Joe Michaelis
@STEMinterest
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Asst. prof at UIC. Investigating STEM interest and its development from a Learning Sciences and HCI perspective. Now with more robots!
Madison, WI and Chicago, IL
Joined September 2015
Traveling to #ISLS2024? @paulhatch1 will be presenting his Framework for Collaborative Learning in Immersive VR on Friday, 9am, Jacobs 2213 B. More info coming soon at the Learning + Interest + Technology web site Funded by NSF GRFP.
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Demo at #HRI2024 was fun showing off the PATHWiSE teacher authoring tool to allow teachers to create their own robot-assisted lessons. GPT enhanced features to auto-suggest robot comments based on selected text and to auto-select a robot behavior.
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RT @HRI_Conference: We will now transition to the last morning session before lunch 2.B Autonomy and Helping Hands opened by Stephanie Kim….
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RT @williamstome: Our next paper, from @leighlevinson drills down within the family context to look specifically at teens! Really interesti….
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RT @QueerInRobotics: Day 1 of #HRI2024 underway! Now in the ethics and society session, @williamstome presenting on transgender and non-bin….
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RT @williamstome: Will you be in Boulder for @HRI_Conference #HRI2024? After the conference closes on Thursday, head over to Vision Quest….
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RT @NikitaSoni23: I am recruiting a Ph.D. student in HCI/CSCW to join @UICCS for Fall 2024! If you’re interested in designing & developing….
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Thank you for your interest in working with me. I’m actively recruiting students who are excited about working on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research problems about designing natural user int…
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This was a brilliant time and you all did a fantastic job organizing.
🌟First Annual Midwest #HRI Meetup - Friday Oct, 20th 2023🤖. Lots of conversations and laughter with fellow students and PI's at our first Midwest HRI meetup! We chatted about ongoing research efforts across our three labs, caught up with old friends, and made new connections!
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Interested (or know someone who is) in pursing a PhD in the raddest of education related fields. Here's your open invite to the cool kids table. Reach out with questions - even if that Q is "what is a learning sciences?" (I didn't really know when I started applying)
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RT @ChemistryatUIC: Join us on 10/30 to learn more about our Chemistry PhD Graduate Program. Register to attend.
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Join us for an engaging #CSEd Discussion Group this week!. We will be discussing "Interest Development Theory in Computing Education: A Framework and Toolkit for Researchers and Designers" by @STEMinterest and David Weintrop.
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Anyone with kids aged 8-12 in the Oak Park/Forest Park, IL area interested in reading with Misty our Reading Companion Robot, can visit us on Tuesdays at the Forest Park Public Library. Sign up, share widely and I'll see you there!
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@AERASIG_LS_ATL emails are manually done. Just sent you the directions. Now let's hope for some diligent reviewers.
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Whew! Just completed reviewer assignments for @AERASIG_LS_ATL. Holy cow was that complicated. Anyone want to do an HCI-style user study on navigating that system?
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RT @lsgs_conference: Check out our website! . We just added FAQs about registration, the location, and more. Plus, see lots of other infor….
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fantastic, well-written, and deep look into what many in the field likely take for granted.
Hot off the press. The real story of where "scientific literacy" came from (and it's open access for everyone)!.
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RT @DREAMLab8: Wanna be a designer with engineering expertise? We have multiple PhD openings in our lab, feel free to contact Dr. Huang: ji….
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Had some real-life Hawthorne effect this weekend. Turns out once a researcher straps a mic to me, I'm a way better parent at a children's museum.
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So, what do librarians do when the convene? Books. many many many books. and book signings. and books
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