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Award

Travel fellowship from the Linda Hall Library for the project "Curricular Connections: Mapping, Transposing, and Teaching Research Methods in Geology, Geography, and Environmental Science." This fellowship will pay for Caro to travel to the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, MO in order to utilize specialized materials in support of ongoing work in her liaison areas.

Heather Pon-Barry

Grant

Heather Pon-Barry (Computer Science) received a National Science Foundation grant for her project 'CAREER: Dialogue Engagement for Educational Robots.' The project is for five years. (2020)

National Science Foundation

Audrey St. John, Heather Pon-Barry and Becky Wai-Ling Packard received a Microsoft Corporation grant for the project "Development of Core Modules as Curricular Assets for Tech Mentorship Initiative." The project is for 2.5 months. Combined award to Audrey St. John (Computer Science), Heather Pon-Barry (Computer Science) and Becky Packard (Psychology and Education).

Publication

Pon-Barry, H., St. John, A., Packard, B. W., &  Stephenson, C. (2017). Addressing the CS capacity challenge by improving undergraduate peer mentoring. ACM Inroads, 8(3), 43–47.

Pon-Barry, H., Packard, B. W., & St. John, A. (2017). Expanding capacity and promoting inclusion in introductory computer science: A focus on near-peer mentor preparation and code review. Computer Science Education, 27(1), 54–77.

Chaffey, T., Kim, H., Nobrega, E., Lubold, N., & Pon-Barry, H. (2018). Dyadic Stance in Natural Language Communication with a Teachable Robot. In HRI '18 Companion: 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 85–86.

Lubold, N., Walker, E., Pon-Barry, H., & Ogan, A. (2018). Automated Pitch Convergence Improves Learning in a Social, Teachable Robot for Middle School Mathematics. In Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED).

Lubold, N., Walker, E., & Pon-Barry, H. (2021). Effects of Adapting to User Pitch on Rapport Perception, Behavior, and State with a Social Robotic Learning Companion. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 31: 35-73.

Das, R. & Pon-Barry, H. (2018). Turn-taking strategies for human-robot peer-learning dialogue. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), pp. 119-129, Melbourne, Australia, July 2018.

Lubold, N., Walker, E., Pon-Barry, H., & Ogan, A. (2019). Comfort with Robots Influences Rapport with a Social, Entraining Teachable Robot. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education.