معرفی
Marti Louw is a faculty member at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) at Carnegie Mellon University. She serves as the Director of the Learning Media Design Center, Assistant Dean of Curriculum for the Integrative Design Arts & Technology (IDeATe) network, and teaches in the Masters of Educational Technology and Applied Learning Sciences (METALS) program and the IDeATe Design for Learning undergraduate minor. Her work bridges design and education to develop socially co-constructed, personally relevant, and emancipatory technology-enhanced learning environments.
Research Interests:
- Applied learning sciences for EdTech innovation
- Design-based research methodologies
- Embodied learning and disciplinary observation technologies
- Taxonomic identification skill development in citizen science
- Documentation practices in creative learning contexts
- Emerging technology integration in museums and informal learning
Scientific Awards:
- Generative AI Teaching as Research (GAITAR) Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Grants and Projects:
- Co-Principal Investigator, Learning Sciences for Innovators—Sustainable EdTech for Africa program (Mastercard Foundation)
- Principal Investigator, Learning to See, Seeing to Learn: Sociotechnical System for Taxonomic Identification in Water Quality Biomonitoring (NSF/AISL #1623969)
- Principal Investigator, Smart Spaces for Making: Networked Tools for Documentation and Learning (NSF/Cyberlearning #1736189)
- Co-investigator, Player-Programmed Partner Games for Low-Resource Learners (NSF/AISL #1906753)
- Principal Investigator, Digital Promise Product Efficacy Study (Gates Foundation)
- Principal Investigator, Remake Learning Research Landscape Evaluation (Grable Foundation)
Labs and Teams:
Marti leads the Learning Media Design Center and collaborates with the TRACES Lab, focusing on interdisciplinary design and educational technology.
