Models Detect Phonetic Errors?

Zhonghao Shi, Zackary Rackauckas, Jasmine Yip +9

Phonetic error detection (PED) aims to identify phoneme-level substitutions, deletions, and insertions and is essential for educational and clinical speech assessment and intervent…

cs.SD2026

ChildVox: A Speech, Audio, and Large Audio-Language Model Benchmark in Understanding and Characterizing Sound across Childhood

Tiantian Feng, Anfeng Xu, Xuan Shi +10

We present ChildVox, a novel benchmark for characterizing the diverse acoustic signals through which children communicate. Specifically, ChildVox follows the full developmental tra…

cs.RO2025

Personalized Socially Assistive Robots With End-to-End Speech-Language Models For Well-Being Support

Mengxue Fu, Zhonghao Shi, Minyu Huang +4

Socially assistive robots (SARs) have shown great potential for supplementing well-being support. However, prior studies have found that existing dialogue pipelines for SARs remain…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Examining Test-Time Adaptation for Personalized Child Speech Recognition

Zhonghao Shi, Xuan Shi, Anfeng Xu +4

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) models often experience performance degradation due to data domain shifts introduced at test time, a challenge that is further amplified for chil…

cs.HC2024

How Can Large Language Models Enable Better Socially Assistive Human-Robot Interaction: A Brief Survey

Zhonghao Shi, Ellen Landrum, Amy O' Connell +5

Socially assistive robots (SARs) have shown great success in providing personalized cognitive-affective support for user populations with special needs such as older adults, childr…

cs.CY2024★ 4 cited

Build Your Own Robot Friend: An Open-Source Learning Module for Accessible and Engaging AI Education

Zhonghao Shi, Allison O'Connell, Zongjian Li +5

As artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly important role in our society and global economy, AI education and literacy have become necessary components in college a…