Projects
Multi-modal Analytics Tools for Personalized & Contextual Teacher Feedback
Teaching is a profession in which feedback is often impersonal and infrequent. In this project, we collaborated with researchers, faculty, and K-12 teachers to design tools to scale human observation and provide automated multimodal analytics through ubiquitous sensing systems in the classroom. 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, Neeharika Vogety, Nikhil Behari, Chris Harrison, John Zimmerman, Amy Ogan, & Yuvraj Agarwal. 2024. Edulyze: Learning Analytics for Real World Classrooms at Scale. Tools and Data Report in Journal of Learning Analytics (JLA).
Prasoon Patidar, Tricia J. Ngoon, John Zimmerman, Amy Ogan, & Yuvraj Agarwal. 2024. ClassID: Enabling Student Behavior Attribution from Ambient Classroom Sensing Systems. In ACM Journal on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable, & Ubiquitous Technologies (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. In ACM Human Factors in Computing (CHI'24) Proceedings.
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. In ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS'23) Proceedings. Honorable Mention (Top 5%)
Supporting Teachers in Low-Infrastructure Contexts
Teachers in low-infrastructure contexts face challenges related to technological, 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.
Tricia J. Ngoon, Vikram Kamath Cannanure, Kaja Jasinska, Sharon Wolf, & Amy Ogan. 2024. “I believe I did not preach into the desert”: Opportunities & Challenges in Scaling Teacher Mentorship through Mobile Technology in Rural Côte d’Ivoire. In ACM Learning at Scale (L@S'24) Proceedings.
Vikram Kamath Cannanure, Tricia J. Ngoon, Kaja Jasinska, Sharon Wolf, Amy Ogan, & Tim Brown. 2024. Understanding the Longitudinal Impacts of a Chatbot to Facilitate a Virtual Community of Practice for Teachers in Rural Cote d’Ivoire. In ACM Journal on Computing & Sustainable Societies (COMPASS'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. In ACM Journal on Computing & Sustainable Societies (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. In ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS'21) Proceedings.
C. Ailie Fraser, Tricia J. Ngoon, Mira Dontcheva, and Scott Klemmer. 2019. RePlay: Contextually Presenting Learning Videos Across Software Applications. In ACM Human Factors in Computing (CHI'19) Proceedings. 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. In ACM Human Factors in Computing (CHI'18) Proceedings. 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. In ACM User Interface Software & Technology (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