Portrait of Samantha Speer
PhD Student
Home Department: RI
Office: 4221 Newell-Simon Hall
Advisors: Melisa Orta Martinez and Illah Nourbakhsh
Lab: SHRED Lab (Social Haptics Robotics and Education Laboratory)
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Displaying 5 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
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
Grounding Abstract Concepts Through Robotic Manipulatives
Samantha Speer
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-20-18, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2020