Welcome to the Laboratory for Interactive Learning Technologies! We combine cognitive science, human-computer interaction, and social science approaches to the design and study of how people interact with each other through technology. We are particularly known for studies of how technology design influences social processes of learning in settings ranging from small group dialogue to online communities. Related areas of research are also pursued according to the interests of members.
Network visualization community structures in the Tapped In network of educational professionals, from our Traces project. The visualization was created using Gephi with the Open Ord layout (Martin, Brown, Klavans & Boyack (2011), “OpenOrd: An Open-Source Toolbox for Large Graph Layout,” SPIE Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA). The communities were discovered by a modularity algorithm due to Blondel, Guillaume, Lambiotte, & Lefebvre (2008), Fast unfolding of communities in large networks, in Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2008 (10), P1000.