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As a learning scientist working primarily in informal education, I investigate how interactive technologies mediate social, free-choice learning experiences. I am an associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech where I lead the Technology Integrated Learning Environments (TILES) lab. Our projects in human-computer interaction (HCI) and human-centered computing (HCC) design technologies to support learning across contexts, with an emphasis on how people learn through, with, and about data.
I teach courses in educational technologies, research design, and human-computer interaction. My students examine how people learn and how to design effective learning environments for schools, museums, citizen science, and workplace learning.
Cafaro, F., & Roberts, J. (2026). Data through Movement: Designing Embodied Human-Data Interaction for Informal Learning. Springer Nature.
Roberts, J., Lyons, L., Cafaro, F., & Eydt, R. (2014, June). Interpreting data from within: supporting humandata interaction in museum exhibits through perspective taking. In Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Interaction design and children (pp. 7-16).
Roberts, J., Banerjee, A., Hong, A., McGee, S., Horn, M., & Matcuk, M. (2018, April). Digital exhibit labels in museums: promoting visitor engagement with cultural artifacts. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-12).
Roberts, J., & Lyons, L. (2017). The value of learning talk: applying a novel dialogue scoring method to inform interaction design in an open-ended, embodied museum exhibit. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 12(4), 343-376.
Belghith, Y., Mahdavi Goloujeh, A., Magerko, B., Long, D., Mcklin, T., & Roberts, J. (2024, May). Testing, Socializing, Exploring: Characterizing Middle Schoolers’ Approaches to and Conceptions of ChatGPT. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-17).