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Assistant Professor
Information Science

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Assistant Professor Ricarose Roquedesigns and studies equitable learning environments that enable young people to becomecomputational creators—able to use computing to create things they care about, developidentities as creatorsand imagine the ways they can shape the world. She draws on community-engaged, design-basedand ethnographicapproaches to study the role that social context plays in supportingchildren’s participation in computing, especially children from non-dominant groups who havebeen marginalized from opportunities because of race, ethnicity, immigration statusand/orsocioeconomic status.

Roque has courtesy appointments in the Computer Science and Learning Sciences and Human Development at the School of Education at 񱦵. She directs theresearch group and leads theproject. She isthe 2023 recipient of the Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to HumanisticResearch and Scholarship in Learning Technologies. She was previously a member of theLifelongKindergartenresearch group at theMIT Media Lab, a member of the MITScratchTeam, andfaculty associate at theBerkman Klein Center for Internet and Societyat Harvard University. Roque received an SB and an MEng in computer science and engineering as well as a SM and PhD in media arts and sciences from MIT.

Publications

Junnan Yu,Ronni Hayden,Ricarose Roque. 2023. “”. In:Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC '23)(Chicago, IL, June 19-23, 2023).

Ricarose Roque. 2023. “”. In:Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC '23)(Chicago, IL, June 19-23, 2023).

C. Moreno,R. Roque. 2023. “”. In:Proceedings of the ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference (C&C ‘23)(Virtual, June 19-21, 2023).