RESEARCH AS EMPOWERMENT
RESEARCH. PLAY. Educate. REPEAT.
Hi, I’m Nicola.
Doctoral Student in Instructional Technology and Media,
Teachers College, Columbia University.
Mix Methods Researcher | Social & Psychological Aspects of Human-Computer and Robot Interaction | Interdisciplinary Focus on Learning Science and Media Studies
Featured work
Current Work
Media Literacy Initiative
This project studies youth attitudes regarding misinformation and their responses to media literacy campaigns on a youth-oriented social media platform, TikTok.
#YouthCulture #ContentAnalysis
Mere Belief of Social Interaction
This study examines how people’s beliefs - interacting with human beings vs. computer agents - influence their learnings and behaviors when interacting with anthropomorphic robots.
#HRI #Psychology #Experiment
Make with Data
This project empowers high school students to construct personally-meaningful projects to solve local community problems using open-source data in a collaborative team.
#Identity #DataScience #Interview
LAMBOOZLED!
Grounded in current research on news literacy, this research project developed a game for young people’s media literacy skills, with a focus on identifying fake news and misinformation.
#MediaLiteracy #UsabilityTesting