Dishita Turakhia
ABSTRACT
In the last decade, HCI researchers have designed and engineered several systems to lower the entry barrier for beginners and support novices in learning hands-on creative skills, such as motor skills, fabrication, circuit prototyping, and design.
In my research , I contribute to this body of work by designing tools that enable learning by oneself, also known as autodidactism. My research lies at the intersection of system design, learning sciences, and technologies that support physical skill-learning. Through my research projects, I propose to re-imagine the design of systems for skill-learning through the lens of learner-centric theories and frameworks.
I present three sets of research projects - (1) adaptive learning of motor skills, (2) game-based learning for fabrication skills, and (3) reflection-based learning of maker skills. Through these projects, I demonstrate how we can leverage existing theories, frameworks, and approaches from the learning sciences to design autodidactic systems for skill- learning.
- Michael Tan. 2019. When makerspaces meet school: Negotiating tensions between instruction and construction. Journal of Science Education and Technology 28, 2 (2019), 75–89. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-018-9749-xGoogle Scholar
Cross Ref
- Dishita G Turakhia, Harrison Mitchell Allen, Kayla DesPortes, and Stefanie Mueller. 2021. FabO: Integrating Fabrication with a Player’s Gameplay in Existing Digital Games. In Creativity and Cognition. 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1145/3450741.3465239Google ScholarDigital Library
- Dishita G Turakhia, Paulo Blikstein, Nathan R Holbert, Marcelo Worsley, Jennifer Jacobs, Fraser Anderson, Jun Gong, Kayla DesPortes, and Stefanie Mueller. 2022. Reimagining Systems for Learning Hands-on Creative and Maker Skills. In Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (New Orleans, LA, USA) (CHI EA ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 94, 7 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3503732Google ScholarDigital Library
- Dishita G Turakhia, Peiling Jiang, Brent Liu, Mackenzie Leake, and Stefanie Mueller. 2022. The Reflective Maker: Using Reflection to Support Skill-learning in Makerspaces. In The Adjunct Publication of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’22 Adjunct), October 29-November 2, 2022, Bend, OR, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3526114.3558716Google ScholarDigital Library
- Dishita G Turakhia, Stefanie Mueller, and Kayla DesPortes. 2022. Identifying Game Mechanics for Integrating Fabrication Activities within Existing Digital Games. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (New Orleans, LA, USA) (CHI ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 87, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517721Google ScholarDigital Library
- Dishita G Turakhia, Yini Qi, Lotta-Gili Blumberg, Andrew Wong, and Stefanie Mueller. 2021. Can Physical Tools that Adapt their Shape based on a Learner’s Performance Help in Motor Skill Training?. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3430524.3440636Google ScholarDigital Library
- Dishita G Turakhia, Andrew Wong, Yini Qi, Lotta-Gili Blumberg, and Yoonji Kim. 2021. Designing Adaptive Tools for Motor Skill Training. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 137–139. https://doi.org/10.1145/3474349.3480205Google ScholarDigital Library
- Dishita G Turakhia, Andrew Wong, Yini Qi, Lotta-Gili Blumberg, Yoonji Kim, and Stefanie Mueller. 2021. Adapt2Learn: A Toolkit for Configuring the Learning Algorithm for Adaptive Physical Tools for Motor-Skill Learning. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021. 1301–1312. https://doi.org/10.1145/3461778.3462128Google ScholarDigital Library
- Shirin Vossoughi, Paula K Hooper, and Meg Escudé. 2016. Making through the lens of culture and power: Toward transformative visions for educational equity. Harvard Educational Review 86, 2 (2016), 206–232. https://doi.org/10.17763/0017-8055.86.2.206Google ScholarCross Ref
Index Terms
- Designing Tools for Autodidactic Learning of Skills
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