Museums have been a domain of study and design intervention for Human-Computer
Interaction (HCI) for several decades. However, while resources providing overviews on the …

Designing for and facilitating intergenerational group learning is an important objective of
informal science institutions as most visitors in those settings engage with scientific thinking …

AMOEBA is a unique tool to support teachers' orchestration of collaboration among novice
programmers in a non-traditional programming environment. The AMOEBA tool was …

Designers who create computer-based learning experiences for places like museums, out-of-
school programs, and homes face a number of challenges related to the informal nature of …

There is a growing understanding of the unique ways that tabletops support effective
collaboration; however, this research mostly focuses on environments in which learners …

While open-ended and tinkering-based learning environments offer considerable support for
developing STEM-based reasoning and collaboration skills, understanding how and when …

Understanding electrical circuits can be difficult for novices of all ages. In this paper, we
describe a science museum exhibit that enables visitors to make circuits on an interactive …

We present SynFlo, a tangible museum exhibit for exploring bio-design. SynFlo utilizes
active and concrete tangible tokens to allow visitors to experience a playful biodesign …

Existing novice-friendly machine learning (ML) modeling tools center around a solo user
experience, where a single user collects only their own data to build a model. However, solo …

Data logged within technology-based learning environments have the potential to support
instructors' orchestration of learner activities. Whereas many learning environments now …