PUBLICATIONS

The effects of culturally congruent educational technologies on student achievement

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. (July, 2013). best paper award.

Oh, dear stacy! Social interaction, elaboration, and learning with teachable agents

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (May, 2012)

Rudeness and Rapport: Insults and Learning Gains in Peer Tutoring

Intelligent Tutoring Systems. (June, 2012)

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Modeling ethnicity into technology: Using virtual agents to understand sociolinguistic variation

Proceedings of New Ways of Analyzing Variation. (October, 2013)

Love ya, jerkface: using sparse log-linear models to build positive (and impolite) relationships with teens

Proceedings of the 13th annual meeting of the special interest group on discourse and dialogue. (July, 2012)

Educational Technologies to Support Linguistically Diverse Students, and the Challenges of Classroom Integration

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. (June, 2015)

SNAG: social networking games to facilitate interaction

Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (April, 2010)

Outreach for improved student performance: a game design and development curriculum

Proceedings of the 17th ACM annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education. (July, 2012)

Through the (thin-slice) looking glass: An initial look at rapport and co-construction within peer collaboration

International Society of the Learning Sciences. (June, 2017)

Investigating the Impact of Designing and Implementing Culturally Aligned Technological Systems on Educators’ Ideologies

Sixth International Workshop on Culturally-Aware Tutoring Systems at Artificial Intelligence in Education. (June, 2015)

Alex: A virtual peer that identifies student dialect

Workshop on culturally-aware technology enhanced learning. (September, 2013)

Real collaboration with a virtual peer: Results from co-design in an early elementary context

Proceedings of Workshop on Intelligent Support in Exploratory Environments at Intelligent Tutoring Systems. (June, 2012)

Investigating the influence of virtual peers as dialect models on students’ prosodic inventory

Interspeech symposium on Child-Computer Interaction. (August, 2012)

Evaluating visual query methods for articulated motion video search

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. (May, 2015)

Astrojumper: Motivating exercise with an immersive virtual reality exergame

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments. (February, 2011)

Evaluation of the cognitive effects of travel technique in complex real and virtual environments

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. (July, 2010)

cMotion: A game design to teach emotion recognition and programming logic using virtual humans

IEEE Virtual Reality. (March, 2009)

Leveraging change blindness for redirection in virtual environments

IEEE Virtual Reality. (March, 2011)

Impossible spaces: Maximizing natural walking in virtual environments with self-overlapping architecture

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. (April, 2012)

Designing a virtual reality exergame to motivate children with autism to exercise

IEEE Virtual Reality. (March, 2010)

Exploiting change blindness to expand walkable space in a virtual environment

IEEE Virtual Reality. (March, 2010)

SNAG: using social networking games to increase student retention in computer science

Proceedings of the annual conference on innovation and technology in computer science education. (June, 2010)

Evaluation of the exertion and motivation factors of a virtual reality exercise game for children with autism

Virtual and Augmented Assistive Technology (VAAT). (March, 2013)

Effects of redirection on spatial orientation in real and virtual environments

IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI). (March, 2011)

An approach to redirect walking by modifying virtual world geometry

IEEE Virtual Reality Workshop on Perceptual Illusions in Virtual Environments. (March, 2009)

Reaching out with game design

Proceedings of the fifth international conference on the Foundations of Digital Games. (June, 2010)

Effects of travel technique and gender on a divided attention task in a virtual environment

IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI). (March, 2010)

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