Modular Missions: A series of seven interlinked modules designed to teach SEL concepts around 14 core themes, from Being King to Being a Good Sport. In this mission on Being Different, Moxie and the child must help one of Moxie’s robot friends choreograph a performance for a talent show.

The above shows the flow for Modular Missions (Evaluated) — a end-of-mission review of the content Moxie and the child experienced in the previous six missions. Modular Missions were AI-generated versions of older, scripted scenarios.

Create-a-Story: In this mission about Being Different, Moxie and the child collaborating on a story about teamwork and how one’s differences can help others.

Jokes: Moxie tells jokes! The child can also ask Moxie to tell a joke which Moxie responds to.

Composing: Moxie creates a piece of music based on the child's selection of different instruments: strings, woodwinds, brass instruments and percussion.

Scavenger Hunt: a game where Moxie asks the child to find a variety of common items around their home, either by name (“a book”) or by quality (“something blue”).

Ocean Explorer: a roleplaying activity where the child and Moxie pretend to be sea creatures exploring marine habitats and learning about the geology, flora and fauna of those locations — not to mention a healthy dose of adventure and mystery!

Rock-Paper-Scissors: The child and Moxie play a classic game of Rock-Paper-Scissors.

Word Chain: a creative activity based on word association. Moxie prompts the child with a word based on a theme (e.g., "Being Different" or "Being Kind") and the child responds with a word related to Moxie's word to create a word chain. After several rounds, Moxie ends the game with a poem incorporating their word chain.

 

Moxie is an AI companion robot designed to help children grow, learn, and play using the CASEL framework for social-emotion learning. Character performance was a combination of scripted performance using a Unity-based markup tool and AI-generated emotional states and gestures. Content was developed using Chatscript, Python, Google Sheets, ChatGPT and LangFlow. Because Moxie’s primary audience was children ages 5-10 with special needs and MBDD, we gave special attention to writing and testing safety restrictions, generating relevant and accurate therapeutic content, and establishing a consistent and accurate knowledge base about Moxie’s physical body, personality and history.