H-star research

H-STAR is also home to several research labs and ongoing, large-scale research programs, funded from a variety of sources:

RESEARCH LABS AND PROGRAMS IN H-STAR

(1) Media X (http://mediax.stanford.edu/).  Media X seeks to build bridges among scholars and thought leaders from influential companies to address questions of real importance within both academia and industry. Fundamental to the Media X vision is the belief that the program serves two customers: industry partners that affiliate with the program, and the research community within Stanford University. Media X currently has 24 industry partners, and has funded over $2m of Stanford research.

(2) LIFE Center (http://life-slc.org/).  LIFE (Learning in Informal and Formal Environments), located within SCIL, is one of four national Science of Learning Centers funded by the National Science Foundation ($25M for first five years). The mission of the LIFE Center, a distributed center jointly developed and operated by Stanford University, the University of Washington, and SRI International, is to understand and advance human learning through a simultaneous focus on implicit, informal and formal learning, thus cultivating generalizable interdisciplinary theories that can guide the design of effective new technologies and learning environments. 

(3) VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism (http://injo.stanford.edu/).   This center pursues human-sciences and technology research in areas that will impact and promote the development of innovation journalism, i.e. journalistic coverage of innovation processes and ecosystems. This involves looking at how journalism influences innovation, how innovation influences journalism, and the ability of journalism to cover innovation. The center hosts visiting researchers from Sweden and elsewhere. Funded by VINNOVA. 

(4) Persuasive Technology Lab (http://captology.stanford.edu/).   The Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab, directed by Dr. BJ Fogg, creates insight into how computing products - from websites to mobile phone software - can be designed to change what people believe and what they do, to bring about positive changes in many domains, including health, business, safety, and education. With such ends in mind, we are creating a body of expertise in the design, theory, and analysis of persuasive technologies, an area called captology. 

(5) AAAlab (http://aaalab.stanford.edu).  The AAAlab studies understanding and the ways that technology can facilitate its development. The lab works at the intersection of cognitive science, education, and computer science by examining and enhancing learning in individual, cross-cultura;, and technological settings. A theme throughout the research is how people's facility for spatial thinking can inform and influence processes of learning, instruction, assessment, and problem solving. 

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS IN H-STAR

Cliff Nass: Impacts of Media Multitasking on Children's Learning and Development, NSF: $42,181 (05.01.09-10.31.09)

Cliff Nass: Social Psychology of Mobile Interaction, Nokia: $246,325 (04.01.09-03.31.11)

Cliff Nass: The Social Medium is the Message, NSF: $436,409 (07.15.09-06.30.12)

Roy Pea, Jeremy Bailenson, Brigid Barron, Shelly Goldman, Byrion Reeves, Dan Schwartz: The LIFE Center: Learning in Informal and Formal Environments, NSF: $6,439,654 (10.01.09-09.30.14)

Dan Schwartz: Cognitive and cortical restructuring in the acquisition of negative number concepts, NSF: $1,000,000 (9.1.08-8.31.11)

Dan Schwartz: Assisting and assessing middle school science learning in formal and informal settings, NSF: $500,000 (1.01.07-12.31.09)

Dan Schwartz: Formal Analysis of Choice-Adaptive Intelligent Learning Environments (FACILE) that Support Future Learning, NSF: $691,476 (08.01.09-07.31.12)

RECENTLY COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECTS IN H-STAR

Craig Heller: Wallenberg Global Learning Network (III), KAW Foundation: $230,800 (9.01.08-8.31.08)

Guadalupe Valdez: Stanford English Language Learner Online Video Resources - Exploring Future Functions & Formats, Carnegie Foundation: $49,800 (3.1.08-10.31.08)

Dan Schwartz: The ideal science student: helping teachers adapt to diversity in science classrooms, NSF: $220,000 (10.01.07-9.30.09)

Dan Schwartz: The educational neuroscience of integer understanding, NSF: $109,600 (8.15.07-7.31.08)

Byron Reeves: Frontline SMS - Phase II, MacArthur Foundation: $200,000 (7.01.07-8.31.08)

Byron Reeves: Persuasive Technology Conference at Stanford University 2007, NSF: $27,600 (4.15.07-12.31.08)

Brigid Barron: Learning to create and creating to learn through design based projects - An investigation of learning processes and outcomes across settings and time, MacArthur Foundation: $750,000 (10.01.06-9.30.09)

Dan Schwartz: A learning by teaching approach to help students develop self-regulatory learning skills in middle school science classrooms, DOE: $750,000 (7.1.06-6.30.09)

Craig Heller: Wallenberg Global Learning Network (II), KAW Foundation: $5,367,000 (10.01.05-9.30.08)

Sam Wineburg: Teaching History with Online Resources, Hewlett Foundation: $500,000 (1.01.05-6.30.08)

Roy Pea: The LIFE Center - Learning in Informal and Formal Environments, NSF: $6,560,000 (10.01.04-9.30.09)

Dan Schwartz: Biological Bases of Alphanumeric Learning Interventions, NSF: $527,600 (2.15.04-1.31.09)

Guadalupe Valdez: English Language Acquisition: National Professional Development (I, II), DOE: $2,121,500 (9.30.02-9.14.09)