Assistant Professor, Computer Science
- PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
- MS, Carnegie Mellon University
- BS, Carnegie Mellon University
Jennifer K. Olsen, PhD, is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of San Diego since 2020. She received her PhD and MS from Carnegie Mellon University in Human-Computer Interaction and her BS in Cognitive Science. Before joining USD, Dr. Olsen was a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL). Her research interests lie at the intersection of human-computer interaction, cognition, and education. Her current work focuses on how collaboration can support learning and how to design educational technology to support these practices from both the learners’ and instructors’ perspectives.
Areas of Expertise
human-computer interaction, learning sciences, educational technology, collaborative learning, learning analytics
Scholarly Work
- With Ken Holstein, "Human-AI co-orchestration: the role of artificial intelligence in orchestration" in Handbook of artificial intelligence in education. 2023, pp. 309-321.
- With Vincent Aleven, Manolis Mavrikis, Bruce M McLaren, Huy A Nguyen, and Nikol Rummel, "Six instructional approaches supported in AIED systems" in Handbook of artificial intelligence in education. 2023, pp. 184-228.
- With Aditi Kothiyal, "Identifying Productive Reflection in Ill-Structured Problem Solving," 2022.
- With Jiang, Shiyan, "Integrating student identity support in orchestration systems.," 2022.
- With Arzu Guneysu Ozgur, Kshitij Sharma, and Wafa Johal, "Leveraging eye tracking to understand children’s attention during game-based, tangible robotics activities," vol. 31, 2022.
- With Kshitij Sharma and Shiyan Jiang, "What brings students together?: Investigating the causal relationship between joint mental effort and joint visual attention.," 2022.
- With Nikol Rummel, Vincent Aleven, Kshitij Sharma, Vincent Aleven, Nikol Rummel, Kshitij Sharma, Himanshu Verma, Daniela Caballero, and Patrick Jermann, "Designing for the co-orchestration of social transitions between individual, small-group and whole-class learning in the classroom," vol. 31, pp. 24-56, 2021.
- With Wafa Johal, Barbara Bruno, Jennifer K Olsen, Mohamed Chetouani, and Séverin Lemaignan, "Robots for learning-Learner-centred design" in Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2021, pp. 715-716.
- With Eduardo Benitez Sandoval, Diego Vazquez Rojas, Clarissa Parada, Alvaro Anzueto Rios, and Wafa Johal, "Virtual Characters versus Social Robots: A Future Comparative Study of Social Agents for English Language Teaching ." , 2021.
- With Louis Faucon, Jennifer K Olsen, and Pierre Dillenbourg, "A bayesian model of individual differences and flexibility in inductive reasoning for categorization of examples" in Proceedings of the tenth international conference on learning analytics & knowledge. 2020, pp. 285-294.