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Jason Yip

Jason Yip an assistant professor of digital youth at The Information School and an adjunct assistant professor in Human-Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. He earned a Ph.D. in science education from the University of Maryland – College Park, and a Masters in science and math education and a Bachelors in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania.

Jason is also the PI and co-PI on several projects focusing on answering the question: “How do new technologies support collaborative learning in families?” To answer this question, he builds innovative technologies for new collaborations and he examines how current technological trends already influence family collaborations around learning. He uses theories and design methods from human-computer interaction, learning sciences, and information sciences to study these family interactions.

Caroline Pitt

Caroline Pitt is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Information School at the University of Washington, Seattle, with a partial appointment to Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE). She received her doctorate and master's in information science from the iSchool and undergraduate degrees in psychology and anthropology from the University of Maryland, College Park. She currently acts as lab manager for KidsTeam UW. Her research focuses on designing informal educational technologies with and for youth and their communities, as well as developing best practices for concluding long-term research-practice partnerships in informal settings. She is also interested in the potential of tabletop roleplaying and other games for collaborative learning, and the potential for machine learning/AI to support executive function. She has published in the journals Information and Learning Science and Library & Information Science Research, as well as presented at CHI (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems), IDC (Interaction Design and Children) , and the AERA (American Educational Research Association) annual meeting.

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