Gnoli, A., Perritano, A., Guerra, P., Lopez Silva, B., Brown, J., & Moher, T. (2014). Back to the Future: Embodied Classroom Simulations of Animal Foraging. 8th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (Munich, Germany, Feb. 16-19, 2014). TEI 2014. ACM, New York, NY. To appear.
Dasgupta, C. & Moher, T. (2014). Promoting Productive Disciplinary Engagement in Instrumented Investigations. Proceedings Annual International Conference of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (Pittsburg, PA, March 30-April 2, 2014). To appear.
Fong, C., Cober, R., Messina, R., Moher, T., Murray, J., Peebles, B., & Slotta, J. (2014). Common Knowledge: Design, Scripting, and Orchestration of Knowledge Building Discourse in Elementary Science. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (Philadelphia, PA, April 3-7, 2014). AERA 2014. To appear.
Moher, T. (2014). Instrumenting Classrooms for Collaborative Inquiry. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (Philadelphia, PA, April 3-7, 2014). AERA 2014. To appear.
Silva, A., Dasgupta, C., Shelley, T., Lopez Silva, B., Lyons, L., & Moher, T. Shaping the Construction of Learner Questions. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (Philadelphia, PA, April 3-7, 2014). AERA 2014. To appear.
Shelley, T., Dasgupta, C., Moher, T., & Lyons, L. Supporting learners' construction of understandings of animal behaviors from large image sets. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (Philadelphia, PA, April 3-7, 2014). AERA 2014. To appear.
Cober, R., McCann, C., Moher, T., & Slotta, J. (2013). Aggregating Students' Observations in Support of Community Knowledge and Discourse. CSCL 2013. Proceeding International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (Madison, WI, June 15-19, 2013). ACM, New York, NY, Vol. 1, 121-128.
Lyons, L., López Silva, B., Moher, T., Jimenez Pazmino, P., & Slattery, B. (2013). Feel the burn: exploring design parameters for effortful interaction for educational games. Proceedings of the 12th international Conference on Interaction Design and Children. IDC 2013. ACM, New York, NY, 400-403.
Moher, T., & Lopez Silva, B. (2013). Coordinating Curricular, Phenomenal, and Activity Narratives in WallCology. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (San Francisco, CA, April 27-May 1, 2013). AERA 2013.
Cober, R., McCann, C., Moher, T., & Slotta, J. (2013). Structured Multivocal Representations in Collaborative Inquiry: Scaffolding the Construction of Relationship Networks From Binary Observations. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (San Francisco, CA, April 27-May 1, 2013). AERA 2013.
Gnoli, A., & Moher, T. (2013). Providing Teachers With Real-Time Feedback on the Fidelity of Science Practices in WallCology. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (San Francisco, CA, April 27-May 1, 2013). AERA 2013.
Guerra, P., Lopez Silva, B., Gnoli, A., & Moher, T. (2013). Proximity and Engaged Participation in WallCology. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (San Francisco, CA, April 27-May 1, 2013). AERA 2013.
Dasgupta, C., & Moher, T. (2013). Investigating the Influence of Antecedent Models on Learning Science and Engineering Skills. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (San Francisco, CA, April 27-May 1, 2013). AERA 2013.
Moher, T., Brown, J., Reiser, B., Silva, A., SHelley, T., & Lyons, L. (2013). The Urban Game Park: A Pilot Study of Student Investigations of Animal Behavior Using Motion-Detecting Cameras. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (San Francisco, CA, April 27-May 1, 2013). AERA 2013.
Cober, R., McCann, C., Moher, T., and Slotta, J. (2013). Aggregate Representations to Support Scientific Inquiry: A Case Study With Embedded Phenomena. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (San Francisco, CA, April 27-May 1, 2013). AERA 2013.
Smørdal, O., Slotta, J., Krange, I., Moher, T., Novellis, F., Gnoli, A., Lopez Silva, B., Lui, M., Jornet, A. & Jahreie. (2012). Hybrid Spaces for Science Education. Proceedings International Conference of the Learning Sciences (Sydney, Australia, July 2-6, 2012), Vol 2, 9-16.
Cober, R., Fong, C., Gnoli, A., Lopez Silva, B., Lui, M., Madeira, C., McCann, C., Moher, T., SLotta, J., and Tissenbaum, M. (2012). Embedded Phenomena for Knowledge Communities: Supporting complex practices and interactions within a community of inquiry in the elementary science classroom. Proceedings International Conference of the Learning Sciences (Sydney, Australia, July 2-6, 2012), Vol 2, 64-71.
Slotta., J. & Moher, T. (2012). Mashing Up Simulations and Knowledge Construction Technologies to Support Complex Instructional Designs. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (Vancouver, B.C., Canada, April 13-17, 2012). AERA 2012.
Madeira, C., Gnoli, A., Messina, R., Moher, T., and Slotta, J. (2012). Fostering an “Adaptive Nature” for Teacher Practice: Technology Supports in a Codesign Community. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (Vancouver, B.C., Canada, April 13-17, 2012). AERA 2012.
Lyons, L., Slattery, B., Jimenez Pazmino, P., López Silva, B., & Moher, T. (2012). Don't forget about the sweat: effortful embodied interaction in support of learning. TEI 2012. ACM, New York, NY. 77-84.
Novellis, F. & Moher, T. (2011). How real is 'real enough'?: designing artifacts and procedures for embodied simulations of science practices. Proceedings of the 10th international Conference on Interaction Design and Children (Ann Arbor, MI, June 20 - 23, 2011). IDC '11. ACM, New York, NY, 90-98.
Moher, T., Slotta, J., & Gnoli, A. (2011). Embedded phenomena: Rethinking technology support for complex collaborative activity structures in classrooms. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, April 8 - 12, 2011). AERA 2011.
Jaeger, A., Wiley, J., Moher, T., López Silva, B., & Novellis, F. Embedded Simulations Support Learning in Geoscience. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, April 8 - 12, 2011). AERA 2011.
Moher, T., Quintana, C., and Price, S. (Eds.): Interaction Design and Children, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2011, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, June 20-23, 2011. ACM 2011, ISBN 978-1-4503-0751-2.
Novellis, F.& Moher, T. (2011). AquaRoom: A Pilot Study of a Classroom-Based Investigation of Subterranean Water Flow. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, April 8 - 12, 2011). AERA 2011.
Moher, T., Wiley, J., Jaeger, A., Lopez Silva, B., Novellis, F., and Kilb, D. (2010). Spatial and Temporal Embedding for Science Inquiry: An Empirical Study of Student Learning. In Proceedings International Conference of the Learning Sciences. June 2010, Chicago, IL, Vol. 1, 826-833.
Kilb, D. L., Moher, T., Wiley, J. (2010). It’s our fault: Immersing young learners in authentic practices of seismology. In Proceedings American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #ED51A-0520.
Moher, T. (2009). Putting interference to work in the design of a whole-class learning activity. In Proceedings of the 8th international Conference on Interaction Design and Children (Como, Italy, June 03 - 05, 2009). IDC '09. ACM, New York, NY, 115-122.
Antle, A., Kynigos, C., Lyons, L., Marshall, P., Moher, T., and Roussou, M. (2009). Manifesting Embodiment: Designers’ Variations on a Theme. In Community Events Proceedings Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Practices (Rhodes, Greece, June 08 - 13, 2009). CSCL ’09. ISLS, 15-17.
Moher, T., López Silva, B., Daly, S., and Bernasconi, M. (2009). Response Characteristics of Middle School Learners’ Critiques of Nanoscale Representations. In Proceedings 2009 Annual Conference of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching (Garden Grove, CA, April 17 - 21, 2009). NARST 2009. 13 pp (CD Proceedings).
Jaeger, A., Moher, T., Wiley, J., Malcolm, P., López Silva, B., Gnoli, A., and Brown, J. (2009). WallCology: Using Embedded Phenomena to Motivate Learning About Dynamic Ecosystems. Symposium presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (San Diego, CA, April 13 - 17, 2009). AERA 2009.
López Silva, B., Bernasconi, M., Abuhabsah, A., and Moher, T. (2009). Introducing Nanoscale Phenomena to Middle School Learners Using a DNA Design Activity. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (San Diego, CA, April 13 - 17, 2009). AERA 2009.
Moher, T. (2008). Learning and participation in a persistent whole-classroom seismology simulation. In Proceedings International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Vol. 2 (Utrech, Netherlands, June 23 - 28, 2008). ICLS 2008. ISLS, 82-90.
Pellegrino, J., Krajcik, J., Stevens, S., Swarat, S., Shin, N., Delgado, C., Moher, T., Shipley, E., Szeto, A., Song, M., Cahill, C., Bodner, G., Daly, S., Drane, D., Geier, S., Hagedorn, E.,
Lauhon, L., Light, G., López Silva, B., Quintana, C., Park, E., Unterman, N., and Wischow, E. (2008). Using Construct-Centered Design to Align Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
Development in Emerging Science. In Proceedings International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Vol. 3 (Utrech, Netherlands, June 23 - 28. 2008). ICLS 2008. ISLS, 82-90.
Malcolm, P., Moher, T., Bhatt, D., Uphoff, B., and López Silva, B. (2008). Embodying scientific concepts in the physical space of the classroom. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on interaction Design and Children (Chicago, Illinois, June 11 - 13, 2008). IDC '08. ACM, New York, NY, 234-241.
Moher, T., Uphoff, B., Bhatt, D., López Silva, B., and Malcolm, P. (2008). WallCology: designing interaction affordances for learner engagement in authentic science inquiry. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 163-172.
López Silva, B., Anggoro, F., Bernasconi, M., and Moher, T. (2008). How to 'Catch' a Virus: Representational Affordances in a Middle-School Introduction to Nanoscale Self-Assembly. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (New York, NY, March 24 - 28, 2008). AERA 2008.
Uphoff, B., Bhatt, D., López Silva, B., Frack, Malcolm, P., Cain, V., and Moher, T. (2008). WallCology: Studying Ecology using a Distributed, Persistent Virtual Ecosystem in the Classroom. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (New York, NY, March 24 - 28, 2008). AERA 2008.
Shipley, E., Moher, T., and López Silva, B. (2008). Instructional Framing for Nanoscale Self-Assembly Design in Middle School: A Pilot Study. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (New York, NY, March 24 - 28, 2008). AERA 2008.
Moher, T. and Wiley, J. (2007). Classroom Space, Classroom Time, and the Representation of Dynamic Phenomena. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (April 2007, Chicago, IL).
Bell, J. and Moher, T. (2007) A Learning Progression to Effectively Implement Virtual Reality as an Educational Tool for K-12 Nanoscience Education. Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (June 2007, Honolulu, HI).
Thompson, M. and Moher, T. (2006). HelioRoom: Problem-solving in a whole class visual simulation. Proceedings International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2006) (June 2006, Bloomington, IN), 1000-1001.
Moher, T. (2006). Embedded Phenomena: Supporting Science Learning with Classroom-sized Distributed Simulations. Proceedings ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2006) (April 2006, Montreal, Canada), 691-700. (Best Paper award).
Barron, M., Moher, T., and Maharry, J. (2006). RoomBugs: Simulating Insect Infestations in Elementary Classrooms using Commodity Hardware. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2006) Extended Abstracts (April 2006, Montreal, Canada), 315-320.
Moher, T., Hussain, S., Barron, M., and Thompson, M. (2006). RoomQuake: Learning, Self-Concept, and Growth of a Community of Practice in a Persistent Whole-Classroom Simulation. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (April 2006, San Francisco, CA).
Moher, T., Rogers, Y., and Quintana, C. (2006). Co-Present Distributed Simulations of Science Phenomena for K-8 Learners: A Technology Designers' Round-Robin Symposium. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (April 2006, San Francisco, CA).
Moher, T., Hussain, S., Halter, T., and Kilb, D. (2005). Embedding Dynamic Phenomena within the Physical Space of an Elementary School Classroom. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2005) Extended Abstracts, 1665-1668.
Moher, T., Watson, B, Kim, J., Hindo, C., Gomez, L., Franssen, S., and . (2005). StoryGrid: A Tangible Interface for Student Expression. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2005) Extended Abstracts, 1669-1672.
Wiley, J., Sanchez, C. & Moher, T. (2005). Research in Educational Technology. In J. M. Royer (Ed). The Cognitive Revolution and its effects on Educational Psychology. Information Age Publishing, 231-248.
Moher, T., Hussain, S., Halter, T., and Poliakon, E. (2004). Practicing Seismology in the Fifth-grade Clasroom: Technology in the Service of Developing a Community of Learners. ISTA Spectrum, Vol. 40 (Fall 2004), No. 2, 32-38.
Cho, Y., Park, K., Moher, T., and Johnson, A. (2004). Mediating Collaborative Design for Constructing Educational Virtual Reality Environments: A Case Study. Proceedings of Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering (CDVE 2004), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, September 19-22, 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3190, Oct 2004, Springer-Verlag, 30-37.
Cho,Y., Park, K., Moher, T., Johnson, A., Chang, J., Whang, M., Lim, J., Rhee, D., Park, K., and Park, H. (2004). CLOVES: A Virtual World Builder for Constructing Virtual Environments for Science Inquiry Learning. Proceedings of International Conference in Entertainment Computing (ICEC 2004), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, September 1-3, 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3166, Springer-Verlag, 241-247.
Moher, T. and Wiley, J. (2004). Technology Support for Learning Scientific Control as a Whole Class. Paper presented at the Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (April 2004, San Diego, CA).
Johnson, A., Moher, T., Cho, Y., Edelson, R., Russell, E. (2004). Learning Science Inquiry Skills in a Virtual Field. Computers and Graphics, Vol. 28, No. 3, June 2004, 409-416.
Watson, B., Kim, J., McEneany, T., Moher, T., Hindo, C., and Gomez, L. (2004). StorySpace: Technology Supporting Reflection, Expression and Discourse in Classroom Narrative. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 24(2), March/April 2004, 13-15.
Cho, Y., Moher, T., Johnson, A. (2003). Scaffolding Children's Scientific Data Collection in a Virtual Field. Proceedings of Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM 2003), Montreal, Canada, October 2003, 558-564.
Moher, T., Haas, D., Kim, J., and Johnson, A. (2003) Dancing with the Bees: Issues in the Design of Computer-Based Classroom Phenomenaria. Proceedings ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Educator's Program (San Diego, CA, July 2003), p.1.
Johnson, A., Moher, T., and Cho, Y. (2003). 'Field Work'. ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Educator's Program (San Diego, CA, July 2003), 1-5.
Moher, T., Ding, X., Wiley, J., Conmy, D., Hussain, S., Singh, P., and Srinivasan, V. (2003). Combining Handhelds with a Whole-Class Display to Support the Learning of Scientific Control. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (Ft. Lauderdale, FL, April 2003), 882-883.
Steiner, K. and Moher, T. (2002). Encouraging task-related dialog in 2D and 3D shared narrative workspaces. Proceedings ACM 4th International Conference on Collaborative Virtual Environments (Bonn, Germany, Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2002), 39-46.
Johnson, A., Moher T., Cho, Y., Edelson, D., Reiser, B., (2002). Collecting Data and Looking for Patterns in a Virtual Field. Proceedings of IEEE VR 2002, March 2002, Orlando, FL, 281-283.
Johnson, A., Moher, T. Cho, Y., Lin, Y., Haas, D., and Kim, J. (2002). Augmenting Elementary School Educational with VR. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 22(2), March/April 2002, 6-9.
Moher, T., Kim, J., and Haas, D. (2002). A Two-tiered Collaborative Design for Observational Science Activities in Simulated Environments. Proceedings of CSCL 2002 (Computer Support for Collaborative Learning), G. Stahl, Ed., Jan. 7-11, 2002, Boulder, CO, USA, 361-370.
Moher, T., Johnson, A., Cho, Y., Lin, Y. (2001). First Person Science Inquiry 'in the Field'. Proceedings of IPT/EGVE 2001, May 16-18, Stuttgart, Germany, 131-140.
Moher, T., Johnson, A., Cho, Y. (2001). First-Person Science Inquiry in Virtual Ambient Environments. Proceedings ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2001), Extended Abstracts, Mar 31 - Apr 5, 2001, Seattle, WA, 261-262.
Johnson, A., Moher, T., Ohlsson, S., Leigh, J. (2001). Exploring Multiple Representations In Elementary School Science Education. Proceedings of IEEE VR 2001, Mar 13-17, 2001, Yokohama, Japan, 201-208.
Ohlsson, S., Moher, T., Johnson, A. (2000). Deep Learning in Virtual Reality: How to Teach Children that the Earth is Round. Proceedings of the 22nd Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Aug. 13-15, 2000, Philadelphia, PA, 364-368.
Johnson, A., Moher, T., Leigh, J., Lin, Y. (2000). QuickWorlds: Teacher driven VR worlds in an Elementary School Curriculum. In the SIGGRAPH 2000 Educators Program, July 23-28, 2000, New Orleans, LA., Conference Abstracts and Applications 60-63.
Moher, T., Johnson, A., Cho, Y., Lin, Y. (2000). Observation-based Inquiry in a Virtual Ambient Environment. In the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of the Learning Sciences, June 14-17, 2000, Ann Arbor, MI, 238-245.
Johnson, A., Moher, T., Ohlsson, S., Gillingham, M. (1999). The Round Earth Project: Collaborative VR for Conceptual Learning. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 19(6). November / December, 1999, 60-69.
Roussos, M., Johnson, A., Moher, T., Leigh, J., Vasilakis, C., Barnes, C. (1999). Learning and Building Together in an Immersive Virtual World. Presence 8(3), June 1999, 247-263 (and the cover).
Johnson, A., Moher, T., Ohlsson, S. (1999). The Round Earth Project - Collaborative VR for Elementary School Kids. SIGGRAPH 99 Conference Abstracts and Applications. Los Angeles, CA, Aug 8-13, 1999, pp 90-93.
Moher, T., Johnson, A., Ohlsson, S., Gillingham, M. (1999). Bridging Strategies for VR-Based Learning. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '99). Pittsburgh, PA, May 15-20, 1999, 536-543.
Johnson, A., Moher, T., Ohlsson, S., Gillingham, M. (1999). The Round Earth Project: Deep Learning in a Collaborative Virtual World. IEEE VR '99. Houston, TX, March 13-17, 1999, 164-171.
Johnson, A., Roussos, M., Leigh, J., Barnes, C., Vasilakis, C., Moher, T. (1998). The NICE Project: Learning Together in a Virtual World. IEEE VRAIS '98, Atlanta, GA, March 14-18, 1998, 176-183.
Roussos, M., Johnson, A., Leigh, J., Barnes, C., Vasilakis, C., Moher, T. (1997). NICE: Combining Constructionism, Narrative, and Collaboration in a Virtual Learning Environment. Proceedings of the 1997 SIGGRAPH Educator's Program - Computer Graphics, August, 1997, 62-63 & the cover & inside cover of CDROM.
Roussos, M., Johnson, A., Leigh, J., Barnes, C., Vasilakis, C., Moher, T. (1997). The NICE Project: Narrative, Immersive, Constructionist / Collaborative Environments for Learning in Virtual Reality. Proceedings of ED-MEDIA / ED-TELECOM '97. Calgary, Canada, June 14 - 19, 1997, 917-922. (Best Paper award).
Roussos, M., Johnson, A., Leigh, J., Vasilakis, C., Moher, T. (1996). Constructing Collaborative Stories Within Virtual Learning Landscapes. Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Educational '96. Lisbon, Portugal, Sept 30 - Oct 2, 1996, 129-135.
Steiner, K. and Moher, T. (1994). Scaffolding Story Construction With Interactive Multimedia. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia 3(2), June 1994, pp.173-196.
Steiner, K. and Moher, T. (1994). A Comparison of Verbal Interaction Between Young Users in Literal and Virtual Shared Learning Environments. Proceedings ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '94), Vol. 2, Boston, MA, May 1994, 97-98.
Steiner, K., and Moher, T. (1992). Graphic StoryWriter: an interactive environment for emergent storytelling. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '92). Monterey, CA, May 3-7, 1992, 357-364.