Erin Walker

Associate Professor, School of Computing and Information

Research Scientist, Learning Research & Development Center

Research Interests

Intelligent tutoring systems, computer-supported collaboration, tangible and embodied learning environments, human-robot interaction, technology for the developing world, personalized learning environments, learning technologies, human-computer interaction

Recent Publications

Steele, C., Lobczowski, N., Davison, T., Yu, M., Diamond, M., Kovashka, A., Litman, D., Nokes-Malach, T., & Walker, E. (2022). It takes two: Examining the effects of collaborative teaching of a robot learner. In: Rodrigo, M.M., Matsuda, N., Cristea, A.I., Dimitrova, V. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners’ and Doctoral Consortium. AIED 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13356. Springer, Cham.

Asano, Y., Litman, D., Mingzhi Yu, Lobczowski, N., Nokes-Malach, T., Kovashka, A., & Walker, E. (2022). Comparison of Lexical Alignment with a Teachable Robot in Human-Robot and Human-Human-Robot Interactions. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Edinburgh, UK. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Sanabria, A. A., Restrepo, M. A., Walker, E., & Glenburg, A. (2022). A reading comprehension intervention for dual language learners with weak language and reading skills. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.  

Gómez, L.E., Restrepo, M.A., Glenberg, A.M., & Walker, E. (2021). Enhancing question-asking during shared reading in immigrant Latino families. Journal of Latinos and Education.

Buddemeyer, A., Walker, E., & Alikhani, M. (2021). Words of wisdom: representational harms in learning from AI communication. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. LearnTec4EDI: Designing Learning Technologies for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Workshop, September 20th–24, 2021.

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