Jennifer Cross

Roboticist. Educator. Designer.

Publications

Journal Publications

  1. [J4]

    Ziyi Zhang, Sara Willner-Giwerc, Jivko Sinapov, Jennifer L. Cross and Chris Rogers. 2022. An Interactive Robot Platform for Introducing Reinforcement Learning to K-12 Students. Robotics in Education 2021, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 1359. Springer.

  2. [J3]

    Lauren Zito, Jennifer L. Cross, Bambi Brewer, Samantha Speer, Michael Tasota, Emily Hamner, Molly Johnson, Tom Lauwers and Illah Nourbakhsh. 2021. Leveraging tangible interfaces in primary school math: Pilot testing of the Owlet math program. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction 27. Elsevier.

  3. [J2]

    Yen-Chia Hsu, Jennifer L. Cross, Paul Dille, Michael Tasota, Beatrice Dias, Randy Sargent, Ting-Hao Huang and Illah Nourbakhsh. 2020. Smell Pittsburgh: Engaging Community Citizen Science for Air Quality. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems 10(4). ACM.

  4. [J1]

    John Mathews, Stanley J. Briczinski, Akshay Malhotra and Jennifer L. Cross. 2010. Extensive Meteoroid Fragmentation in V/UHF Radar Meteor Observations at Arecibo Observatory. Geophysical Research Letters 37(4). American Geophysical Union.

Conference Publications

  1. [C20]

    Tanushree Burman, Milan Dahal, Geling Xu, Chris Rogers, Jennifer L. Cross and Jivko Sinapov. 2025. Smart Motor: A Low-Cost Hardware And Software Toolkit For Introducing Supervised Machine Learning To Elementary School Students. EAAI'25: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Philadelphia, PA. AAAI.

  2. [C19]

    Debra Bernstein, Michael Cassidy, Karen Mutch-Jones and Jennifer L. Cross. 2023. Using robotics to enhance middle school science learning: Examining teachers' design goals for integrated lessons. In 2023 American Education Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting. AERA.

  3. [C18]

    Geling Xu, Daniel Zabner, Jennifer L. Cross, Dustin Nadler, Steven Coxon and Karen Englekenjohn. 2023. Conducting the Pilot Study of Integrating AI: An Experience Integrating Machine Learning into Upper Elementary Robotics Learning (Work in Progress). In 2023 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Baltimore, Maryland. American Society for Engineering Education.

  4. [C17]

    Debra Bernstein, Michael Cassidy, Karen Mutch-Jones and Jennifer L. Cross. 2022. Robots in Science: How middle school science teachers design integrated robotics units for their science classes. In 2022 International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS), 1968-1969. International Society of the Learning Sciences.

  5. [C16]

    Jennifer L. Cross, Bambi Brewer, Emily Hamner, Lauren Zito, Samantha Speer and Michael Tasota. 2020. Pilot Results of a Digital Manipulative for Elementary Mathematics. In 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Francisco, CA. AERA.

  6. [C15]

    Yen-Chia Hsu, Jennifer L. Cross, Paul Dille, Michael Tasota, Beatrice Dias, Randy Sargent, Ting-Hao Huang and Illah Nourbakhsh. 2019. Smell Pittsburgh: Community-Empowered Mobile Smell Reporting System. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '19), Marina del Ray, CA. ACM. Honorable Mention Award

  7. [C14]

    Yen-Chia Hsu, Jennifer L. Cross, Paul Dille, Illah Nourbakhsh, Leann Leiter and Ryan Grode. 2018. Visualization Tool for Environmental Sensing and Public Health Data. Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '18 Companion), Hong Kong. ACM.

  8. [C13]

    Yen-Chia Hsu, Paul Dille, Jennifer L. Cross, Beatrice Dias, Randy Sargent and Illah Nourbakhsh. 2017. Community-Empowered Air Quality Monitoring System. Proceedings of 2017 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver, Colorado. ACM. Honorable Mention Award

  9. [C12]

    Emily Hamner, Lauren Zito, Jennifer L. Cross, Michael Tasota, Paul Dille, Stephen Fulton, Molly Johnson, Illah Nourbakhsh and Joshua Schapiro. 2017. Development and Results from User Testing of a Novel Robotics Kit Supporting Systems Engineering for Elementary-Aged Students. In 2017 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Indianapolis, Indiana. IEEE.

  10. [C11]

    Jennifer L. Cross, Emily Hamner, Lauren Zito and Illah Nourbakhsh. 2017. Student Outcomes from the Evaluation of a Transdisciplinary Middle School Robotics Program. In 2017 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Indianapolis, Indiana. IEEE.

  11. [C10]

    Debra Bernstein, Karen Mutch-Jones, Emily Hamner and Jennifer L. Cross. 2016. Robots and Romeo and Juliet: Studying Teacher Integration of Robotics into Middle School Curricula. In 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Washington, DC. AERA.

  12. [C9]

    Emily Hamner, Jennifer L. Cross, Lauren Zito, Debra Bernstein and Karen Mutch-Jones. 2016. Training Teachers to Integrate Engineering into Non-Technical Middle School Curriculum. In 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Erie, Pennsylvania. IEEE.

  13. [C8]

    Emily Hamner, Lauren Zito, Jennifer L. Cross, Brett Slezak, Sue Mellon, Heather Harapko and Michelle Welter. 2016. Utilizing Engineering to Teach Non-Technical Disciplines: Case Studies of Robotics within Middle School English and Health Classes. In 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Erie, Pennsylvania. IEEE.

  14. [C7]

    Jennifer L. Cross, Emily Hamner, Lauren Zito and Illah Nourbakhsh. 2016. Engineering and Computational Thinking Talent in Middle School Students: a Framework for Defining and Recognizing Student Affinities. In 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Erie, Pennsylvania. IEEE.

  15. [C6]

    Jennifer L. Cross, Emily Hamner, Lauren Zito, Illah Nourbakhsh and Debra Bernstein. 2016. Development of an Assessment for Measuring Middle School Student Attitudes towards Robotics Activities. In 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Erie, Pennsylvania. IEEE.

  16. [C5]

    Jennifer L. Cross, Emily Hamner, Christopher Bartley and Illah Nourbakhsh. 2015. Arts & Bots: Application and Outcomes of a Secondary School Robotics Program. In 2015 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), El Paso, Texas. IEEE.

  17. [C4]

    Jennifer L. Cross and Emily Hamner. 2014. Identifying and Cultivating Diverse STEM Talent through Creative Robotics. In 2014 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana. American Society for Engineering Education.

  18. [C3]

    Emily Hamner and Jennifer L. Cross. 2013. Arts & Bots: Techniques for distributing a STEAM robotics program through K-12 classrooms. In 2013 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC), Princeton, NJ. IEEE. Best Paper Award

  19. [C2]

    Jennifer L. Cross, Christopher Bartley, Emily Hamner and Illah Nourbakhsh. 2013. A Visual Robot-Programming Environment for Multidisciplinary Education. In 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany. IEEE.

  20. [C1]

    H. Benjamin Brown, Illah Nourbakhsh, Christopher Bartley, Jennifer L. Cross, Paul Dille, Joshua Schapiro and Alex Styler. 2012. ChargeCar Community Conversions: Practical, Electric Commuter Vehicles Now!. In 2012 IEEE International Electric Vehicle Conference (IEVC), Greenville, SC. IEEE.

Dissertation

  1. [T1]

    Jennifer L. Cross. 2017. Creative Robotic Systems for Talent-Based Learning. Doctoral Dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University. Carnegie Mellon University.