Emotions, Technology, and Design

Sharon Tettegah is a Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Former Program Chair of Digital Environments for Learning, Teaching and Agency in the College of Education, at the University of Illinois, at Urbana Champaign. She has an appointment in the Cognitive Neuroscience in Bio-Intelligence at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. In addition, she is a Research Scientist and affiliate at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Her research centers on the intersection of STEM learning, Emotions, Equity and Social justice. She was also a Program Director in 2010-2012 at the National Science Foundation where she managed five programs in the Directorates of Education and Human Resources, Computer and Information Science and Engineering and including a NSF cross-cutting program on Science, Engineering, Education for Sustainability (SEES). She is also the Series Editor for Emotions and Technology with Elsevier, Academic Psychology Division. Safiya Umoja Noble is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Studies in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA where she conducts research in socio-cultural informatics; including feminist, historical and political-economic perspectives on computing platforms and software in the public interest. Her research is at the intersection of culture and technology in the design and use of applications on the Internet.

• I. Experiments and Theories in Emotions, Technology and Design1. Emotional screen. Color and moving images in digital media2. Safe and Sound: Using Audio to Communicate Comfort, Safety, and Familiarity in Digital Media​3. Emoticons in business communication: is the :) worth it?4. Empathetic technology5. Spoken dialogue agent applications using emotional expressions6. Engaging Learners through Rational Design of Multisensory Effects7. Designing interaction strategies for companions interacting with childrenII. Critical Theoretical Engagements with Emotions, Technology and Design8. The Emulation of Emotions in Artificial Intelligence: Another Step into Anthropomorphism9. Through Google Colored Glass(es): Design, Emotion, Class and Wearables as Commodity and Control10. Designing Emotions: Deliver the Nets, Eradicate Malaria in Africa, and Feel Good?11. Police Body Cameras: Emotional Mediation and the Economies of Visuality