Emotions, Technology, Design, and Learning

Dr. Sharon Tettegah is Director for the Center for Black Studies Research at UC Santa Barbara. Prior to joining UCSB, she was the Program Chair of Digital Environments for Learning, Teaching and Agency in the College of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. She has held an appointment in Cognitive Neuroscience in Bio-Intelligence at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Her research centers on the intersection of STEM leaning, emotions, equity, and social justice. Dr. Tettegah has authored several books, including series volumes for Elsevier’s Emotions and Technology book series. Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the TUM School of Education, Department of Empirical Educational Research (Since 10/2012). Research interests: Communication between teachers and parents, communication training of (becoming) teachers, use and development of video cases in teacher education, negative knowledge and learning from errors at work, competence development in work processes.

• Series IntroductionVolume Introduction1: Emoticons and Online Learning: A Review of the Literature2: Emotional Design in Digital Media for Learning3: Measuring Emotions: A Survey of Cutting-Edge Methodologies Used in Advanced Agent-Based Learning Environment Research4: A Real-Time Speech Emotion Recognition System and Its Application in Online Learning5: Animated Pedagogical Agents and Emotion6: Virtual Avatars as Emotional Facilitators in Online Learning Environments7: Promoting Engaged Learning with Pedagogical Agents8: Emotional Pedagogical Agents with Temperament9: Emotions in Adaptive Computer Technologies to Promote Deeper Learning10: Robots, Emotions, and Learning11: Future Research in Emotion, Design, Learning, and Technology