Shuqi Yu

• Virginia Tech

Research on integrating emerging technologies, such as robots, into K-12 education has been growing because of their benefits in creating engaging learning environments and preparing children for appropriate human-robot interactions in the future. However, most studies have focused on the impact of robots in formal educational settings, leaving the...

As discourse around mental illness (MI) becomes more common in popular media, little is known about stress responses to such depictions. In particular, personal narratives (e.g., first-person accounts) of MI are becoming more prevalent across social media. As individuals access social media at increasing rates, understanding how these accounts may...

With the advancements of machine learning and AI technologies, robots have been more widely used in our everyday life and they have also been used in education. The present study introduces a 12-week child-robot theater afterschool program designed to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education with art elements (STEA...

The inability to control or inhibit emotional distractors characterizes a range of psychiatric disorders. Despite the use of a variety of task paradigms to determine the mechanisms underlying the control of emotional interference, a precise characterization of the brain regions and networks that support emotional interference processing remains elu...