Joe Michaelis

Asst. prof at UIC. Investigating STEM interest and its development from a Learning Sciences and HCI perspective. Now with more robots!

[Joe Michaelis @STEMinterest]

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 https://t.co/bujgcnOYRP. Funded by NSF GRFP.

[Joe Michaelis @STEMinterest]

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. https://t.co/bgWglSpH23

[The HRI Conference @HRI_Conference]

We will now transition to the last morning session before lunch 2.B Autonomy and Helping Hands opened by Stephanie Kim who presents a taxonomy of robot autonomy for HRI 🤖 #HRI2024

[@tomwilliams.phd on bsky @williamstome]

Our next paper, from @leighlevinson drills down within the family context to look specifically at teens! Really interesting example of highly contextualized norm violation response, and the data privacy issues therein. #hri2024

[QueerInRobotics @QueerInRobotics]

Day 1 of #HRI2024 underway! Now in the ethics and society session, @williamstome presenting on transgender and non-binary perspectives on HRI highlighted our QiR initiative! We have our social tonight! Talk to @marucabrera27 or @ndennler if you're interested in knowing more

[@tomwilliams.phd on bsky @williamstome]

Will you be in Boulder for @HRI_Conference #HRI2024? After the conference closes on Thursday, head over to Vision Quest Brewing for a special robot comedy night!

[Nikita Soni, Ph.D @NikitaSoni23]

I am recruiting a Ph.D. student in HCI/CSCW to join @UICCS for Fall 2024! If you’re interested in designing & developing educational and creativity technologies for children and families, consider applying! Info: https://t.co/rHaeuJa6J5. Please share! #CSCW #HCI #CHI2024

[Joe Michaelis @STEMinterest]

This was a brilliant time and you all did a fantastic job organizing.

[Bengisu Çağıltay @bengisucagiltay]

🌟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!

[Joe Michaelis @STEMinterest]

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)

[Chemistry at UIC @ChemistryatUIC]

Join us on 10/30 to learn more about our Chemistry PhD Graduate Program. Register to attend.

[Institute for Advancing Computing Education @CSEdResearch]

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.

[ACM CHI Conference @acm_chi]

A huge congratulations to all who submitted full papers for #CHI2024. We had 4046 complete submissions, which amounts to 27% growth over 2023 🥳 If you haven't already, and especially if you are an author, please sign up to review in PCS

[Joe Michaelis @STEMinterest]

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! https://t.co/OvONQc25FK

[Joe Michaelis @STEMinterest]

@AERASIG_LS_ATL emails are manually done. Just sent you the directions. Now let's hope for some diligent reviewers.

[Joe Michaelis @STEMinterest]

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?

[LSGSC @lsgs_conference]

Check out our website!

We just added FAQs about registration, the location, and more.

Plus, see lots of other information about past conferences!

https://t.co/nXoLGww2w5

[Joe Michaelis @STEMinterest]

fantastic, well-written, and deep look into what many in the field likely take for granted.

[John Rudolph @JLRudolph]

Hot off the press. The real story of where "scientific literacy" came from (and it's open access for everyone)!
https://t.co/YQOUR7L48s

[DREAM Lab @DREAMLab8]

Wanna be a designer with engineering expertise? We have multiple PhD openings in our lab, feel free to contact Dr. Huang: [email protected], more detailes are in the below figure.

[Joe Michaelis @STEMinterest]

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.

[Joe Michaelis @STEMinterest]

So, what do librarians do when the convene? Books. many many many books. and book signings. and books

[Joe Michaelis @STEMinterest]

The librarians have invited me into their midst for a talk on Robots, Literacies, and Libraries: Center for the Future of Libraries Tech Talk https://t.co/wbl0t1bXdT. Should be wild. I'll report back.

[Joe Michaelis @STEMinterest]

Here. We. Go. Hope my sidekick @MistyRobotics lands their jokes.