Keith Evan Green

About

Keith Evan Green, R.A., Ph.D., is the Jean and Douglas McLean Professor of Human Centered Design at Cornell University. He is also a professor in Cornell's Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Robotics@Cornell, and the Graduate Field in Information Science. Green is a professionally licensed architect with degrees in architecture and psychology. He is the founder of the field of architectural robotics, which involves designing physical environments that act, think, and grow with their inhabitants. His book, Architectural Robotics: Ecosystems of Bits, Bytes and Biology (MIT Press), established the theoretical foundation for this field. Green's work has been extensively published in ACM and IEEE venues, and he has trained a generation of PhD students who now teach at leading R1 universities. At Cornell, he served as department chair and co-led the creation of the Department of Human Centered Design, which combined two smaller design programs. Previously, Green was a tenured full professor in Architecture and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University and held a tenured position in Architecture at the University of Auckland. Early in his career, he directed Clemson's architecture program in Barcelona and later founded Clemson's Institute for Intelligent Materials, Systems, & Environments and its associated Digital Ecologies graduate concentration. An award-winning architect, Green received the Schiff Foundation Prize in Architecture and Design…

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Human–computer interaction
• Psychology
• Engineering
• Medicine
• Operations management
• Physical medicine and rehabilitation
• Mechanical engineering
• Programming language

Selected publications

• Plant-Human Embodied Biofeedback (pheB): A Soft Robotic Surface for Emotion Regulation in Confined Physical Space

  2021 · 35 citations

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  “pheB,” is a robotic “plant-human, embodied, biofeedback” system to support the wellbeing of human inhabitants in confined, physical spaces. This surface aims to increase users’ emotion regulation and foster connections with nature by visualizing the internal states of plants through tactile, expressive movement. Unlike 2D biofeedback visualization models currently in use, our research explores mindfulness practices through immersive, tangible interactions to increase therapeutic effectiveness.…

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• “I normally wouldn’t talk with strangers”: Introducing a Socio-Spatial Interface for Fostering Togetherness Between Strangers

  2023-04-19 · 21 citations

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  Interacting with strangers can be beneficial but also challenging. Fortunately, these challenges can lead to design opportunities. In this paper, we present the design and evaluation of a socio-spatial interface, SocialStools, that leverages the human propensity for embodied interaction to foster togetherness between strangers. SocialStools is an installation of three responsive stools on caster wheels that generate sound and imagery in the near environment as three strangers sit on them, move t…

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• Are Space-making Robots, Agents? Investigations on User Perception of an Embedded Robotic Surface

  2020 · 9 citations

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  Novel, "space-making" robots have potential to redefine physical space and the human activities occurring in it. Categorically distinct from many robots and far removed from humanoids, space-making robots are not objects in space, not anthropomorphic, not animal-like, not mobile, but instead, integral with the physical environment, embedded in or forming walls, ceilings, floors, partitions, vehicle interiors, and building envelopes. Given their distinctiveness, space-making robots offer a novel…

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• With Every Breath: Testing the Effects of Soft Robotic Surfaces on Attention and Stress

  2024-03-10 · 8 citations

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  We report on the effects of a novel soft robot of our design on emotional wellbeing. Participants (N=94) engaged with our soft robotic surface designed to simulate the benefits of nature and provide a therapeutic behavioral intervention. The study assessed group differences in attention, perceived restorativeness, and self-reported stress between three groups: a group that performed a breathing exercise with the robot, a group that watched the robot perform an ocean-inspired movement designed to…

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• MirrorBot: Exploring Socio-Spatial Interactions that Foster Serendipitous Human Connections Through Robotic Mirrors

  2025-04-23 · 6 citations

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Recent grants

• EAGER: The LIT ROOM - A Networked Suite of Architectural-Robotic Artifacts Embedded in the Library for Advancing Literacy in Children

  NSF · $200k · 2013–2016

• SHB: Small: An Assistive, Robotic Table [ART] Promoting Independent Living

  NSF · $271k · 2011–2015

• SCH: EXP: Home+, An Intelligent and Interoperable Suite of Robotic Furnishings, Learning and Evolving with Their Users

  NSF · $606k · 2016–2021

Frequent coauthors

• Ian D. Walker

  University of Wyoming

  23 shared

• Johnell O. Brooks

  11 shared

• Anthony L. Threatt

  10 shared

• Yixiao Wang

  Wuhan University of Technology

  9 shared

• Deanna Kocher

  Sibley Memorial Hospital

  8 shared

• Jessica Merino

  Clemson University

  7 shared

• Paul Yanik

  Western Carolina University

  7 shared

• Elena Sabinson

  University of Colorado Boulder

  6 shared

Education

• PhD

  University of Pennsylvania

Awards & honors

• Honorable Mention Best Paper, 2023 CHI Conference on Human F…
• Kazuo Tanie Best Paper Award, 2018 Designing Interactive Sys…
• Best Paper, 2020 Interaction Design and Children (IDC '20 Ex…
• Best Demo Paper, 2014 IEEE Pervasive Computing
• Best Paper, 2014 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computin…

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