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Human-Amplifying and Transformational Computing
Tiffany Barnes
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
North Carolina State University
tiffany.barnes@gmail.com
Biographical Sketch
Tiffany Barnes is an Associate Professor of Computer Sci-
ence at NC State University and received her PhD from
NC State in 2003. Dr. Barnes received an NSF CAREER
Award for her novel work in using data to add intelligence
to STEM learning environments. Dr. Barnes is co-PI on the
$9 M NSF STARS Alliance grants that engage college
students in outreach, research, and service. She has re-
ceived ~$2 M in funds as PI from the National Science
Foundation, NASA, and industry sources to research ef-
fective ways to build serious games for education, exer-
cise, and environmental awareness; promote undergradu-
ate research; and develop new ways to teach computing.
Abstract Dr. Barnes serves on executive boards for ACM SIGCSE,
EDM, and AIED. She has been on the organizing commit-
Human-centered computing has at its core the idea that tees for several conferences including Educational Data
humans are central to many of the things we create and use Mining and Foundations of Digital Games, and has served
computers to do. On a trip to Haiti, I began to rethink my as associate editor for the Journal of Educational Data
own perspective on computing – what, exactly, are com- Mining and was a guest editor for IEEE Computer
puters and computing for? Computing is and should be Graphics and Applications.
about amplifying people – to be more of what we think of
as “human”. Not only can computing amplify intelligence
– it can amplify compassion, communication, understand-
ing, and creativity – and even transform people and our
society. Programming languages like Alice, Scratch, and
Snap and the creation of serious games highlight the im-
portance of leveraging creativity to inspire the next wave
of transformative innovation in computing. In this talk I’ll
lead in with this idea and give an overview of my work
including: the new CS Principles Advanced Placement
course (and our Beauty and Joy of Computing version of
it), the STARS Alliance for broadening participation, cre-
ating games for education, exercise, and energy, and using
data to personalize learning experiences.