2024
Lowy, R., Magiawala, K., Mittal, S., Hall, K., Roberts, J., Kim, J. (2024). Research-Education Partnerships: A Co-Design Classroom for College Students with IDD. To appear in proceedings of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 2024.
Quinto-Lima, S. and Roberts, J. (2024). Potentials of Extended Reality Technologies Applied to K-12 Scientific Inquiry Education. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Learning Design and Technologies. Delft, the Netherlands. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3663433.3663437
Bellona, J., Li, H., Roberts, J., Bower, A., Smith, L. (2024). Iterative Design of Auditory Displays Involving Data Sonifications and Authentic Ocean Data. Accepted for presentation at the 29th International Conference of Auditory Display. Troy, NY, USA. https://icad2024.icad.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ICAD_2024_paper_2.pdf
Boone, A. and Roberts., J. (2024) Twitter Talk: Informal Learning in Public Responses to Science Communication. In Proceedings 2024 International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL). Buffalo, NY, USA. https://2024.isls.org/proceedings/
Kafai, Y., Proctor, C., Shapiro, B., Desportes, K., Tseng, T., Hoadley, C., Roberts, J. Lee, V., Delaney, V., and Grover, S. (2024) What does it mean to be literate in the time of AI? Different Perspectives on Computational Literacies for K-12 Education. In Proceedings 2024 International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS). Buffalo, NY, USA. https://2024.isls.org/proceedings/
Belghith, Y., Goloujeh, A.,} Magerko, B., Long, D., McKlin, T., and Roberts, J. (2024). Testing, Socializing, Exploring: Characterizing Middle Schoolers’ Approaches to and Conceptions of ChatGPT. In Proceedings CHI2024, Honolulu Hawaii, USA. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642332
2023
Henneman, L., Choirat, C., Dedoussi, I., Dominici, F., Roberts, J., & Zigler, C. (2023). Mortality risk from United States coal electricity generation. Science, 382(6673), 941-946. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adf4915
Smith, L., Bower, A., Roberts, J. Bellona, J., Li, Huaigu (to appear). Expanding Access to Ocean Science through Inclusively Designed Data Sonifications. Accepted for publication in Oceanography.
Bewersdorff, A., Zhai, X., Roberts, J., & Nerdel, C. (2023). Myths, mis-and preconceptions of artificial intelligence: A review of the literature. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 100143.
Li, H., J. Bellona, L. Smith, A. Bower, and Roberts, J.. (2023). “Let the Volcano Erupt!“: Designing Sonification to Make Oceanography Accessible for Blind and Low Vision Students in Museum Environment. In The 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS’23), October 22–25, 2023, New York, NY, USA. 6 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597638.3614482.
Roberts, J., Lowy, R., Li, H., Smith, L., Bellona, J., and Bower, A. (2023). Breaking Down the Visual Barrier: Designing Data Interactions for the Visually Impaired in Informal Learning Settings. In Proceedings 2023 International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL). Montreal, QC, Canada.
Belghith, Y., Kim, J., Alemdar, M., Moore, R., Rosen, J., Riedl, M., and Roberts, J. (2023). Problem-solving or solved problems: Constricting design challenges in high-school engineer- ing education to avoid (disruptive) failures. In Proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences-ICLS 2023, International Society of the Learning Sciences [ISLS]. Montreal, QC, Canada.
Long, D., Roberts, J., Magerko, B., Holstein, K., DiPaulo, D., Martin, F. (2023). AI Literacy: Finding Common Threads between Education, Design, Policy, and Explainability. Workshop presented at CHI 2023, Hanover, Germany.
Belghith, Y., Moore, R., Alemdar, M., Rosen, J., Riedl, M., and Roberts, J. (2023). Examining hard and soft skill prioritization in high-school engineering education. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Researchers Association. AERA 2023. Chicago, IL.
2022
Baione, S., Lyu, Y., Reinert, A., & Roberts, J. (2022). Crossroads: a transgender education platform for Greek life students. Journal of LGBT Youth, 1-25.
Mansi, G., Kim, S., & Roberts, J. (2022). Ready, Set, Art: Technology Needs and Tools for Remote K-2 Art Education. In Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC). Braga, Portugal. ACM.
Mansi, G., Boone, A., Kim, S. & Roberts, J. (2022). Chameleon Clippers: A Tool for Developing Fine Motor Skills in Remote Education Settings. In Proceedings 2022 International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL). Hiroshima, Japan and online.
Bower, A., Bellona, J., Roberts, J., Smith, L. 2022. Accessible Oceans: Exploring Ocean Data Through Sound (ED12A-03), presented at 2022 AGU Fall Meeting, 12-16 December, Chicago, IL.
Henneman, L., Choirat, C., Dedoussi, I., Dominici, F., Roberts, J., Zigler, C. (2022) 22 Years of Coal Pollution and Premature Deaths in the Medicare Population. Presented at the 2022 AGU Fall Meeting, 12-16 December. Chicago, IL.
Roberts, J., & Leinart, K. (2022) How Big was a Triceratops, Really? Using Augmented Reality to Support Collaborative Reasoning about Scale. In Tissenbaum et al. Learning at the intersection of physical spaces and technology. Symposium conducted at the 2022 International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL). Hiroshima, Japan and online.
2021
Cafaro, F., and Roberts, J. (2021). Data Through Movement: Designing Embodied Human-Data Interaction for Informal Learning.
Mansi, G., MacIntyre, B., & Roberts, J. (2021). Embodiment and Social Interactions in a Class Virtual Reality Poster Session. Accepted in Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. Bochem, Germany.
Roberts, J. and Cafaro, F. (2021). Embodiment for Supporting Organic Human-Data Learning Interactions. In Human-Data Interactions. Workshop conducted at IEEE VIS’21 (online).
Cui, C., Hill, J., Louw, M., and Roberts, J. (April 2021) Using Log Visualizations to Interpret Online Interactions during Self-Quizzing Practice for Taxonomic Identification. Poster presented at the 2021 American Educational Researchers Association annual meeting. Orlando, FL.
2020
Jorian, N., Roberts, J., Bowers, A., Tissenbaum, M., Lyons, L., Kumar, V., Berland, M (2020) Uncovering Patterns in Constructionist Collaborative Learning Activities via Cluster Analysis of Museum Exhibit Log Files. Frontline Learning Research
Roberts, J. & Lyons, L. (2020). Examining Spontaneous Perspective-Taking and Fluid Self-to-Data Relationships in Informal, Open-Ended Data Exploration. Journal of the Learning Sciences. DOI 10.1080/10508406.2019.1651317
Matuk, C., Yoon, S., Polman, J., Amato, A., Barton, J., Bulalacao, N. M., Cafaro, F., Haldar, L. C., Cottone, A., Cortes, K., DesPortes, K., Erickson, T., Finzer, W., Taylor, K. H., Herbel-Eisenmann, B., Graville, C., Gutiérrez, K., Higgins, T., Himes, B., Lanouette, K., Lee, H., Lim, V., Lopez, M. L., Lyons, L., Milz, D., Olivares, M. C., Osche, E., Parikh, T. S., Philip, T., Rubel, L., Shelley, J., Rivero, E., Roberts, J., Roberto, C., Petrosino, T., Rubin, A., Shim, J., Silander, M., Sommer, S., Stokes, D., Tes, M., Trajkova, M., Urbanowicz, R., Vacca, R., Van Wart, S., Vasudevan, V., Wilkerson, M., & Woods, P. J. (2020). Data Literacy for Social Justice. In Gresalfi, M. and Horn, I. S. (Eds.), The Interdisciplinarity of the Learning Sciences, 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2020, Volume 1 (pp. 343-349). Nashville, Tennessee: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
2019
Roberts, J. & Lyons, L. (2019). Examining Spontaneous Perspective-Taking and Fluid Self-to-Data Relationships in Informal, Open-Ended Data Exploration. Journal of the Learning Sciences. DOI 10.1080/10508406.2019.1651317
Sanford-Dolly, C., Louw, M., & Roberts, J. (2019).Impacts of an online macroinvertebrates observation and identification tool on volunteers’ accuracy and confidence in water quality biomonitoring training. Presentation at the Citizen Science Association Conference, Raleigh, NC. March 2019.
2018
Roberts, J., Crowley, K., & Louw, M. (2018) Creating a Visual Representation of Expert Strategies to Inform the Design of Digital Tools for Citizen Science. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. London, UK. [poster | PDF]
Roberts, J. and Lyons, L. (2018) Scoring Qualitative Informal Learning Dialogue: The SQuILD Method for Measuring Museum Learning Talk. Paper re-presented by invitation at the Alliance Best Paper Session, London Festival of Learning. London, UK.
Roberts, J., Banerjee, A., Hong, A., McGee, S., Horn, M., Matcuk, M. (2018) Digital Exhibit Labels in Museums: Promoting Visitor Engagement with Cultural Artifacts. In Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (p. 623). ACM. Best Paper Honorable Mention [PDF]
Jorion, N., Roberts, J., Bowers, A., Tissenbaum, M., Lyons, L., Kumar, V., Berland, M. (2018). Uncovering Patterns in Constructionist Collaborative Learning Activities via Cluster Analysis of Museum Exhibit Log Files. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Researchers Association.
2017
Roberts, J., and Lyons, L. (2017). The Value of Learning Talk: Applying a novel dialogue scoring method to inform interaction design in an open-ended, embodied museum exhibit. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 12(4), 343-376. DOI 10.1007/s11412-017-9262-x
Roberts, J. and Lyons, L. (2017) Scoring Qualitative Informal Learning Dialogue: The SQuILD Method for Measuring Museum Learning Talk. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Best Paper Award
Roberts, J. (2017). Understanding Learning Through, With, and About Data. Early Career Workshop at the International Conference of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Roberts, J., Hall, A., Goldman, S.R. (2017) Learning Sciences. In K. Peppler (Ed.), SAGE Encyclopedia of Out of School Learning.
McGee, S., Roberts, J., Banerjee, A., Foong, E., Matcuk, M., Horn, M. (2017). Designing Digital Rails to Foster Scientific Curiosity around Museum Collections. Annual meeting of the American Educational Researchers Association
Horn, M., Roberts, J., Banerjee, A., & McGee, S. (2017) Touch | Don’t Touch: Exploring the role of interactive displays in natural history museums to help visitors appreciate objects behind glass. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
2016
Roberts, J., Banerjee, A., Matcuk, M., McGee, S., Horn, M. (2016). Uniting Big and Little Data to Understand Visitor Behavior. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Visitor Studies Association, July 2016, Boston, MA. [poster]
Roberts, J. (2016). Connecting Visitors to Data: Exploring Tools for Mediating Learning Talk at an Interactive Museum Exhibit. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Illinois at Chicago. Chicago, Illinois.
2015
Roberts, J., Lyons, L., Cafaro, F., & Eydt, R. (2015). Harnessing motion-sensing technologies to engage visitors with digital data. In Proceedings of the 19th annual Museums and the Web conference. Available online: [html]
Roberts, J.. (2015). Exploring Effects of Full-body Control in Perspective-based Learning in an Interactive Museum Data Display. Doctoral Consortium at the Conference of Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interactions. Palo Alto, California. ACM.
Roberts, J.. (2015). Designing Exhibit Interactivity to Support Group Exploration of Digital Data. Graduate Student Consortium at Museums and the Web. Chicago, Illinois.
2014
Roberts, J., Lyons, L., Cafaro, F., & Eydt, R. (2014). Interpreting data from within: supporting human-data interaction in museum exhibits through perspective taking. In Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Interaction design and children (pp. 7-16). ACM.
Cafaro, F., Lyons, L., Kang, R., Radinsky, J., Roberts, J., & Vogt, K. (2014). Framed guessability: using embodied allegories to increase user agreement on gesture sets. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (pp. 197-204). ACM.
Cafaro, F., Lyons, L., Roberts, J., & Radinsky, J. (2014). The uncanny valley of embodied interaction design. In Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 1075-1078). ACM.
Lyons, L., and Roberts, J. (2014). Scaffolding the Collaborative Interpretation of Data in a Museum Exhibit. In Leilah Lyons (chair), Synergistic Scaffolding of Technologically-enhanced STEM Learning in Informal Institutions. Symposium conducted at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Boulder, CO.
2013
Cafaro, F., Panella, A., Lyons, L., Roberts, J., & Radinsky, J. (2013) I See You There! Developing Identity-Preserving Embodied Interaction for Museum Exhibits. Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 2013 ACM int’l conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA.
Roberts, J., Cafaro, C., Kang, R., Vogt, K., Lyons, L., & Radinsky, J. (2013). That’s Me and That’s You: Museum visitors’ perspective-taking around an embodied interaction data map display. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. Madison, WI, USA. 343-344. [poster]
Roberts, J., Lyons, L., Radinsky. J. (2013) Become One With the Data: Technological Support of Shared Exploration of Data in Informal Settings. In Anne Knowles (Chair), From Visualizing to Understanding Historical Change: Using GIS Tools on the Web, in Class, and in Museums. Paper session conducted at the meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, IL.
Roberts, J. (2013). Designing an Interactive Exhibit for Exploring Complex Data in Informal Learning Environments. Doctoral Consortium at the International Conference of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL Madison, Wisconsin.
2012 and earlier
Roberts, J., Lyons, L., Radinsky, J., Cafaro, F. (2012). Connecting Visitors to Exhibits through Design: Exploring United States census data with CoCensus. In Proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences. Sydney, Australia.
Roberts, J., Radinsky, J., Lyons, L., Cafaro, F. (2012) Co-Census: Designing an Interactive Museum Space to Prompt Negotiated Narratives of Ethnicity, Community, and Identity. In Josh Radinsky (Chair), Tools for Constructing Historical Narratives: Teaching African American and Latino Histories With GIS Census Maps. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
Radinsky, J., Melendez, J., Roberts, J. (2012) Do the Data Strike Back? Students’ Presentations of Historical Narratives about Latino Communities using GIS. In Josh Radinsky (Chair), Tools for Constructing Historical Narratives: Teaching African American and Latino Histories With GIS Census Maps. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
Lyons, L., Becker, D., & Roberts, J. A. (2010). Analyzing the affordances of mobile technologies for informal science learning. Museums & Social Issues, 5(1), 87-102.
Cafaro, F., Lyons, L., Radinsky, J., & Roberts, J.. (2010). RFID localization for tangible and embodied multi-user interaction with museum exhibits. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM international Conference Adjunct Papers on Ubiquitous Computing (Copenhagen, Denmark, September 26 – 29, 2010). Ubicomp ’10. ACM, New York, NY, 397-398.
Melendez, J., Roberts, J., & Radinsky, J. (2010). GIS census data browsers: Tools for constructing social and historical narratives. In A. Beveridge (Chair), New Directions in Historical GIS(1): Substantive Findings and Web-Based Resources. Paper session conducted at the meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, IL.
