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Leveraging GenAI in CS Education
Jun. 11, 2024—In the age of GenAI and with code generation tools, CS pedagogy is facing new challenges and opportunities. This series of projects aims to investigate the impact of GenAI on students’ learning performance in CS education and develop new pedagogical approaches with GenAI to enhance CS education. Core Publications Huang, Y., Zheng, X., Wang, H.,...
EyeTrans: Understanding and Leveraging Human Cognition to Empower AI models for Programming
Jun. 11, 2024—This project uses multi-modalities including eye tracking and medical imaging to model human cognitive processes in programming activities, and then leverage human cognition to develop automated models and tools to assist automated programming tasks. This series of projects aims to investigate the fundamental cognitive processes in programming and empower the modeling and design of more...
Critical Computing
Jun. 11, 2024—Although elementary school-aged children use and have interest in technologies with integrated Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, they rarely critically investigate the sociopolitical contexts in which people consume and produce AI technology. Without engaging in this form of critical computing, elementary school students will not be prepared to participate ethically in a digitally reliant society and...
Participatory Quantitative Ethnography
Jun. 11, 2024—Participatory quantitative ethnography has emerged as QE scholars have recognized the need to support equitable researcher-participant relations in the co-construction of knowledge. Calls for imagining and designing possibilities for such collaboration agree on the potential of already existing tools, such as Epistemic Network Analysis (ENA), within QE. Traditionally, ENA has been used by researchers as...