The Learning, Epistemology, and Design Lab (LED Lab) at the University of Washington’s Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering designs and studies ways for people to develop fluency and critical agency in increasingly computational and data-rich environments. We focus on learning experiences that are creative, playful, and situated in the learners’ communities.
Our work consists of developing new experiences and technologies for learning, as well as studying existing communities, experiences, and practices that support learning and knowledge production.
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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)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)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)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)