[CV – updated February 3, 2016 – pdf]

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND – COLLEGE PARK
College of Education
Ph.D. Curriculum & Instruction (2014)
Affiliated with the Human-Computer Interaction Lab
Committee: Allison Druin (chair, adviser), Mike Stieff (co-adviser), Andrew Elby, June Ahn, and Tamara Clegg
Dissertation: The Evolution of Science Ownership in Learners Engaged in Design and Technology Usage

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Graduate School of Education
M.S. Science and Mathematics Education (2001 – 2002)
Advisers: Kenneth Tobin and Jeanne Vissa

College of Arts and Sciences
B.A. Chemistry, Cum Laude (1997 – 2001)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Design-based research, curriculum development, families and media, human-computer interaction (child-computer interaction), games and learning, informal education, learning sciences, participatory design (cooperative inquiry), science education (chemistry), self-identity and ownership, visualization technology

APPOINTMENTS

University of Washington – Seattle
Information School
Assistant Professor of Digital Youth, January 2015 – present

Sesame Workshop
Joan Ganz Cooney Center
Senior Research Fellow, 2015 – present
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Fall 2013 – Fall 2014

AWARDS & HONORS

International Conference of the Learning Sciences 2014 Best Student Paper Award Nominee (Top 4%)

International Conference of the Learning Sciences 2014 Best Paper Award Nominee (Top 4%)

Sesame Workshop – Joan Ganz Cooney Center Fellow (2013 – 2014)

Yahoo! Human-Computer Interaction Lab Student Research Award (Honorable mention, 2013)

Second Place Best Oral Presentation (Education) – University of Maryland: Graduate Interaction Research Day (2013)

Finalist for Best Social Media Expo Project Award for iConference. Fort Worth, Texas (2013)

Doctoral Consortium of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences. Sydney, Australia (2012)

Gordon Research Conference: Visualization in Science Education – Visionary Grant Winner (2011)

University of Pennsylvania – John Merck Institute Scholar (2001)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholar (1997)

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

Ahn, J., Clegg, T., Yip, J.C., Bonsignore, E., Pauw, D., Gubbels, M., Lewittes, B., & Rhodes, E. (in press).  Seeing the unseen learner: Designing and using social media to recognize children’s science dispositions in action. Learning, Media, and Technology.
[h5-index – 20, Impact factor – 0.958]

Stieff, M., Ryu, M., & Yip, J.C. (2013). Speaking across levels—teacher and student discourse practices in the chemistry classroom. Chemistry Education Research and Practice.
[h5-index – 17, Impact factor – 1.075]

Foss, E., Guha, M.L,, Papadatos, P., Clegg, T., Yip, J., and Walsh, G. (2013). Cooperative Inquiry extended: Creating technology with middle school students with learning differences. Journal of Special Education Technology, 28(3), 33-46.
[Acceptance rate: 11 – 20%]

Foss, E., Hutchinson, H., Druin, A., Yip, J., Ford, W., & Golub, E. (2013). How adolescents search the Internet: Search roles and adult stakeholders. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 64(1), 173-189.
[h5-index – 54, Impact factor: 2.081]

Sechler, J. M. G., Yip, J. and Rosenberg, A. S. (1997) Genetic variation among 129 substrains: Practical consequences. J. Immunol. 159. 5766–5768.
[Impact factor – 6.937]

PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (REFEREED)

Yip, J.C., Clegg, T., Ahn, J., Uchidiuno, J., Bonsignore, E., Beck, A., Pauw, D., & Mills, K. (2016). The evolution of roles and social bonds during child-parent co-design. In Proceedings of SIGCHI Human Factors. New York, NY: ACM.
[h5-index – 84, Acceptance rate – 23.8%]

Pauw, D., Clegg, T., Ahn, J., Bonsignore, E., Yip, J.C. , & Uchidiuno, J. (2015). Navigating connected inquiry learning with ScienceKit. In Proceedings of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL2015).
[h5-index – 15, Acceptance rate – 36%]

Gelderblom, H., Yip. J.C., Bonsignore, E., & Chimbo, B. (accepted). Self-recorded audio feedback as a means to allow young, vulnerable children to participate in design. Proceedings of the 8th International Development Informatics Association Conference (IDIA 2014). 

Yip, J.C., Ahn, J., Clegg, T.L., Bonsignore, E., Pauw, D. & Gubbels., M. (2014). “It helped me do my science.” A case of designing social media technologies for children in science learning. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2014).
[h5-index – 19, Acceptance rate – 31%]

Yip, J.C., Clegg, T.L., Ahn, J., Bonsignore, E., Gubbels, M., Rhodes, E., & Lewittes, B. (2014). The role of identity development within tensions in ownership of science learning. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2014).
[h5-index – 16, Acceptance rate – 30%]
FINALIST for Best Student Paper Award (Top 4%)

Clegg, T.L., Bonsignore, E., Ahn, J., Yip, J.C., Pauw, D., & Gubbels, M. (2014). Capturing personal and social science: Technology for integrating the building blocks of disposition. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2014).
[h5-index – 16, Acceptance rate – 30%]

Ahn, J., Subramaniam, M., Bonsignore, E., Pellicone, A., Waugh, A., & Yip, J.C. (accepted). “I want to be a game designer or scientist”: Connected learning and developing identities with urban, African-American youth. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2014).
[h5-index – 16, Acceptance rate – 30%]
FINALIST for Best Paper Award (Top 4%)

Yip, J.C., Clegg, T., Bonsignore, E., Gelderblom, H., Rhodes, E., & Druin, A. (2013). Brownies or Bags-of-Stuff? Domain expertise in Cooperative Inquiry with children. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’13) (pp. 201-210). New York, NY: ACM.
[h5-index – 17, Acceptance rate – 33%]

Clegg, T., Yip, J.C., Ahn, J., Bonsignore, E., Gubbels, M., Lewittis, B. & Rhodes, E. (2013). When face-to-face fails: Opportunities for social media to foster collaborative learning. In N. Rummel, M. Kapur, M. Nathan, & S. Puntambekar (Eds.), Proceedings of the Tenth Computer Supported Collaboration Learning Conference (CSCL 2013) (Vol. 1, pp. 113 – 120). Madison, WI.
[h5-index – 15, Acceptance rate – 36%]

Bonsignore, E., Ahn, J., Clegg, T.L., Guha, M.L., Hourcade, J.P., Yip, J.C. & Druin, A. (2013). Embedding participatory design into designs for learning: An untapped interdisciplinary resource? Symposium paper In N. Rummel, M. Kapur, M. Nathan, & S. Puntambekar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (Vol. 1, pp. 549-556). Madison, WI.
[h5-index – 15]

Walsh, G., Foss, E., Yip, J. & Druin, A. (2013). FACIT PD: A framework for analysis and creation of intergenerational techniques for participatory design. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013) (pp. 2893-2902). New York, NY: ACM.
[h5-index – 69, Acceptance rate – 20%]

Yip, J.C., Clegg, T.L., Bonsignore, E., Gelderblom, H., Lewites, B., Guha, M.L., & Druin, A. (2012, July). Kitchen Chemistry: Supporting learners’ decisions in science. In J. van Aalst, K. Thompson, M.J. Jacobson, and P. Reimann, (Eds.), Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) (Vol. 1, pp. 103 – 110). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
[h5-index – 6, Acceptance rate – 25%]

Clegg, T.L., Bonsignore, E., Yip, J.C., Gelderblom, H., Kuhn. A., Valenstein, T. & Druin, A. (2012, June). Technology for promoting scientific practice and personal meaning in life-relevant learning. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’12) (pp. 152-161). New York, NY: ACM.
[h5-index – 17, Acceptance rate – 29%]

Walsh, G., Druin, A., Guha, M.L., Bonsignore, E., Foss, E., Yip, J., Golub, E., Clegg, T., Brown, Q., & Brewer, R. (2012, June). DisCo: A co-design online tool for asynchronous distributed child and adult design partners. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’12) (pp. 11-19). New York, NY: ACM.
[h5-index – 17, Acceptance rate – 29%]

PUBLISHED SHORT PAPERS AND EXTENDED ABSTRACTS (REFEREED)

Hourcade, J.P., Nathan, L., Zaphiris, P., Chisik, Y., Rivera-Loaiza, C., & , J.C. (2016). Conflict and HCI: Preventing, deescalating, and recovering. In Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI Human Factors.

Davis, K., Fisher, K., Dahya, N., Yip, J.C., Eisenberg, M., & Mills, E. (2015). Youth perspectives on equity, access and information exchange in educational technology: Implications for research, practice, and policy. Digital Media & Learning Conference. Los Angeles, CA.

Baumer, E., … Yip, J.C. (2014). CHI 2039: Speculative research visions. CHI 2014 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Fisher, K., Eisenberg, M., Yip, J., Dahya, N., & Davis, K. (2014). Digital youth – The state of affairs. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology.

Bonsignore, E., Ahn, J., Clegg, T.L., Yip, J.C., Pauw, D., Gubbels, M., Lewettis, B., & Rhodes, E. Selfies for science: Collaborative configurations around ScienceKit. (2014). In Proceedings of the Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW2014).

Yip, J.C., Foss, E., Bonsignore, E., Guha, M.L., Norooz, L., Rhodes, E., McNally, B., Papadatos, P., Golub, E., & Druin, A. (2013). Children initiating and leading Cooperative Inquiry sessions. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’13) (pp. 293-296). New York, NY: ACM.

Ahn, J., Gubbels, M., Yip, J.C., Bonsignore, E., & Clegg, T.L. (2013). Using social media and learning analytics to understand how children engage in scientific inquiry. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’13). (pp. 427-430). New York, NY: ACM.

Ryan, S., Yip, J., Stieff, M., & Druin, A. (2013). Cooperative inquiry as a community of practice. In N. Rummel, M. Kapur, M. Nathan, & S. Puntambekar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL 2013) (Vol. 2, pp. 145-148). Madison, WI.
[h5-index – 15]

Gubbels, M., Yip, J.C., Kim, J., & Ahn, J. (2013) Science INQuiry. In Proceedings of the iConference 2013 (pp. 1102-1105). Ft. Worth, TX.
FINALIST for Best Social Media Expo Award

Yip, J.C., Clegg, T.L., Druin, A., Guha, M.L., Golub, E., Bonsignore, E., Foss, E., & Walsh, G. (2012). Kitchen Chemistry: Supporting learners’ decisions in science. In Proceedings of the Teachers College Educational Technology Conference 2012 (TCETC) (pp. 82 – 84). New York City, NY: Teachers College. 

WORKSHOP PAPERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS (REFEREED, UNBLIND)

Yip, J. et al. (2016, April). Connecting learners to place, space, and personal experience with technology and new media. Structured poster symposium at American Educational Research Association Conference. Washington, D.C.

Ahn, J., Clegg, T., Yip, J.C., Rick, J., & Bonsignore, E. (2015, June). Innovations in Learning and Design. Workshop paper in Interaction Design and Children. Boston, MA.

Yip, J.C. (2015). Participatory STEM learning in children and families. Early career workshop paper in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL 2015) (pp. 905 – 906). Gothenburg, Sweden.

Ahn, J., Yip, J.C. & Gubbels, M. SINQ: Designing social media to foster everyday scientific inquiry for children. (2013). Demonstration paper in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’13).

Yip, J.C., Bonsignore, E., Ahn, J., Clegg, T.L., & Guha, M.L. (2013) Building ScienceKit through Cooperative Inquiry. In Human-Computer Interaction and the Learning Sciences Workshop at the Tenth Computer Supported Collaboration Learning Conference (CSCL 2013). Madison, WI, USA.

Bonsignore, E., Yip, J.C., Ahn, J., Clegg, T.L., & Guha, M.L. (2013). Designing for learners, with learners: Toward a theory of Cooperative Inquiry in the design of learning technologies. In Human-Computer Interaction and the Learning Sciences Workshop at the Tenth Computer Supported Collaboration Learning Conference (CSCL 2013). Madison, WI, USA.

Yip, J.C., Foss, E, & Guha, M.L. (2012, October). Co-designing with adolescents. In Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Technology for Teens Workshop at NordiCHI. Copenhagen, Denmark.

INVITED PAPERS (UNBLIND)

Clegg, T., Ahn, J., Yip, J., Bonsignore, E., & Pauw, D. Scientizing with ScienceKit: Social media and storytelling mobile apps for developing playful scientist disposition. Educational Technology.

PUBLISHED CURRICULA

Joan Ganz Cooney Center (2015). The Apple Guide to Apps for Children and Families. Cupertino, CA.

Stieff, M., Nighelli, T., Yip, J., Ryan, S., & Berry, A. (2012) The Connected Chemistry Curriculum (Vol. 1-9). Chicago, IL: University of Illinois at Chicago.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS

2016

Yip, J.C., Clegg, T., Ahn, J., Uchidiuno, J., Bonsignore, E., Beck, A., Pauw, D., & Mills, K. (2016, May). The evolution of roles and social bonds during child-parent co-design. Presentation at SIGCHI Human Factors Conference. San Jose, CA.

Yip, J. (2016, April). Freddie science: Can we tease apart science and engineering identities? Roundtable paper discussion at the American Educational Research Association Conference. Washington, D.C.

2015

Yip, J.C. (2015, October). National Science Foundation workshop: Designing media for underserved families (second session). Invited workshop at Stanford University – d.school. Menlo Park, CA.

Yip, J. (2015, October). Families and Media. Invited meeting at Stanford University. Menlo Park, CA.

Yip, J. (2015, October). Online information brokering in children of limited English proficient families. Invited talk at Google. Mountain View, CA.

Yip, J. (2015, October). Education technologies and inequities. Invited talk at University of Washington – Communications. Seattle, WA.

Janes, J., Lee, J., Williams, H., & Yip, J.C. (2015, September). Masters of Library and Information Studies orientation. Panelist at University of Washington – iSchool. Seattle, WA.

Ahn, J., Clegg, T., Yip, J.C., Rick, J., & Bonsignore, E. (2015, June). Innovations in Learning and Design. Invited workshop leader at Interaction Design and Children. Boston, MA.

Fisher, K., Davis, K., Dahya, N., Yip, J.C. & Mills, E. (2015, June). Digital youth: The state of affairs. Invited panelist presentation at the Digital Media and Learning. Los Angeles, CA.

Yip, J.C. (2015, June). Early Career Workshop. Invited participant at Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Conference. Gothenburg, Sweden.

Yip, J.C. (2015, May). Participatory Youth! Invited presentation at Design Use Build (DUB) Talk. University of Washington. Seattle, WA.

Braun, L., Davis, K., Dahya, N., & Yip, J.C. (2015, April) Invited panelist at iAffliates Day. Seattle Public Library. Seattle, WA.

Yip, J.C. (2015, January). Talking with policy makers and politicians. Invited National Science Foundation panel talk at CIRCL meeting. Arlington, VA.

Clegg, T., Ahn, J., & Yip, J.C. (2015, January). Science Everywhere. Invited meeting with Senator Barbara Mikulski’s (Maryland) office staff. Washington, DC.

Yip, J.C. (2015, January). National Science Foundation workshop: Designing media for underserved families. Invited workshop at Stanford University – d.school. Menlo Park, CA.

 2014

Fisher, K., Eisenberg, M., Davis, K., Dahya, N., Mills, E., & Yip, J.C. (2014, November). Digital youth: The state of affairs. Invited panelist presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). Seattle, WA.

Yip, J.C., Clegg, T.L., Ahn, J., Bonsignore, E., Gubbels, M., Rhodes, E., & Lewittes, B. (2014, June). The role of identity development within tensions in ownership of science learning. Full paper presented at the Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2014). Boulder, CO.

Yip, J.C. (2014, June). Interactive technologies for early childhood: Harmful or helpful. Tutorial at the 13^th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2014). Aarhus, Denmark.

Yip, J.C. (2014, May). From the HCIL to Sesame Street. Presentation at the 31^th Annual Human-Computer Interaction Symposium. College Park, MD.

Yip, J.C. (April, 2014). How to prepare your job application. Invited speaker at University of Maryland. College Park, MD.

Yip, J.C. (March, 2014). Co-design and joint media engagement. Invited guest online lecturer at Ryerson University. Toronto, ON, Canada.

Yip, J.C. (February, 2014). Building bridges. Invited speaker at the College of Education at the Pennsylvania State University. State College, PA.

Yip, J.C. (February, 2014). Building bridges. Invited speaker at the College of Education and Human Ecology at the Ohio State University. Columbus, OH.

Yip, J.C. (February, 2014). Participatory youth!. Invited speaker at the New York Hall of Science. St. Corona, NY.

Yip, J.C. (February, 2014). Children’s information search behaviors. Invited guest lecturer at the Information School at the University of Washington – Seattle. Seattle, WA.

Yip, J.C. (February, 2014). Participatory youth!. Invited speaker at the Information School at the University of Washington – Seattle. Seattle, WA.

2013

Yip, J.C. (December, 2013). Building bridges. Invited speaker at the Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst. Amherst, MA.

Yip, J.C. (October, 2013). Children’s game design panel. Invited panelist presented at Digital Designers Guild at University of Baltimore. Baltimore, MD.

Yip, J.C. (August, 2013). Pros and cons of blogs for educators. Invited Lecture presented at University of Maryland – College Park, EDCI 614: Developing a professional portfolio. College Park, MD.

Yip, J.C., Clegg, T., Bonsignore, E., Gelderblom, H., Rhodes, E., & Druin, A. (2013, June). Brownies or Bags-of-Stuff? Domain expertise in Cooperative Inquiry with children. Full paper presentation at the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’13). New York City, NY, USA.

Clegg, T., Yip, J.C., Ahn, J., Bonsignore, E., Gubbels, M., Lewettis, B. & Rhodes, E. (2013, June). When face-to-face fails: Opportunities for social media to foster collaborative learning. Full paper presentation at the Proceedings of the Tenth Computer Supported Collaboration Learning Conference (CSCL 2013). Madison, WI, USA.

Ryan, S., Yip, J.C., Stieff, M. & Druin, A. (2013, June). Cooperative inquiry as communities of practice. Short paper presented at the Proceedings of the Tenth Computer Supported Collaboration Learning Conference (CSCL 2013). Madison, WI, USA.

Bonsignore, E., Ahn, J., Clegg, T.L., Guha, M.L., Hourcade, J.P., Yip, J.C. & Druin, A. (2013, June) Embedding participatory design into designs for learning: An untapped interdisciplinary resource? Invited symposium at the Tenth Computer Supported Collaboration Learning Conference (CSCL 2013). Madison, WI, USA.

Walsh, G., Foss, E., Yip, J. & Druin, A. (2013, June). FACIT PD: Framework for analysis and creation of intergenerational techniques for participatory design. Presentation and poster presented at the 30^th Annual Human-Computer Interaction Symposium. College Park, MD.

Yip, J.C. (2013, May). Technology for promoting ownership in science learning. Presentation and poster presented at the 30^th Annual Human-Computer Interaction Symposium. College Park, MD, USA.

Walsh, G., Foss, E., Yip, J. & Druin, A. (2013, May). FACIT PD: Framework for analysis and creation of intergenerational techniques for participatory design. Full paper presented at the Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013). Paris, France.

Yip. J.C. (2013, April). Building a conceptual model of ownership in science learning. Invited talk at University of Maryland – Graduate Research Interaction Day. College Park, MD, USA.

Yip. J.C. (2013, April). Building a conceptual model of ownership in science learning. Invited talk at University of Maryland – Graduate Research Interaction Day. College Park, MD.

Gubbels, M., Yip, J.C., Kim, J., & Ahn, J. (2013, February). Science INQuiry. Extended abstract and poster presented at the iConference 2013, Ft. Worth, TX, USA.

2012

Yip, J.C., Foss, E., & Guha, M.L. (2012, October). Co-designing with adolescents. Invited workshop at the Designing Interactive Technology for Teens Workshop at NordiCHI. Copenhagen, Denmark.

Yip, J.C., Clegg, T.L., Bonsignore, E., Gelderblom, H., Lewites, B., Guha, M.L., & Druin, A. (2012, July). Kitchen Chemistry: Supporting learners’ decisions in science. Full paper presented at the Tenth International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS). Sydney, Australia.

Clegg, T.L., Bonsignore, E., Yip, J.C., Gelderblom, H., Kuhn. A., Valenstein, T. & Druin, A. (2012, June). Technology for promoting scientific practice and personal meaning in life-relevant learning. Full paper presented at the Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC). Breman, Germany.

Walsh, G., Druin, A., Guha, M.L., Bonsignore, E., Foss, E., Yip, J., Golub, E., Clegg, T., Brown, Q., & Brewer, R. (2012, June). DisCo: A co-design online tool for asynchronous distributed child and adult design partners. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC). Breman, Germany.

Clegg, T.L., Yip, J.C., Bonsignore, E., Rhodes, E. & Druin, A. (2012, June). Technology for promoting scientific practice and personal meaning in life-relevant learning. Presentation and poster presented at the 29^th Annual Human-Computer Interaction Symposium. College Park, MD.

Yip, J.C. (2012, May). Cooperative inquiry in designing technology in life-relevant learning for science. Paper presented at the Teachers College Educational Technology Conference, New York, NY.

Bonsignore, E., Clegg, T., & Yip, J.C. (2012, April). Life-relevant learning. Invited panelist presented at Association of Independent Maryland & DC Schools Technology Retreat, St. Michaels, MD.

Yip, J.C., Clegg, T.L., Druin, A., Guha, M.L., Golub, E., Bonsignore, E., Foss, E., & Walsh, G. (2012, April). Cooperative inquiry in designing technology in life-relevant learning for science. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Stieff, M., Ryu, M., Yip, J.C. (2012, April). Speaking across levels: Generating and addressing levels confusion in discourse. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

2011

Clegg, T. & Yip, J.C. (2011, October). Kitchen Chemistry: Technology for supporting children’s choice in life-relevant learning. Presentation at the Human-Computer Interaction Lab, College Park, MD.

Yip, J.C., Ahn, J. & Yeh, T. (2011, July). BUMP Science. Poster presented at Gordon Research Conference – Visualization in Science Education. Smithfield, RI.

Ryan, S., & Yip, J., Nighelli, T., & Stieff, M. (2011, June). Using participatory design to develop visualization for learning. Poster presented at the Gordon Research Conference on Visualization in Science and Education Conference. Smithfield, RI.

Yip, J.C., Clegg, T., Druin, A., & Cavallo, D. (2011, June). Kitchen Chemistry: A context for developing technology for life-relevant learning. Poster presented at Chemical Education Research Conference. Miami, OH.

Yip, J.C., Clegg, T., Druin, A., & Cavallo, D. (2011, May). Kitchen Chemistry: A context for developing technology for life-relevant learning. Presentation at the Human-Computer Interaction Lab Symposium. College Park, MD.

Yip, J. C., Jaber, L. Z., & Stieff, M. (2011, April). Examining changes in students’ coordination of verbal and pictorial chemical representations in response to instruction. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association. New Orleans, LA.

2010

Yip, J., & Stieff, M. (2010, May). Examining teacher decision-making during enactments of novel technology-infused curricula. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO.

Yip, J., & Stieff, M. (2010, March). Examining teacher decision-making during enactments of novel technology-infused curricula. Poster presented at the Graduate Student Conference at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

Yip. J.C. (2010, Spring). Connected Chemistry. Presentation at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

2009

Stieff, M., Ryu, M., & Yip, J. (2009, April). Speaking across levels-teacher & student perspectives of chemistry. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.

TRAVEL AWARDS

 2013    

University of Maryland – International Conference Student Support Award: $430

University of Maryland – Graduate Research Interaction Day 2013: $305

iConference 2013: Social Media Expo Grant (Microsoft FUSE Lab): $3,000

University of Maryland – College of Education Travel Grant: $200

2012    

University of Maryland – College of Education International Travel Grant: $1,000

University of Maryland – Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Award: $600

Doctoral Consortium of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences: $1,750

2011    

Gordon Research Conference – Visualization in Science Education: $800

Chemical Education Research Conference: $600

RESEARCH FUNDING EXPERIENCE

2016

Design Thinking and Digital Games in Libraries
Funder: University of Washington – iSchool Strategic Research Fund Proposal (submitted)
Investigators: Jinha Lee (Co-PI)
Role: PI

Design Thinking and Digital Games in Libraries
Funder: Institute of Library and Museum Services: National Leadership Grants for Libraries (letter of intent submitted)
Investigators: Jinha Lee (Co-PI), Lisa Castaneda (Co-PI, foundry10), Justin Bonny (Co-PI, foundry10), Tom Swanson (Co-PI, foundry10)
Role: PI

2015

Design for Libraries and Librarians Course Development
Funder: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (not funded)
Investigators: Jinha Lee (PI), Mike Crandall, Helene Williams, Rachel Clarke, & Randy Orwin
Role: Key-Personnel

Supporting youth online information brokers: The role of amplification theory as a tool for HCI design in families with limited English proficiency
Funder: National Science Foundation Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) (submitted)
Role: Sole PI

Youth Searching and Brokering Online Information For Latino Families With Limited English Proficiency
Funder: Google Faculty Research Award, $69,000
Investigators: Carmen Gonzalez (Co-PI)
Role: PI

Youth Searching and Brokering Online Information For Latino Families With Limited English Proficiency
Funder: University of Washington Royalty Research Fund (competitive, not funded, resubmit in March 2016)
Investigators: Carmen Gonzalez (Co-PI)
Role: PI

CuriousMe: Engaging Youth in Explanations of Everyday Natural and Artificial Systems
Funder: National Science Foundation CyberLearning, (competitive, not funded)
Investigators: Andrew Ko (PI), Katie Davis (Co-PI)
Role: Co-PI

 

2014

ScienceKit for ScienceEverywhere – A Seamless Scientizing Ecosystem for Raising Scientifically-Minded Children
2014 – 2018
Funder: National Science Foundation CyberLearning DIP, $1.35 million, Award#:1441523

Investigators: Tamara Clegg (PI), June Ahn (Co-PI)
Role: Co-PI

2013

Joan Ganz Cooney Center Fellowship Award
2013 – 2014
Funder: Sesame Workshop, $50,000
Role: Fellowship recipient

2012

Technologies for Supporting Life-Relevant Learning
National Science Foundation CyberLearning, (resubmission)
Principal Investigators (Tamara Clegg, Lori Takeuchi – Joan Ganz Cooney Center, June Ahn)

2011

Developing Video Games for Science Museums
National Science Foundation Seed Grant, $6,000
Principal Investigator (Kurt Squire)
Researchers (Sarah Chu – University of Wisconsin: Madison, Jason Haas – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Christine Roman – St. Louis Science Center)
Investigation into the development and implementation of video games in the St. Louis Science Center

Technologies for Supporting Life-Relevant Learning
National Science Foundation CyberLearning, (competitive category, not funded)
Principal Investigators (Allison Druin, Tamara Clegg, and David Cavallo)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

INSTRUCTOR OF RECORD

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON – SEATTLE
Information School
INFX 598 Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
Spring 2015

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND – COLLEGE PARK
College of Information Studies
LSBC 708N Human-Computer Interaction Design Methods
Fall 2011

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
School of Arts and Sciences
Urban Studies 208
2000 – 2001

GRADUATE SUPERVISOR

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND – COLLEGE PARK
Master’s Certification Program (MCERT) and the Transition from Laboratory and Classroom (TLC)
2008 – 2010

TEACHER

JAMES HUBERT BLAKE HIGH SCHOOL
Silver Spring, Maryland
Chemistry (Standard and AP) Teacher
2006 – 2008

THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Chemistry (Standard and AP), Biology, and Mathematics Teacher
2002 – 2006

UNIVERSITY CITY HIGH SCHOOL
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Student Teacher
2001 – 2002

PROFESSIONAL & SERVICE ACTIVITIES

Ad-Hoc Reviewer

The Information Society
International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction
Journal of Children and Media
Learning, Media, and Technology

Conference Reviewer

ACM CHIPLAY (2015)
ACM Interaction Design for Children (IDC 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Reviewer (CHI 2013, 2014, 2015); Associate Chair (CHI 2016)
American Education Research Association Conference (SIG-ATL 2015)
FabLearn (2014)
iConference (2015)
International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2014)
South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference (SAICSIT 2014)
Teachers College Education Technology Conference (TCETC 2012)

Committees

University of Washington – Seattle
Masters of Library and Information Science Program Committee (2015 – 2016)
Diversity Committee (2014 – 2015)

University of Maryland – College Park
The Graduate Research and Education Leadership Committee (2010 – 2011)
Student Advisory Committee on Technology (2008 – 2010)

 

Societies

International Society of the Learning Sciences: Membership and Communications (2015, 2016)

Conference and Symposium Preparations

University of Washington – Seattle Digital Youth Think Thank (2014)
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference (CHI 2011)
ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2013)
Future of Information Alliance (FIA 2011 – 2013)
Human-Computer Interaction Lab Annual Symposium (HCIL 2011 – 2013)

iSchool Volunteer Activities and Service

Native girls and coding: Tour of the iSchool space (2016, January 16)