Veronica Grosso shared her work on reducing gender bias in human-robot interaction in a poster session at the Computing Research Association's Graduate Cohort Workshop. Her poster shows alternate ways of evoking robot competence without gendered roles.

Our work to build an afterschool program for women in computing with multi-level mentoring, a social robotics curriculum and a computational thinking scaffolding tool was awarded a 3-year, $500,000 grant (NSF #2342099) from the NSF ITEST program.

Congrats to Paul Hatch and Joe Michaelis on their newly accepted paper for the CSCL track at ISLS2024 titled "Collaborative Learning in Immersive Virtual Reality: A Systematic Literature Review." The work was done with funding from the NSF GRFP.

Our HRI 2024 Demo paper, "PATHWiSE: An AI-Assisted Teacher Authoring Tool for Creating Custom Robot-Assisted Learning Activities" was accepted. Congrats to authors Anis Rahman, Isaac Felix, Usman Shahid, and Joe Michaelis!

Congrats to Mirko Mantovani, Andrew Wentzel, Juan Trelles, Joe Michaelis, and Liz Marai on their paper "Kiviat Defense: An Empirical Evaluation of Visual Encoding Effectiveness in Multivariate Data Similarity Detection" In the Journal of Imaging Science and Technology.

UIC LIT Lab was award $435,000 as part of a 3-year, $1.2M NSF Grant in collaboration with University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Chicago for the project Designing Social Companion Robots for Long-term Interaction.

An amazing team of UIC Engineering and Learning Sciences faculty were awarded a new 3-year, $600,000 grant (NSF #2302171) for a Research Experiences for Teachers project on Computational Modeling and Simulation for STEM Education.

Congrats to Veronica Grosso on her 1st first-author paper, "The impact of robot co-location on student learning experiences when reasoning about geometry," with Joe Michaelis. The paper will be presented at ROMAN in Busan, Korea.

Our paper on "PATHWiSE: An Authoring Tool to Support Teachers to Create Robot-Supported Social Learning Experiences During Homework," was accepted to the 2023 Computer Supported Collaborative Work Conference. Congrats to Paul Hatch, Anis Rahman, and Joe Michaelis!