ALT Lab Research
Located at an ADA-accessible first floor location of the Lindquist Center, the ALT Lab studies emerging technologies for learning and new ways to observe their impact.
The lab aims to build, test, and disseminate emerging technologies for learning, while observing usage and impact with dynamic, multimodal data sources such as eye-trackers, wearables, videos, or log.
Ongoing Projects
Disagreeing Well
How can AI assist youth in understanding, discussing, and forming a voice in complex socio-scientific issues? We test a tool that helps learners engage in perspective-taking and build substantiated opinions through dialogue.
ADHD and AI Use
The project pursues two related questions: What are the behavioral manifestations of ADHD in authentic tasks? How do students with ADHD use AI chatbots in academic tasks?
AI Offloading Survey
We develop a new scale for AI Offloading that relies on a non-normative, developmental understanding of the construct.
Redesigning Engineering Education
In collaboration with faculty leadership at the College of Engineering, this project seeks to redesign core courses to help future engineers become expert collaborators with AI.
A Validity Framework for Multimodal Learning Analytics
This literature review and framework article adapts the construct of validity to guide decisions in multimodal learning analytics, where varied data sources including sensors are used to make conjectures about the learning process.
How are we constraining AI use? A review
The idea of friction is used to map out how existing AI learning tools have constrained the use of generative AI in their designs - in what shape, through what delivery methods, and to what effect.