Projects
Multi-modal Analytics Tools for Personalized & Contextual Professional Feedback
Professional development in fields where interactions with people are critical for professional success is often impersonal and infrequent. In this project, we collaborate with researchers, professionals, faculty, and K-12 teachers to design tools to scale human obervation and provide automated multimodal analytics through ubiquitous sensing systems in the classroom and workplace. My work aims to advance innovation in this domain as well as to understand perceptions and impact around these systems, particularly with regards to ethical AI, privacy, and social dynamics.
Prasoon Patidar, Tricia J. Ngoon, John Zimmerman, Amy Ogan, & Yuvraj Agarwal. ClassID: Enabling Student Behavior Attribution from Ambient Classroom Sensing Systems. To appear in IMWUT'24.
Tricia J. Ngoon, S Sushil, Angela Stewart, Ung-Sang Lee, Saranya Venkatramen, Neil Thawani, Prasenjit Mitra, Sherice Clarke, John Zimmerman, & Amy Ogan. 2024. ClassInSight: Designing Conversation Support Tools to Visualize Classroom Discussion for Personalized Teacher Professional Development. To appear in CHI'24.
Tricia J. Ngoon, David Kovalev, Prasoon Patidar, Yuvraj Agarwal, Chris Harrison, John Zimmerman, & Amy Ogan. 2023. “An instructor can [already] keep track of 30 students”: Students’ Perceptions of Smart Classrooms for Improving Teaching and Their Emergent Understandings of Teaching and Learning. DIS'23. Honorable Mention (Top 5%)
Supporting Teachers in Low-Infrastructure Contexts
Teachers in low-infrastructure contexts face challenges related to technology, economic, and environmental infrastructure. In this project, we designed a social media-based chatbot to help teachers in rural Côte d'Ivoire get quick, automated guidance and facilitate communication within their communities of practice. Taking an aspirations-based approach, we explore the impact of technology on teacher learning, motivation, self-efficacy, and feelings of community.
Vikram Cannanure, Tricia J. Ngoon, Kaja Jasinska, Sharon Wolf, Amy Ogan, & Tim Brown. Understanding the Longitudinal Impacts of a Chatbot to Facilitate a Virtual Community of Practice for Teachers in Rural Cote d’Ivoire. To appear in COMPASS'24.
Tricia J. Ngoon, Vikram Cannanure, Kaja Jasinska, Sharon Wolf, & Amy Ogan. “I believe I did not preach into the desert”: Opportunities & Challenges in Scaling Teacher Mentorship through Mobile Technology in Rural Côte d’Ivoire. To appear in L@S'24.
Vikram Kamath Cannanure, Eloísa Ávila-Uribe, Tricia J. Ngoon, Yves Adji, Sharon Wolf, Kaja Jasińska, Timothy Brown, and Amy Ogan. 2022. “We dream of climbing the ladder; to get there, we have to do our job better”: Designing for Teacher Aspirations in rural Côte d’Ivoire. COMPASS'22.
Adaptive Guidance Tools for Supporting Exploratory Thinking in Creative Work
In any creative domain, novices have difficulty exploring the potential space of possibilities because they don't yet have the domain knowledge to know what to explore nor the procedural knowledge to know how to explore. For my PhD dissertation, I studied strategies to help scaffold novices in exploratory thinking and implemented these strategies within creativity support tools.
Tricia J. Ngoon. 2021. Interactive Attunement Catalyzes Creative Learning. UC San Diego Dissertation for Cognitive Science.
Tricia J. Ngoon, Joy O. Kim, & Scott Klemmer. 2021. Shöwn: Adaptive Conceptual Guidance Aids Example Use in Creative Tasks. DIS'21.
C. Ailie Fraser, Tricia J. Ngoon, Mira Dontcheva, and Scott Klemmer. 2019. RePlay: Contextually Presenting Learning Videos Across Software Applications. CHI'19. Honorable Mention (Top 5%)
Tricia J. Ngoon*, C. Ailie Fraser*, Ariel S. Weingarten, Mira Dontcheva, and Scott Klemmer. 2018. Interactive Guidance Techniques for Improving Creative Feedback. CHI'18. Honorable Mention (Top 5%) (* denotes equal contribution)
C. Ailie Fraser, Tricia J. Ngoon, Ariel Weingarten, Mira Dontcheva, & Scott Klemmer. 2017. CritiqueKit: A Mixed-Initiative, Real-Time Interface for Improving Feedback. UIST'17 Companion.
Other Projects
Throughout my career, I am fortunate to have collaborated on several projects related to creativity, patterning in children, and math cognition.
CogSci '22 (Abstract), C&C '19 (Extended abstract), CSCW '16 (Demo), L@S '16 (Extended abstract), NPJ '18, Journal of Neuroscience '15