People

Current members

Sayamindu Dasgupta

Assistant Professor

Murtaza Ali

Graduate Student

Mina Zavary

Graduate Student

Publications

• From Data Activism to Activism in a Time of Data-Centrism: Affirming Epistemological Heterogeneity in Social Movements

  McKane Andrus, Sucheta Ghoshal, and Sayamindu Dasgupta (2025)
  Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., 9(2)

• The Social Construction of Visualizations: Practitioner Challenges and Experiences of Visualizing Race and Gender

  Priya Dhawka, and Sayamindu Dasgupta (2025)
  Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (CHI '25)

  Honorable mention

• "Even Though I Went Through Everything, I Didn't Feel Like I Learned a Lot": Insights From Experiences of Non-Computer Science Students Learning to Code

  Murtaza Ali, and Sayamindu Dasgupta (2025)
  Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (CHI '25)

• Concepts, practices, and perspectives for developing computational data literacy: Insights from workshops with a new data programming system

  Ruijia Cheng, Aayushi Dangol, Frances Marie Tabio Ello, Lingyu Wang, and Sayamindu Dasgupta (2023)
  Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM interaction design and children conference, (IDC '23)

  [Blog post, Project website]

• Constructionist approaches to critical data literacy: A review

  Aayushi Dangol, and Sayamindu Dasgupta (2023)
  Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM interaction design and children conference, (IDC '23)

  [Blog post]

• Design values in action: Toward a theory of value dilution

  Sucheta Ghoshal, and Sayamindu Dasgupta (2023)
  Proceedings of the 2023 ACM designing interactive systems conference, (DIS '23)

  Best paper

• Taking stock of concept inventories in computing education: A systematic literature review

  Murtaza Ali, Sourojit Ghosh, Prerna Rao, Raveena Dhegaskar, Sophia Jawort, Alix Medler, Mengqi Shi, and Sayamindu Dasgupta (2023)
  Proceedings of the 2023 ACM conference on international computing education research - volume 1, (ICER '23)

• The social embeddedness of peer production: A comparative qualitative analysis of three Indian language Wikipedia editions

  Sejal Khatri, Aaron Shaw, Sayamindu Dasgupta, and Benjamin Mako Hill (2022)
  Proceedings of the 2022 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems, (CHI '22)

  Honorable mention

• How interest-driven content creation shapes opportunities for informal learning in scratch: A case study on novices’ use of data structures

  Ruijia Cheng, Sayamindu Dasgupta, and Benjamin Mako Hill (2022)
  Proceedings of the 2022 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems, (CHI '22)

  Honorable mention

• Wikipedia Edit-a-Thons as Sites of Public Pedagogy

  Laura March, and Sayamindu Dasgupta (2020)
  Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., 4(CSCW2)

  [Non-paywalled copy]

• Gender, Feedback, and Learners' Decisions to Share Their Creative Computing Projects

  Emilia F. Gan, Benjamin Mako Hill, and Sayamindu Dasgupta (2018)
  Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., 2(CSCW)

• How “Wide Walls” Can Increase Engagement: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in Scratch

  Sayamindu Dasgupta, and Benjamin Mako Hill (2018)
  Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (CHI '18)

• Youth Perspectives on Critical Data Literacies

  Samantha Hautea, Sayamindu Dasgupta, and Benjamin Mako Hill (2017)
  Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (CHI '17)

• Scratch Community Blocks: Supporting Children As Data Scientists

  Sayamindu Dasgupta, and Benjamin Mako Hill (2017)
  Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (CHI '17)

  Honorable mention

• Learning to Code in Localized Programming Languages

  Sayamindu Dasgupta, and Benjamin Mako Hill (2017)
  Proceedings of the Fourth (2017) ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, (L@S '17)

• Children’s Civic Engagement in the Scratch Online Community

  Ricarose Roque, Sayamindu Dasgupta, and Sasha Costanza-Chock (2016)
  Social Sciences, 5(4)

• Skill Progression in Scratch Revisited

  J. Nathan Matias, Sayamindu Dasgupta, and Benjamin Mako Hill (2016)
  Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (CHI '16)

• Remixing As a Pathway to Computational Thinking

  Sayamindu Dasgupta, William Hale, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, and Benjamin Mako Hill (2016)
  Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing, (CSCW '16)

  Honorable mention

• Extending Scratch: New pathways into programming

  Sayamindu Dasgupta, Shane M. Clements, Abdulrahman Y. Idlbi, Chris Willis-Ford, and Mitchel Resnick (2015)
  2015 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), (%!s(<nil>))

• Engaging Novices in Programming, Experimenting, and Learning with Data

  Sayamindu Dasgupta, and Mitchel Resnick (2014)
  ACM Inroads, 5(4)

• Surveys, collaborative art and virtual currencies: Children programming with online data

  Sayamindu Dasgupta (2013)
  International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 1(3–4)

• From Surveys to Collaborative Art: Enabling Children to Program with Online Data

  Sayamindu Dasgupta (2013)
  Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, (IDC '13)

• Rope Revolution: Tangible and Gestural Rope Interface for Collaborative Play

  Lining Yao, Sayamindu Dasgupta, Nadia Cheng, Jason Spingarn-Koff, Ostap Rudakevych, and Hiroshi Ishii (2011)
  Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, (ACE '11)