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Jennifer Cross
Research Assistant Professor
Contact Info:
200 Boston Avenue Suite G810
Medford, MA 02155
Phone: 617-627-5888
Fax: 617-627-4760
Email
Biography:
Dr. Jennifer Cross is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Tufts
University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach where her
primary research interests include human-robot interaction with a
focus on the educational applications of robotics and diversity in
engineering education. She completed her graduate degrees within
the
Community Robotics, Education, and Technology Empowerment Lab
at Carnegie Mellon University where she worked to develop the
Arts & Bots Program, a creativity-oriented,
middle school robotics program using the Hummingbird Robotics Kit.
Dr. Cross was a fellow of both the Institute of Education Sciences
supported Program for Interdisciplinary Education Research and the
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
Education:
Ph.D. in Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2017
M.S. in Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2013
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, F. W. Olin College of Engineering, 2010
Publications:
- Hsu, Y.-C., Cross, J., Dille, P., Nourbakhsh, I., Leiter, L., and Grode, R. (2018).
Visualization Tool for Environmental Sensing and Public Health Data. In
Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference Companion Publication on
Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '18 Companion), Hong Kong.
- Hsu, Y.-C., Cross, J., Leiter, L., Grode, R., Dille, P.,
and Nourbakhsh, I. (2018).
Community-Empowered Air Quality Monitoring System.
In Proceedings of 2018 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems, Montréal, Canada.
- Cross, J. (2017).
Creative Robotic Systems for Talent-Based Learning
(Doctoral Dissertation). Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
- Cross, J., Hamner, E.,
Zito, L., and Nourbakhsh, I. (2017).
Student Outcomes from the Evaluation of a
Transdisciplinary Middle School Robotics Program. In Proceedings
of 2017 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Indianapolis, Indiana.
- Hamner, E., Zito, L., Cross, J., Tasota, M., Dille, P.,
Fulton, S., Johnson, M., Nourbakhsh, I., and Schapiro, J. (2017).
Development and Results from User Testing of a Novel
Robotics Kit Supporting Systems Engineering for Elementary-Aged Students.
In Proceedings of 2017 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE),
Indianapolis, Indiana.
- Hsu, Y.-C., Dille, P., Cross, J., Dias, B., Sargent, R.,
and Nourbakhsh, I. (2017).
Community-Empowered Air Quality Monitoring System.
In Proceedings of 2017ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems, Denver, Colorado.
- Cross, J., Hamner, E.,
Zito, L., Nourbakhsh, I., and Bernstein, D. (2016).
Development of an Assessment for Measuring Middle
School Student Attitudes towards Robotics Activities. In
Proceedings of 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Erie,
Pennsylvania.
- Cross, J., Hamner, E.,
Zito, L., and Nourbakhsh, I. (2016).
Engineering and Computational Thinking Talent in
Middle School Students: a Framework for Defining and Recognizing Student
Affinities. In Proceedings of 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education
Conference (FIE), Erie, Pennsylvania.
- Hamner, E., Zito, L., Cross, J., Slezak, B., Mellon, S.,
Harapko, H., and Welter, M. (2016).
Utilizing Engineering to Teach Non-Technical
Disciplines: Case Studies of Robotics within Middle School English and Health
Classes. In Proceedings of 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education
Conference (FIE), Erie, Pennsylvania.
- Hamner, E., Cross, J., Zito, L., Bernstein, D., and Mutch-Jones,
K. (2016).
Training Teachers to Integrate Engineering into Non-
Technical Middle School Curriculum. In Proceedings of 2016 IEEE
Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Erie, Pennsylvania.
- Bernstein, D., Mutch-Jones, K., Hamner, E., and Cross, J.
(2015).
Robots and Romeo and Juliet: Studying Teacher
Integration of Robotics into Middle School Curricula. Paper presented
at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association
(AERA), Washington, DC.
- Cross, J., Hamner, E.,
Bartley, C., and Nourbakhsh, I. (2015).
Arts & Bots: Application and Outcomes of a Secondary
School Robotics Program. In Proceedings of 2015 IEEE Frontiers in
Education Conference (FIE), El Paso, Texas.
- Cross, J. and Hamner, E.
(2014).
Identifying and Cultivating Diverse STEM Talent
through Creative Robotics. In Proceedings of 2014 American Society
for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition,
Indianapolis, Indiana.
- Cross, J., Bartley, C.,
Hamner, E., and Nourbakhsh, I. (2013).
A Visual Robot-Programming Environment for
Multidisciplinary Education. In Proceedings of 2013 IEEE
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe,
Germany.
- Hamner, E. and Cross, J. (2013).
Arts & Bots: Techniques for distributing a STEAM
robotics program through K-12 classrooms. In Proceedings of the
2013 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC), Princeton, NJ.
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