Ayanna Howard

Pilot Study For Examining Human-Robot Trust In Healthcare Interventions Involving Sensitive Personal Information

2017 · SMARTech Repository (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Socially interactive humanoid robots have been widely used in physical therapy and rehabilitation for children with motor disabilities. Previous studies have shown that embedding human-like behavior on a robotic playmate improves the efficacy of the …

Mitigating Bias in Large Language Models Through Culturally-Relevant LLMs

2025

With the proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) and its use across sectors that impact our civil liberties, the biases present in these language-based applications can propagate and amplify social inequalities and harmful stereotypes. In …