Doctoral  Dissertations

• ​Cross, J. (2017). Creative Robotic Systems for Talent-Based Learning (Doctoral dissertation). Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-17-30. Pittsburgh, PA: The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
• Lauwers, T. (2010). Aligning Capabilities of Interactive Educational Tools to Learner Goals (Doctoral dissertation). Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-10-09. Pittsburgh, PA: The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
• ​Bernstein, D.L. (2010). Developing technological fluency through creative robotics (Doctoral dissertation). Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh.

Book  Chapters  &  Technical  Reports

• Gomez, K., Bernstein, D., Zywica, J., & Hamner, E. (2012). Building Technical Knowledge and Engagement in Robotics: An Examination of two Out-of-School Programs. B. Barker, G. Nugent, N. Grandgenett, & V. Adamchuk (Eds.), Robots in K-12 Education: A New Technology for Learning (pp. 222-244). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.​
• ​Hamner, E., Lauwers, T., Bernstein, D., Stubbs, K., Crowley, K., & Nourbakhsh, I. (2008, May). Robot Diaries Interim Project Report: Development of a Technology Program for Middle School Girls. Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-08-25. Pittsburgh, PA: The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.

Conference  papers,   presentations, and workshops

2017

• Cross, J. L., Hamner, E., Zito, L., & Nourbakhsh, I. (2017). Student Outcomes from the Evaluation of a Transdisciplinary Middle School Robotics Program. In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Indianapolis, IN.  

2016

• Cross, J., Hamner, E., Zito, L., & Nourbakhsh, I. (2016). Engineering and Computational Thinking Talent in Middle School Students: a Framework for Defining and Recognizing Student Affinities. In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Erie, PA.

• Hamner, E., Zito, L., Cross, J., Slezak, B., Mellon, S., Harapko, H., & Welter, M. (2016). Utilizing Engineering to Teach Non-Technical Disciplines : Case Studies of Robotics within Middle School English and Health Classes. In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Erie, PA.
• Cross, J., Hamner, E., Zito, L., Nourbakhsh, I., & Bernstein, D. (2016). Development of an Assessment for Measuring Middle School Student Attitudes towards Robotics Activities. In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Erie, PA.
• Hamner, E., Cross, J., Zito, L., Bernstein, D., & Mutch-Jones, K. (2016). Training Teachers to Integrate Engineering into Non- Technical Middle School Curriculum. In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Erie, PA.
• Bernstein, D., Mutch-Jones, K., Cassidy, M., Hamner, E., & Cross, J. (2016). Robots and Romeo and Juliet: Studying Teacher Integration of Robotics into Middle School Curricula. In 2016 International Conference of the American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC.

2015

• Cross, J. L., Hamner, E., Bartley, C., & Nourbakhsh, I. (2015). Arts & Bots: Application and Outcomes of a Secondary School Robotics Program. In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), El Paso, TX.

2014

• Cross, J., & Hamner, E. (2014). Identifying and Cultivating Diverse STEM Talent through Creative Robotics. In Proceedings in the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Indianapolis, IN.

2013

• Cross, J., Bartley, C., Hamner, E., & Nourbakhsh, I. (2013). A Visual Robot-Programming Environment for Multidisciplinary Education. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Conference of Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp. 445-452), Karlsruhe, Germany.
• Hamner, E., & Cross, J. (2013, March). Arts & Bots: Techniques for distributing a STEAM robotics program through K-12 classrooms. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC), Princeton, NJ.

2010

• Hamner, E., Lauwers, T., & Bernstein, D. (2010, March).  The debugging task: Evaluating a robotics design workshop. In Proceedings of the 2010 AAAI Spring Symposium: Educational Robotics and Beyond, Stanford, CA.

2008

• Hamner, E., Lauwers, T., Bernstein, D., Nourbakhsh, I. R., & DiSalvo, C. F. (2008, March). Robot Diaries: Broadening Participation in the Computer Science Pipeline through Social Technical Exploration. In Proceedings of the 2008 AAAI Spring Symposium: Using AI to Motivate Greater Participation in Computer Science, Stanford, CA.

2007

• Nourbakhsh, I. R., DiSalvo, C. F., Hamner, E., Lauwers, T., & Bernstein, D. (2007). Robot Diaries: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Design and Evaluate Educational Robotics. In Proceedings of the 2007 AAAI Spring Symposium: Multidisciplinary Collaboration for Socially Assistive Robotics, Stanford, CA.