Learning Publications

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Academic Papers

2020

  • Sneha Priscilla Makini, Ini Oguntola, and Deb Roy. Spelling their pictures: the role of visual scaffolds in an authoring app for young children’s literacy and creativity. Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC). 2020. pdf Learning Social Networks Storytelling

2019

  • Anneli Hershman*, Juliana Nazare*, Marianna Walker*, Heather Pierce, James Gray, Ivan Sysoev, Martin Saveski, Sneha Makini, Eric Chu, Marc Exposito, and Deb Roy. (2019). Extending the SLP into the Home: Examining Coach-Supported Parent-Child Engagement With an Early Literacy App. Peer-reviewed talk presented at the November 2019 ASHA Convention. *Equal contribution. Learning

2018

  • Anneli Hershman*, Juliana Nazare*, Ivan Sysoev, Lauren Fratamico, Juanita Buitrago, Mina Soltangheis, Sneha Makini, Eric Chu, and Deb Roy. (2018). Family Learning Coach: Engaging Families in Children’s Early Literacy Learning with Computer-Supported Tools. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computers in Education. Philippines, pp. 637-646. *Equal Contribution. pdf Learning Social Networks
  • Nazmus Saquib, Deb Roy. (2018). Children-Centered Sensing in Early Childhood Classrooms. In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ‘18). New York, NY, USA, Paper LBW055, 6 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3188559. Learning Robotics
  • Juliana Nazare*, Anneli Hershman*, Ivan Sysoev, Lauren Fratamico, Juanita Buitrago, Mina Soltangheis, Sneha Makini, Eric Chu, and Deb Roy. (2018). Child-Coach-Parent Network for Early Literacy Learning. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference of Learning Sciences. London, United Kingdom, pp. 1409-1410. *Equal Contribution. pdf Learning Social Networks
  • Anneli Hershman*, Juliana Nazare*, Jie Qi*, Deb Roy, and Mitchel Resnick. (2018). Light It Up: Using Paper Circuitry to Enhance Low-Fidelity Paper Prototypes for Children. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children. ACM, Trondheim, Norway, pp. 365-372. *Equal Contribution. pdf Learning

2017

  • Juliana Nazare*, Anneli Hershman*, Ivan Sysoev, and Deb Roy. (2017). Bilingual SpeechBlocks: Investigating How Bilingual Children Tinker with Words in English and Spanish. In Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY ‘17). ACM, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 183-193. *Equal Contribution. pdf Learning
  • Ivan Sysoev, Anneli Hershman, Susan Fine, Claire Traweek, and Deb Roy. (2017). SpeechBlocks: A Constructionist Early Literacy App. Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 10 pages. Learning
  • Anneli Hershman. (2017). They’re having fun… but are they learning? Blogpost for Media Lab Learning Initiative, cross-published on Medium. https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/they-re-having-fun-but-are-they-learning/ Learning

2016

  • Ivan Sysoev, Anneli Hershman, Susan Fine, Deb Roy, Mina Soltangheis, and Brianne Fitzpatrick. (2016). Exploring SpeechBlocks: Piloting a Constructionist Literacy App with Preschool Children. Presented at the 2016 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Conference. Philadelphia, PA. pdf Learning
  • Anneli Hershman, Ivan Sysoev, and Deb Roy. (2016). SpeechBlocks: Using Literacy Apps as Building Blocks to Analyze Play. Presented at the Conference for Digital Media and Learning (DML). Irvine, CA. pdf Learning

Theses

Ph.D.

  • Anneli Rane Woolf. (2020). Discovering the Meaning Behond the Story: Creating a System for Documenting and SUpporting Children’s Narrative Development. Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. learning storytelling
  • Ivan Sysoev. (2020). Digital Expressive Media for Supporting Early Literacy through Child-Driven, Scaffolded Play. Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. pdf agency artificial intelligence constructionism creativity early literacy learning phonics phonological awareness playful learning scaffolding self-expression

M.Sc / M.Eng.

  • Sneha Priscilla Makini. (2018). PictureBlocks: Constructing and Deconstructing Picture-Driven Literacy Development. M.Sc. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. pdf Early Childhood Literacy Learning Natural Language Processing Self-Expression Social Networks