Spring 2025
| Date | Title | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 15 | AI for Next Generation Science Education | Xiaoming Zhai |
| Jan 22 | LIVE Spark Grant Advances in Literacy, Music, and Care | Spark Grant Recipients |
| Jan 29 | Spark! LIVE Gaze: An Interactive Display Combining the Art and Science of Eye Tracking | Albert Na and Dan Levin |
| Feb 5 | How Do We Read and Understand Code? | Zachary Karas |
| Feb 12 | Advancing Psychometrics with Network Science and Artificial Intelligence | Alexander Christensen |
| Feb 19 | Postponed Until March 19 - Malicious Machines: The Intersection of Phishing and LLMs | Carlos Olea and Maxwell Lieb |
| Feb 26 | Spark! ChatEDU: Designing AI Tools Students Actually Use | Vasco Singh |
| March 5 | AI Days | No Session, join us for AI Days 2025 |
| March 12 | Spring Break | No Session |
| March 19 | Malicious Machines: The Intersection of Phishing and LLMs | Carlos Olea and Maxwell Lieb |
| March 26 | Empowering Innovation with Human-Like AI Models That Leverage Developer Behaviors | Yu Huang |
| April 2 | The Roberts Academy and Dyslexia Center: Current Services, Future Visions, and Potential Roles for Learning Technologies | Joseph Wehby |
| April 9 | Spark! LIVE & Wond’ry Ideator Program Pitch Showcase | Ideator Program Participants |
| April 16 | Student-AI Collaborations for the 21st Century Classroom | Sidney D'Mello, University of Colorado Boulder |
Fall 2024
| Date | Title | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 28 | Innovation in Action: LIVE's Impact and Future Vision | Alyssa Wise |
| Sept 4 | Designing Tools for Children to Question and Reimagine Computing | Golnaz Arastoopour Irgens |
| Sept 11 | Fairness Reconsidered: A Reparative Lens on Algorithmic Justice | Jenny Davis |
| Sept 18 | Spark! LIVE Learning Innovation Demos | LIVE Community |
| Sept 25 | AI Adoption in the Workplace and the Future of Work | Xi Kang |
| Oct 2 | Spark! Research Brainstorm Session | LIVE Community |
| Oct 9 | Fall Break | No Session |
| Oct 16 | Multimodal Composing with AI | Melanie Hundley, Blaine Smith |
| Oct 23 | Spark! Exploring Current and Future Research Partnerships with MNPS | Erin Henrick |
| Oct 30 | Learning Socially With and About Playful Creative Computing | Vishesh Kumar |
| Nov 6 | Spark! Session Coming Soon | LIVE Community |
| Nov 13 | Investigating the Impact of Metacognitive Supports in a Mathematics Digital Learning Platform | Kelley Durkin, Cristina Zepeda |
| Nov 20 | Math Misconceptions Data Science Competition | Scott Crossley, Bethany Rittle-Johnson, Kelley Durkin, Rebecca Adler |
| Nov 27 | Thanksgiving Break | No Session |
| Dec 4 | Spark! Bridging the Gap Between Physical and Virtual Reality with Multisensory Experiments | Mark Wallace, David Tovar, Marcus Watson |
Spring 2024
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| January 24 | Serkan Ozel (Bogazici University) | Unlocking Digital Potential: The Impact of Algo Digital Coding Game on Young Minds |
| January 31 | Community Session | Spark! Accelerating Learning Tech Innovation at Vanderbilt |
| February 7 | Sarah Burriss (Teaching and Learning) | Rights-Based Approaches to AI Ethics in Education: Co-Designing an AI Bill of Rights For and With Students and Educator |
| February 14 | Eduardo Davalos (Computer Science) | Spark! Tobii Pro 3 Eye Tracking Glasses Demo and Uses |
| February 21 | Caitlin Snyder (Computer Science) | Understanding Students’ Collaborative Problem Solving during STEM+C Learning Using Multimodal Analysis |
| February 28 | No Session | Please look out for information on 4 public talks LIVE is hosting this week |
| March 6 | Community Session | Spark! LIVE Grant Collaboration Session |
| March 13 | Spring Break | |
| March 20 | Albert Na (LIVE) | Spark! What can LIVE’s research Engineer do for you? |
| March 27 | Mario Avila (Director, Turner Family Center for Social Ventures) | Spark! Social Entrepreneurship for Learners |
| April 3 | Zainab Agha (Computer Science) | Spark! How to Utilize Human-Centered Design in Your Research |
| April 10 | Goodwin Lab (Teaching & Learning) | Reading Today: Multimodal Processing of Reading Behaviors for Digital and Paper Reading |
| April 17 | Abigale Plunk (Electrical and Computer Engineering) | Decision-Making in Simulated Driving Experiences |
Fall 2023
August 30 – Admin Meeting
September 6 – First LIVE lunch – Introducing Alyssa Wise!
September 13 – Scott Crossley, Langdon Holmes, Joon Suh Choi, & Wesley Morris (Special Education). National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Automated Scoring Challenge for NAEP Mathematics items: The grand prize solution.
September 20 – Chris Vanags (Director, Peabody Research Office) The Vanderbilt Smart Meadow: an Intelligent Ecosystems Approach to Soiling your Undies (and combating climate change).
September 27 – Will Hedgecock (Institute for Software Integrated Systems). Code to Joy: A music themed framework for teaching CS
October 4 – Rogers Hall and Caleb Vatral (Teaching and Learning, and Computer Science). Vanderbilt Interaction Analysis Lab (VIAL)
October 11 – Hugo Hammond (Postdoc, Psychology and Human Development). Audiences of the future: using physiological and behavioural measures to investigate immersion in film and television
October 18 – No LIVE Talk this week (Interdisciplinary Faculty Mtg)
October 25 – Meiyi Ma (Computer Science) Towards Explainable & Trustworthy AI for Healthcare and Smart Cities
November 1 – Jim Goodell (Quality Information Partners) Learning Engineering: A Process and Practice to Support Learners and their Development
November 8 – Meagan Postema (LIVE) The Belmont Forum: Utilizing Transdisciplinary Research to Systemically Address Sustainability Challenges
November 15 – No LIVE Talk this week (Interdisciplinary Faculty Mtg)
November 22 – Thanksgiving Break
November 29 – Patrick Voorhies (Chevron) Preparing for the Future of Work and Energy: Chevron’s Approach to Developing Digital Skills
December 6 – Hannah Ziegler (Teaching and Learning) Teens (Re)storying the Creek with STEM (T-ReCS): Place-based Education and Digital Storytelling with AR
Spring 2023
To view the recordings of the Spring 2023 presentations, click here
January 11 – Katherine McEldoon (Pearson Learning). “Pearson’s Learning Design Principles: Scaling the Science of Learning at a Global Ed Tech Company.”
January 18 – Eduardo Davalos (Computer Science). “Identifying Gaze Behavior Evolution via Temporal Fully-Weighted Scanpath Graphs”
January 25 – Bobby Bodenheimer (Computer Science).“Perception and Action in Immersive Virtual Spaces: How Well Are We Building Virtual Worlds?”
February 1 – cancelled d/t weather
February 8 – Madison Lee (Psychology and Human Development). “An interdisciplinary analysis of nurse training in mixed-reality simulation environments.”
February 15 –Nilanjan Sarkar (Computer Science). “A Simulator for Individualized and Adaptive Driving in Virtual Reality and its Applications in Autism Intervention”
February 22 – Gautam Biswas (Computer Science). “C2STEM: A Collaborative Computational STEM learning Environment that promotes synergistic learning of science and computational thinking (CT).”
March 1 – Clayton Cohn (Computer Science). “A Deep Learning Approach to Classifying Students’ Domain-Specific Utterances During Collaborative Problem-Solving”
March 8 – Ashwaq Alsoubai (Computer Science). “A Human-Centered Approach to Improving Adolescent Real-Time Online Risk Detection Algorithms“; Naima Samreen Ali & Sarvech Qadir, “Accessibility Quest VR Demo”
March 15 – No lunch (Spring Break)
March 22 –Nilanjan Sarkar (Computer Science). “Design of a collaborative virtual environment for dyadic interaction to facilitate teamwork and collaboration
March 29 – Noel Enyedy (Teaching and Learning). “Minds in Motion: New Ways of Embodied, Technology Mediated Learning and a Demonstration of the Generalized Embodied Modeling Learning Environment”
April 5 – Langdon Holmes and Wesley Morris (Psychology and Human Development). “Digital Textbooks – Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Develop Responsive Readers.” Project Page
April 12 – Peter Rousos (Vanderbilt Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization). “From Lab to Market: Commercializing Vanderbilt’s Intellectual Property”
April 19 – Laurie Cutting and Amanda Martinez-Lincoln (Special Education). “Examination of brain stimulation to facilitate foreign language learning.”
April 26 – Caroline Christopher (Teaching and Learning). Development and Testing of a Mobile Web-Based Coaching Tool to Improve Pre-K Classroom Practices to Enhance Learning.
Fall 2022
August 31 – Dan Levin (Psychology and Human Development). “Introduction to LIVE and the talk series.”
- What is LIVE? LIVE is an interdisciplinary center for learning technology that focuses on research and applications to technology in support of consequential learning. We support research and the development of ideas for application of learning technology with corporate and community partners. A big part of the LIVE mission is to create a community of researchers and students here at Vanderbilt. In the first session of the LIVE brownbag series, we will discuss LIVE, let you know about ways that LIVE can help your research and partnership efforts, and give you a chance to start getting to know others in the LIVE community.
September 7 – Akos Ledeczi (Computer Science): Interactive Demo #1. “Technology to teach programming: Using NetsBlox to teach students amazing technical skills and to be masters of on-line data.”
September 14 – Akos Ledeczi (Computer Science): Interactive Demo #2. “Using the NetsBlox robot controller.”
September 21 – No lunch
September 28 – Gautam Biswas (Computer Science). “SPICE – Science Projects Integrating Computing and Engineering, an NSF-funded STEM+C Design and Development project that develops NGSS aligned curricular materials integrating computational modeling with science and engineering for students in grades 5 and 6.”
October 5 – Michelle Perdomo (Psychology and Human Development). “Assessing the Influence of the Internet: Does Digital Text Exposure Affect Language Processing?”
October 12 – No lunch (Fall Break)
October 19 – Ilana Horn (Teaching and Learning). “How does accounting for classroom space help us think differently about teaching and teacher learning?”
October 26 – Ole Molvig (History, CSET, CMA). “Education in the Metaverse? An overview of VR, AR, and spatial technologies.”
November 2 – Rogers Hall (Teaching and Learning). “Interaction Analysis for Learning Science. Interaction analysis is a method used to explore the organization of learning and teaching in video and audio recordings of human activity.”
- In this introduction, we will review the history of the field, identify phenomena that are amenable to this method, and explore several use cases. This session also serves as an invitation to participate in the VU/LIVE Interaction Analysis Lab, an open group run by students and faculty, which will be meeting each week during this academic year. Members of the LIVE community are welcome to participate and to bring materials for analysis. Related material: Learning How to Look and Listen.
November 9 – Yu Huang (Computer Science). “Objectively Measure Students’ Cognitive Activities in Programming: Code, Biases, and Brains.”
- Understanding how developers carry out programming activities can help to improve software engineering productivity and guide the use and development of supporting tools, strategies, and environment for CS pedagogy. We will discuss how we can use medical imaging and eye tracking to objectively explore CS students’ computing activities.
November 16 – Sarah Burriss (Teaching and Learning). “AI, Ethics, and Science Fiction: Fostering Ethical Discussions Around Fiction and Film Featuring Advanced Technology.”
November 30 – Cristina Zepeda (Psychology and Human Development). “Identifying students’ study strategies and ways to support effective strategies via supervised machine learning for text analysis.”
December 7 – No lunch