Projects
What we are working on.
ElementaryAI
Bringing foundational AI literacy to elementary students by having them design conversational companions for their own story characters.
Active 2025–2028
Project DIALOGS
Conversational AI learning experiences for middle schoolers, built around AMBY — a development environment designed for young people.
Active 2021–
BotBuilder
A no-code environment where teachers and students design their own AI chatbots, with features that help learners spot and address hallucinations.
Linguistic Alignment in Collaborative Dialogue
Studying syntactic and lexical alignment in middle-school pair programming dialogue, and how it relates to partner satisfaction.
Rapport with a Social, Teachable Robot
Modelling how middle school students build interpersonal closeness with a teachable robot over repeated sessions.
Completed 2019–2020
StudyBuddy
A Slack chatbot helping first-year CS students build study habits, developed from interviews with peer tutors and student surveys.
Completed 2019–2021
Allo Alphabet
Modelling children's phonological awareness in an IVR and SMS literacy system deployed in rural Côte d'Ivoire.
PRIME
An adaptive learning environment supporting undergraduates learning computer science through block-based programming.