Georgene Troseth
Professor Emerita, Department of Psychology & Human Development
Professor Troseth’s research focuses on young children’s symbolic development, including their understanding of representational artifacts and media (e.g., pictures, video images, touchscreens, scale models) and of the intent to symbolize. Current research involves designing an intelligent avatar in an eBook (using Artificial Intelligence) to support parents’ use of “dialogic questioning” while reading picture books with their children. In the general area of knowledge representation, Troseth is specifically interested in children’s representations of the mental states – intentions, beliefs, desires, and knowledge – of other people.