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Heather Pon-Barry

Publication

Pon-Barry, H., Packard, B. W., & St. John, A. (2017). Expanding capacity and promoting inclusion in introductory computer science: A focus on near-peer mentor preparation and code review. Computer Science Education, 27(1), 54–77.

Chaffey, T., Kim, H., Nobrega, E., Lubold, N., & Pon-Barry, H. (2018). Dyadic Stance in Natural Language Communication with a Teachable Robot. In HRI '18 Companion: 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 85–86.

Lubold, N., Walker, E., Pon-Barry, H., & Ogan, A. (2018). Automated Pitch Convergence Improves Learning in a Social, Teachable Robot for Middle School Mathematics. In Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED).

Lubold, N., Walker, E., & Pon-Barry, H. (2021). Effects of Adapting to User Pitch on Rapport Perception, Behavior, and State with a Social Robotic Learning Companion. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 31: 35-73.

Das, R. & Pon-Barry, H. (2018). Turn-taking strategies for human-robot peer-learning dialogue. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), pp. 119-129, Melbourne, Australia, July 2018.

Lubold, N., Walker, E., Pon-Barry, H., & Ogan, A. (2019). Comfort with Robots Influences Rapport with a Social, Entraining Teachable Robot. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education.

Heather Pon-Barry, Audrey St. John, Becky Packard, Barbara Rotundo. Megas and Gigas Educate (MaGE): A Curricular Peer Mentoring Program. Poster in Proc. of 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education (SIGCSE 2016), Memphis, TN, 2016.

Andrew G. Reiter

Publication

Kyle, B. J. & Reiter, A. G. (2023) Military Legal Power, Unchecked. NACLA Report on the Americas 55(4): 430-36

Kyle, B.K., and Reiter, A.G. (2022, April 8). For Hemispheric Unity, a Change in U.S. Foreign Policy is Needed. NACLA Report on the Americas.