STAR :: Social and Technological Action Research Group

Current Researchers: Michael Yeganyan, David Schramm, Meg Cramer, Monica Tentori and Gillian Hayes
Past Collaborators: Sen Hirano, Gabriela Marcu, Mohamad Monibi, David Nguyen
Project: Visual schedules and choice boards are tools used in current best practices for helping children with autism and other special needs. These non-verbal kids need help communicating their choices, understanding time and activities, [...]

An excerpt from the article….
Although mobile technologies are nearly ubiquitous in the lives of teenagers in modern industrialized nations, they are rarely used in schools—places where these youth spend a significant percentage of their time. Today’s teenagers, 75% of whom own cell phones, are considered by many to be responsible for the rampant uptake of [...]

Working with Girls Incorporated of Orange County, Microsoft Research, NCWIT, and Google, we have been able to conduct a series of classes on hands-on hacking.

Gillian posted a new blog entry on our summer camp from last year targeting teaching girls about computing and engineering through the use of PicoCrickets and the chance to “play engineer” through hands-on arts and crafts style computing activities.
http://ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&editorial_id=524
It’s also a good time to let everyone know that the women from WICS (Women in Information [...]

Reaching Diverse Student Populations in Embedded Ubiquitous Educational Environments
Organized by Meg Cramer, Moderated by Gillian Hayes
Panelists: Tom Moher, UI Chicago; Walt Scacchi, UC Irvine; Roy Pea, Stanford; a representative from High Tech High School
The physical built environment in educational settings has profound implications for learning. Yet, many technologies for learning are simply re-appropriated computers built for business or [...]

The Eureka! Summer Program with Girls Inc. is an intensive enrichment program for 7th, 8th or 9th grade girls.

Informatics assistant professor designs computer devices to aid instruction, record-keeping

“Reconsidering Education and Learning in HCI: A Social Cultural View of Special Education and Technology” by Gillian R. Hayes will be presented at HCI in February 2008.