Over the past decade, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) studies have explored ways to improve onsite museum visitor experience and foster interactive exhibitions. However, seldom studies have holistically looked at museum experiences including what ...

While Online Learning is growing and becoming widespread, the associated curricula often suffer from a lack of coverage and outdated content. In this regard, a key question is how to dynamically define the topics that must be covered to thoroughly ...

As young people increasingly use AI in their daily lives, it is imperative to foster these learners’ AI literacy. We present Knowledge Net, a collaborative tangible tabletop museum exhibit aimed at teaching users about knowledge representations, which ...

It is essential to increase children’s understanding of artificial intelligence and machine learning as they encounter it through their daily activities. We have developed DataBites, a museum exhibit aimed at fostering middle-school-age children’s ...

The increasing presence and importance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in our society has led to calls for its inclusion at all levels of education. However, the field is only beginning to understand what how AI learning experiences may be designed to ...

Learning companion robots for young children are increasingly adopted in informal learning environments. Although parents play a pivotal role in their children’s learning, very little is known about how parents prefer to incorporate robots into their ...

Fostering learners’ interest remains an important challenge in computer science (CS) education. In this paper, we explore how creative music-making, tangible interfaces, and embodiment can be used toward this end. The primary contribution of this paper ...

The rapid advancement of internet technology and its extensive integration into education have empowered learners to participate in diverse learning activities anytime and anywhere through online platforms. This integration has progressively blurred the ...

Online design communities, where members exchange free-form views on others' designs, offer a space for beginners to learn visual design. However, the content of these communities is often unorganized for learners, containing many redundancies and ...

Afterschool programs routinely provide or supplement Computer Science (CS) education to K-12 students in the United States. However, such opportunities are rarely available to students from low-income communities due to limited computing resources and CS ...

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes ubiquitous in children's lives, it is crucial to introduce new and effective ways to teach the younger generation about AI. This study describes the experience of training undergraduate students as middle school AI ...

Women in underserved communities of computing such as women of color, women in poverty, elderly women, women with disabilities, and mothers who prioritize their families over their careers have little to no access to training or career development in a ...

This paper introduces my PhD research on how a tangible and embodied technological layer can enhance and enlarge an existing public space to promote children’s informal learning (IFL). IFL is increasingly recognized as the basis for education, as ...

Over the past few years, there has been extensive discussion and research on social-emotional learning (SEL) in formal educational settings. However, there is limited research on SEL in informal learning contexts, including online sites such ...

Why have online artist communities largely rejected AI image generators when they have embraced other technologies? We focus on cooperative design and community values to first frame these communities as digital counterculture akin to ...

Computing education through informal (out-of-school-time) programs provide a pathway for students of all ages to learn introductory programming and enter computing careers. Many of these programs explicitly aim to broaden participation in computing ...

The hidden curriculum consists of the unwritten rules, unspoken norms, and field-specific insider knowledge that are essential for student success but are not taught in classes. Examples include social norms about how to interact with authority figures, ...

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have shown a great potential in creating, identifying, and trading digital ownership, and can be used to build the economics in the future metaverse. It is important for the users to understand the basic concepts of NFTs ...

During the past decade, there has been growing interest among researchers in informal learning at scale, particularly in the area of expert finding. These platforms have played a fundamental role in facilitating informal learning at scale, by providing ...

The arrival and development of digital technologies (e.g. the internet, personal computer) including mobile ones (e.g. smartphones) in recent years have raised both support for and concerns about the effects of adoption and usage on learning outcomes. ...