Keith Evan Green | Cornell Duffield Engineering

Biography

Keith Evan Green is a Professor at Cornell University in both the department of Human Centered Design and the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Prior to joining Cornell’s faculty, Green was Professor and Mickel Endowed Chair of Architecture and Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Clemson University, and founding director of the Clemson University Institute for Intelligent Materials, Systems and Environments. Green earned B.A., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Masters of Architecture degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a licensed architect and a Senior Member of IEEE.

Research Interests

Green founded the field of architectural robotics, designing physical environments that act, think, and grow with their inhabitants. These environments support and augment us as we work, play, learn, roam, discover, create, connect, heal, and age. Green’s ARCHITECTURAL ROBOTICS LAB (ARL) designs and understands rooms and their furnishings as robots that enable, support, and augment their occupants. Practically, the ARL builds “robot-rooms”—reconfigurable spaces that partner with people in everyday life. The ARL recognizes the built environment—from furniture and rooms to buildings and cities—as an inhabited form of intelligence. Through careful design and making, the lab develops new understandings of how we cohabitate with each other and the things around us. Green’s book Architectural Robotics: Ecosystems of Bits, Bytes and Biology (MIT Press) established the theoretical foundation for architectural robotics.

Robotics and Autonomy
Complex Systems, Network Science and Computation

Select Publications

Green, K. E. 2016. Architectural Robotics: Ecosystems of Bits, Bytes and Biology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Cañete, R., Kedar, Y., & Green, K. E. 2024. “e-MoBo, a Low-Cost, “Robo-Mediator” Helping Therapists Teach Children How to Express Emotions: Insights from Field Testing.” 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2024). “Kazuo Tanie” Best Paper Award.
Sabinson, E., Pradham, I., and Green, K. E. 2024. “With Every Breath You Take: Testing the Effects of Soft Robitic Surfaces on Attention and Stress.“ In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2024).
Guo, G, Leshed, G, and Green, K. E. 2023. “‘I normally wouldn’t talk with strangers’: Introducing a Socio-Spatial Interface for Fostering Togetherness Between Strangers.” In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23). Honorable Mention, Best Paper.
Schafer. G, Green, K. E., Walker, I. D., Fullerton, S. K. 2018. “Words Become Worlds: The LIT ROOM, a Literacy Support Tool at Room-Scale.” In Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’18) Best Paper.

Select Awards and Honors

The Jean and Douglas McLean Professor of Human Centered Design, Cornell University 2023
Best and Honorable Mention Papers at CHI’23 (ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems), IDC’20 (ACM Interaction Design & Children), and DIS’18 (ACM Designing Interactive Systems) 2023, 2020, 2018
Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2015
The Homer Curtis Mickel and Leola Carter Mickel Endowed Chair in Architecture, Clemson University 2015
Awarded the Fulbright Visiting Canadian Chair, Technology, Industry and the Environment 2014

Education

B.A., Psychology, University of Pennsylvania 1985
M.Arch., University of Illinois at Chicago 1990
Ph.D., Architecture, University of Pennsylvania

In the News

Space-making ‘robot rooms’ promise practicality, escape

Supported by a new three-year, $600,000 National Science Foundation grant and an industry partner, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering professor Keith Evan Green and collaborators are working on what they say is a next frontier in domestic human-machine interaction, a new category of space-making robots that people will inhabit.