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Hummingbird Robotics Kit Research Articles
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Debra Bernstein, Gillian Puttick, Kristen Wendell, Fayette Shaw, Ethan Danahy & Michael Cassidy, Designing biomimetic robots: iterative development of an integrated technology design curriculum , In Educational Technology Research and Development, 2021.
Jennifer Cross, Creative Robotic Systems for Talent-Based Learning (Doctoral dissertation), 2017.
Jennifer Cross, Chris Bartley, Emily Hamner, and Illah Nourbakhsh, Student Outcomes from the Evaluation of a Transdisciplinary Middle School Robotics Program , In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2017.
Debra Bernstein, K. Mutch-Jones, M. Cassidy, Emily Hamner, and Jennifer Cross, Robots and Romeo and Juliet: Studying Teacher Integration of Robotics into Middle School Curricula , In 2016 International Conference of the American Educational Research Association, 2016.
Jennifer Cross, Emily Hamner, Lauren Zito, Illah Nourbakhsh and Debra Bernstein, Development of an assessment for measuring middle school student attitudes towards robotics activities , 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2016.
Jennifer Cross, Emily Hamner, Lauren Zito, and Illah Nourbakhsh, Engineering and Computational Thinking Talent in Middle School Students: a Framework for Defining and Recognizing Student Affinities . In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2016.
Emily Hamner, Lauren Zito, Jennifer Cross, Brett Slezak, Sue Mellon, H. Harapko, and M. Welter, Utilizing Engineering to Teach Non-Technical Disciplines : Case Studies of Robotics within Middle School English and Health Classes , In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2016.
Emily Hamner, Jennifer Cross, Lauren Zito, Debra Bernstein, and K. Mutch-Jones, Training Teachers to Integrate Engineering into Non- Technical Middle School Curriculum . In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2016.
Jennifer Cross, Emily Hamner, Lauren Zito, and Illah Nourbakhsh, Arts & Bots: Application and Outcomes of a Secondary School Robotics Program , IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2015.
Jennifer Cross and Emily Hamner, Identifying and Cultivating Diverse STEM Talent through Creative Robotics , American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, 2014.
Jennifer Cross, Chris Bartley, Emily Hamner, and Illah Nourbakhsh, A visual robot-programming environment for multidisciplinary education , Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2013 IEEE International Conference on , vol., no., pp.445,452, 2013.
Emily Hamner and Jennifer Cross, Arts & Bots: Techniques for distributing a STEAM robotics program through K-12 classrooms , Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC), 2013.
Kimberley Gomez, Debra Bernstein, Jolene Zywica, and Emily Hamner, Building Technical Knowledge and Engagement in Robotics: An Examination of two Out-of-School Programs, B. Barker, G. Nugent, N. Grandgenett, & V. Adamchuk (Eds.), Robots in K-12 Education: A New Technology for Learning (pp. 222-244), Information Science Reference, 2012.
Tom Lauwers, Aligning Capabilities of Interactive Educational Tools to Learner Goals (Doctoral dissertation), Carnegie Mellon, 2010.
Emily Hamner, Tom Lauwers, and Debra Bernstein, The Debugging Task: Evaluating a Robotics Design Workshop , AAAI Spring Symposium on Educational Robotics and Beyond: Design and Evaluation, 2010.
Debra Bernstein, Developing technological fluency through creative robotics (Doctoral dissertation), 2010.
Emily Hamner, Tom Lauwers, Debra Bernstein, Kristen Stubbs, Kevin Crowley, and Illah Nourbakhsh, Robot Diaries Interim Project Report: Development of a Technology Program for Middle School Girls , tech. report CMU-RI-TR-08-25, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2008.
Emily Hamner, Tom Lauwers, Debra Bernstein, Illah Nourbakhsh, and Carl Francis DiSalvo, Robot Diaries: Broadening Participation in the Computer Science Pipeline through Social Technical Exploration , AAAI Spring Symposium on Using AI to Motivate Greater Participation in Computer Science, 2008.
Illah Nourbakhsh, C. DiSalvo, Emily Hamner, Tom Lauwers, and Debra Bernstein, Robot Diaries: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Design and Evaluate Educational Robotics , In Proceedings of the 2007 AAAI Spring Symposium: Multidisciplinary Collaboration for Socially Assistive Robotics, 2007.
Finch Robot Research Articles
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Sotirios Kentros, Manish Wadhwa, Lakshmidevi Sreeramareddy, Komalpreet Kaur, Marc Ebenfield, and Allan Shwedel, Course redesign to improve retention: finding the optimal mix of instructional approaches , Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 34 Issue 6, pg 97-106, April 2019.
Sotirios Kentros, Manish Wadhwa, Lakshmidevi Sreeramareddy, and Komalpreet Kaur, Improving Retention through Team-Based Learning Finch Labs and Peer-Educators in Intro to Programming , SIGCSE ’19 Proceedings, pg 1287-1287, Feb 2019.
Robert J Calin-Jageman, Cartoon Network Update: New Features for Exploring of Neural Circuits , The Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education (JUNE), Spring 2018, 16(3):A195-A196.
Robert J Calin-Jageman, Cartoon Network: A Tool for Open-ended Exploration of Neural Circuits , The Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education (JUNE), Spring 2018, 14(2): A1-A3.
Cecily Heiner, A Robotics Experience for All the Students in an Elementary School , SIGCSE ’18 Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2018.
Anja Remshagen and Christine Rolka, Contextualized learning tools: animations and robots , ACM SE ’14 Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Southeast Regional Conference, Article 5, March 2014.
Sarah B. Lee, Rian B. Walker, Engaging Middle School Girls in Computing with a Project-based Summer Experience , ASEE Southeast Section Conference, 2014.
Anne-Marie Eubanks, Robert G. Strader, Introduction to programming with the Finch robot: pre-conference workshop , Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges archive, Volume 27 Issue 4, Pages 5-5, 2012.
Tom Lauwers, Designing the Finch: Creating a Robot Aligned to Computer Science Concepts , Proceedings of the First Symposium on Educational Applications of AI, 2010.
Tom Lauwers, Aligning Capabilities of Interactive Educational Tools to Learner Goals (Doctoral dissertation), Carnegie Mellon, 2010.
Tom Lauwers, Emily Hamner, and Illah Nourbakhsh, A strategy for collaborative outreach: lessons from the CSbots project , SIGCSE Proceedings, pg 315-319, 2010.
Tom Lauwers, Illah Nourbakhsh, and Emily Hamner, CSbots: Design and Deployment of a Robot Designed for the CS1 Classroom , SIGCSE Proceedings, 2009.
Tom Lauwers, Illah Nourbakhsh, and Emily Hamner, CSbots: A case study in introducing educational technology to a classroom setting , tech. report CMU-RI-TR-08-41, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2008.
Owlet Math Collection Research Articles (Glow & Cube)
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Jennifer Cross, Bambi Brewer, Emily Hamner, Lauren Zito, Samantha Speer, Michael Tasota, Molly Johnson, Tom Lauwers, and Illah Nourbakhsh, Leveraging tangible interfaces in primary school math: Pilot testing of the Owlet math program , International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction , v.27 , 2021
Jennifer Cross, Bambi Brewer, Emily Hamner, Lauren Zito, Samantha Speer and Michael Tasota
Pilot Results of a Digital Manipulative for Elementary Mathematics , Conference Paper, Proceedings of American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (AERA ’20), December, 2020
Emily Hamner, Lauren Zito, Jennifer Cross, Michael Tasota, Paul Dille, Stephen Fulton, Molly Johnson, Illah Nourbakhsh and Joshua Schapiro, Development and results from user testing of a novel robotics kit supporting systems engineering for elementary-aged students , Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE ’17), October, 2017
Bambi Brewer and Emily Hamner, A Review of Primary Math Curricula , Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-20-56, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2020
Samantha Speer, Grounding Abstract Concepts Through Robotic Manipulatives , Master’s Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-20-18, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2020