Portrait of Michael J. Tasota
MSR Student / Senior Systems / Software Engineer
Home Department: RI
Office: LL127 Collaborative Innovation Center
Phone: (412) 268-3818
Lab: CREATE Lab
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Displaying 8 Publications

2021
MindfulNest: Strengthening Emotion Regulation with Tangible User Interfaces
Samantha Speer, Emily Hamner, Michael Tasota, Lauren Zito, and Sarah K. Byrne-Houser
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '21), pp. 103 - 111, October, 2021
Design of a Multimodal System for Social Emotional Learning in Early Childhood Classrooms
Michael Tasota
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-21-50, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2021
Formative Evaluation of MindfulNest: A Tangible User Interface for Emotion Regulation
Samantha Speer, Emily Hamner, Michael Tasota, Sarah K. Byrne-Houser, and Lauren Zito
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-21-19, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2021
Leveraging tangible interfaces in primary school math: Pilot testing of the Owlet math program
Lauren Zito, Jennifer L. Cross, Bambi Brewer, Samantha Speer, Michael Tasota, Emily Hamner, Molly Johnson, Tom Lauwers, and Illah Nourbakhsh
Journal Article, International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction: Special Issue on Frontiers of Interaction Design and Children (IDC '20), Vol. 27, March, 2021
2020
Pilot Results of a Digital Manipulative for Elementary Mathematics
Jennifer Cross, Bambi Brewer, Emily Hamner, Lauren Zito, Samantha Speer, and Michael Tasota
Conference Paper, Proceedings of American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (AERA '20), December, 2020
Smell Pittsburgh: Engaging Community Citizen Science for Air Quality
Yen-Chia Hsu, Jennifer Cross, Paul Dille, Michael Tasota, Beatrice Dias, Randy Sargent, Ting-Hao (Kenneth) Huang, and Illah Nourbakhsh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TIIS), Vol. 10, No. 4, November, 2020
2019
Smell Pittsburgh: Community-Empowered Mobile Smell Reporting System
Yen-Chia Hsu, Jennifer L. Cross, Paul Dille, Michael Tasota, Beatrice Dias, Randy Sargent, Ting-Hao Huang, and Illah R. Nourbakhsh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '19), pp. 65 - 79, March, 2019
2017
Development and results from user testing of a novel robotics kit supporting systems engineering for elementary-aged students
Emily Hamner, Lauren Zito, Jennifer Cross, Michael Tasota, Paul Dille, Stephen Fulton, Molly Johnson, Illah Nourbakhsh, and Joshua Schapiro
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE '17), October, 2017