Agile Research Studios is a new socio-technical model for research training consisting of processes, tools, and social structures for orchestrating...

Current work: Networked learning communities (NLC’s) are spaces designed for their members to collaborate on work and benefit from each other’s...

Independent Development Plan explores the effectiveness of metacognitive reflection in supporting students in building their self-direction skills by...

As research groups expand in size, it becomes increasingly difficult for community members to identify the expertise within the community and the...

Pair Research is a platform that helps research studios pair students to help one another on their respective projects based on their reported task...

It is increasingly important to train novice innovators in the skills they need to lead the design and research of solutions to today’s most pressing...

This project specifically examines how to support student-researchers in improving their metacognitive processes as they work on independently-lead...

Undergraduate research experiences provide numerous personal, professional, and societal benefits, including enhancing student learning and...

Learning how to program is hard, and many students in introductory computer science courses (CS1) struggle to overcome programming challenges on...

Students studying computer science tend be ineffective planners who don't know the best practices for completing coding assignments and projects in...

Learning how to program is hard, and many students in introductory computer science courses struggle to overcome programming challenges on their own....

Q&A Buddy explores the metacognitive skill of help-seeking, and how we can best support it during CS1 office hours. We are designing and creating a...

Getting machines to support human experiences, desires, and goals requires imbuing them with representations of human situations that are beyond what...

A conceptualization of a human experience that works in one context or setting may not work in another. For instance, while “cafes” in European...

Training undergraduates in conducting authentic, independent research provides many benefits to the student, including learning the regulation skills...

We are interested in exploring technologies that can help mentors and mentees more effectively regulate their behaviors in-the-moment to maximize the...

Networked learning communities in research settings provide students with many venues in which to help-seek or make research progress, but it is...

Working well in networked communities requires that its members learn to access the support opportunities available for their needs, but this can be...

Work and learning communities have become increasingly networked to support their members in developing the skills to solve complex, real-world...

Mentors must be able to provide coaching to students when they are using ineffective network access strategies, but this remains difficult without...

Today’s problems across domains like research, engineering, and public policy are challenging, complex, and often ill-defined. In lieu of these...

In the fast-paced realm of education, mentors and mentees grapple with identifying and addressing issues to improve work practices. Our project,...

We are exploring interactions, algorithms and architectures that will allow us to interact programmatically with objects in our physical environments...

Collective Experiences is a novel platform that coordinates people in real spaces in real time to participate in experiences. For example, if we...

Opportunistic Collective Experiences (OCEs) are social experiences powered by computer programs that create shared, interactional spaces from...

The process of creating stories with others is highly engaging but labor-intensive, especially because satisfying narratives often require a central...

Screenshots of the Cerebro app that highlight the process in which users participate in shared activities while in a shared affordance.

Dedicating...

While opportunistic interactions are a promising way of promoting shared activities across space and time that fits into the routines of people’s...

With the emergence of social media platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat, etc, sharing stories has become an essential part of people’s everyday...

Professional websites contain rich interactive features that developers can learn from, yet understanding their implementation remains a challenge...

Though options exist for learning web development skills independently, it is still difficult for intermediate web developers to learn to author...

Online tutorial platforms with rich curation like Codecademy's “make airbnb” help learners acquire new programming techniques by offering them rich...

Knowledge Maps encourages novice web developers to construct conceptual models by way of analyzing the code of professional web features. The...

Aspiring programmers have written millions of lines of code using online tutorial platforms such as Codeacademy, but none of this code will ever be...

Professional websites with complex UI features provide real world examples for developers to learn from. Yet despite the availability of source code,...

Despite the ease of inspecting HTML and CSS, web developers struggle to identify the code most responsible for particular stylistic effects, due to...

Novices struggle to understand professional web architectures 🖥️. Professional sites can be good learning resources because they are inspectable 🧐,...

RQ1: Can highlighting and annotating design patterns help intermediate developers see how and why they are used in professional codebases?

RQ2: Can...

Developing an online question answering platform that promotes deeper, more meaningful interactions between people – essentially skipping the small...

In this project we explore the use of mixed-fidelity (paper and digital) prototype design as a method for prototyping and testing mobile applications...

Rift Together explores interactions between two people — one omniscient "brain" wearing the Oculus Rift and directing the other, who is in real life...

Information sharing a core focus of many online systems, and within these systems information is shared either through established social ties and...

Beginning and novice web developers often have trouble working through personal projects without the help of more experienced peers and mentors....

RPPT enables designers to wizard paper prototypes from afar while a user tests the prototype in realistic scenarios, out of the lab. The user tester...

Lake is an iOS app that allows designers to prototype mobile applications with complex functionality at low cost. By allowing designers to manipulate...

Yo* is a collective experience game based around forming shapes in real spaces. Players work collaboratively to form shapes on a map with their...

How can we use smart reminder systems to help people accomplish long-term personal goals, such as building habits? This project uses the idea of...

Current approaches to physical crowdsourcing focuses on one person contributing full reports for participatory sensing. These approaches focus on...

Figure: Illustration of the search distribution coverage across task delivery mechanisms for on-the-go crowds. Tall black bars denote wasted effort;...

Initial quarterly wrap-up video. Features the landmark opportunistic coffee delivery application, Caffeine Rush, which was created to explore what...

Recent years have seen the growth of physical crowdsourcing systems (e.g., Uber; TaskRabbit) that motivate large numbers of people to provide new and...

Libero utilizes people’s existing routine for package delivery by incorporating just-in-time notifications in hopes of reducing task distance to an...

Participatory sensing systems in which people actively participate in the data collection process must account for both the needs of data...

On-the-go tasking systems, such as peer-to-peer food delivery or package delivery systems, help volunteers complete tasks for other users along their...

CrowdFound, a mobile crowdsourcing system to find lost items. CrowdFound allows users to input lost item descriptions on a map and then sends...

On-the-go physical crowdsourcing systems aim to take advantage of users' everyday routines to complete tasks for other community members. For...

The pervasiveness of sensor-rich mobile devices enables citizens to contribute to sensing and data collection efforts by participating in citizen...

Recent developments in citizen science, community sensing, and crowdsourcing suggest the possibilities of massive data collection about the natural...

Building a habit is often a challenging task for many individuals. Our project, Dynamic Habit sourcing, investigates how dynamic habit sourcing...

Natural Patterns uses an experience of recognizing, detecting, and reasoning about patterns in nature to promote a new form of citizen science -- one...

While students may master a concept in one learning context, research shows that they often have trouble transferring that knowledge into a new...

Existing computer science programs do not emphasize the teaching of programming problem solving skills to novice programmers. However, programming...

Can you learn chemistry from your phone? Can it be fun? What are the components that allow learning or allow people to be

AFR aims to create a peer reviewing platform that allows students to receive actionable, timely, succinct and useful feedback in order to improve on...

Research has shown that rewarding or promoting a growth mindset in math has increased user engagement time, users’ quality and quantity of problem...

Research has shown that metacognition, or the process of thinking about thinking, helps people learn better. Metacognitive Behavior Tracking seeks to...

The practice of meditation can benefit a person’s well-being through the development of a state of mindfulness and acceptance. ZenWalk is a guided...

ZombieRun Interactive is a habitsourcing iPhone application that aims to leverage a user’s running habit to collect information about the world,...

People in groups and communities are often willing, available, and able to support others’ needs. For example, a graduate student in a research...

Hockey coaches like to show their players game film in order to teach them important lessons about their play. The more players watch film of...

Millions of people around the world regularly develop and practice personal habits such as running and meditation. These practices reduce sedentary...

Humans have the innate ability to easily explore their surroundings. With sensor-rich mobile devices, everyday people can become data contributors by...