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Aesthetics in the Eugenics Movement: A Critical Examination (2022)
Journal Article
WOODS, P. (2022). Aesthetics in the Eugenics Movement: A Critical Examination. Journal of Aesthetic Education, 56(2), 56-77

Although multiple scholars have pushed music education to embrace the aesthetic as a curricular and pedagogical touchstone, research surrounding this aesthetic turn has largely framed aesthetics as a sensory experience rather than a social technology... Read More about Aesthetics in the Eugenics Movement: A Critical Examination.

What Do You Meme? Students Communicating their Experiences, Intuitions, and Biases Surrounding Data Through Memes (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vacca, R., DesPortes, K., Tes, M., Silander, M., Amato, A., Matuk, C., & Woods, P. J. (2022, June). What Do You Meme? Students Communicating their Experiences, Intuitions, and Biases Surrounding Data Through Memes. Presented at IDC '22: Interaction Design and Children, Braga, Portugal and online

Memes have become ubiquitous artifacts of contemporary digital culture that integrate visual and textual components in order to communicate about a topic. They can be used as forms of visual argumentation that draw on cultural references while facili... Read More about What Do You Meme? Students Communicating their Experiences, Intuitions, and Biases Surrounding Data Through Memes.

Data Storytelling in the Classroom (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Matuk, C., Amato, A., Davidesco, I., Rubel, L., Stornaiuolo, A., Blikstein, P., Bumbacher, E., Chance, B., DesPortes, K., Eloy, A., Fagan, E., Fuhrmann, T., Gebre, E., Herbel-Eisenmann, B., Jiang, S., Kahn, J., Lim, V., Louie, J., Peralta, L. M., Roy, S., …Woods, P. J. (2022, June). Data Storytelling in the Classroom. Presented at 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Hiroshima, Japan (online)

”I happen to be one of 47.8%”: Social-Emotional and Data Reasoning in Middle School Students’ Comics about Friendship (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vacca, R., Desportes, K., Tes, M., Silander, M., Matuk, C., Amato, A., & Woods, P. J. (2022, April). ”I happen to be one of 47.8%”: Social-Emotional and Data Reasoning in Middle School Students’ Comics about Friendship. Presented at CHI ’22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New Orleans, USA and online

Effective data literacy instruction requires that learners move beyond understanding statistics to being able to humanize data through a contextual understanding of argumentation and reasoning in the real-world. In this paper, we explore the implemen... Read More about ”I happen to be one of 47.8%”: Social-Emotional and Data Reasoning in Middle School Students’ Comics about Friendship.

Impact of VR-Based Training on Human-Robot Interaction for Remote Operating Construction Robots (2022)
Journal Article
Adami, P., Rodrigues, P. B., Woods, P. J., Becerik-Gerber, B., Soibelman, L., Copur-Gencturk, Y., & Lucas, G. (2022). Impact of VR-Based Training on Human-Robot Interaction for Remote Operating Construction Robots. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 36(3), https://doi.org/10.1061/%28asce%29cp.1943-5487.0001016

Despite the increased interest in automation and the expanded deployment of robots in the construction industry, using robots in a dynamic and unstructured working environment has caused safety concerns in operating construction robots. Improving hum... Read More about Impact of VR-Based Training on Human-Robot Interaction for Remote Operating Construction Robots.

Learning to make noise: toward a process model of artistic practice within experimental music scenes (2022)
Journal Article
Woods, P. J. (2022). Learning to make noise: toward a process model of artistic practice within experimental music scenes. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 29(2), 169-185. https://doi.org/10.1080/10749039.2022.2098337

Emerging at the intersection of industrial, punk, electronic music, and avant-garde jazz, noise music represents a niche subgenre reliant on loud, discordant, and arrhythmic sounds to make music. Yet despite its place within the (broadly defined) exp... Read More about Learning to make noise: toward a process model of artistic practice within experimental music scenes.

Challenges and Opportunities in Teaching and Learning Data Literacy through Art (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Matuk, C., DesPortes, K., Amato, A., Silander, M., Vacca, R., Vasudevan, V., & Woods, P. J. (2021, June). Challenges and Opportunities in Teaching and Learning Data Literacy through Art. Presented at 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2021, Bochum, Germany (online)

Achieving data literacy is challenging when schools narrowly focus on statistical reasoning rather than on meaning- and inference-making. Without attention to the social contexts of data, learners can fail to develop a critical stance toward data, to... Read More about Challenges and Opportunities in Teaching and Learning Data Literacy through Art.

Effectiveness of VR-based training on improving construction workers’ knowledge, skills, and safety behavior in robotic teleoperation (2021)
Journal Article
Adami, P., Rodrigues, P. B., Woods, P. J., Becerik-Gerber, B., Soibelman, L., Copur-Gencturk, Y., & Lucas, G. (2021). Effectiveness of VR-based training on improving construction workers’ knowledge, skills, and safety behavior in robotic teleoperation. Advanced Engineering Informatics, 50, Article 101431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2021.101431

The emergence of construction robotics and automation has produced an urgent and vast need for construction workers to reskill and upskill for the future of work. Virtual Reality (VR)-based training has been considered and investigated as a safe and... Read More about Effectiveness of VR-based training on improving construction workers’ knowledge, skills, and safety behavior in robotic teleoperation.

Towards a process model of developing artistic practice within experimental music communities (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Woods, P. J. (2020, June). Towards a process model of developing artistic practice within experimental music communities. Presented at International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Nashville, USA

While extant experimental music literature has positioned this amorphous musical tradition as a valuable educational context, most studies have focused on formal education spaces and ignored how experimental musicians learn within informal music comm... Read More about Towards a process model of developing artistic practice within experimental music communities.

Reimagining collaboration through the lens of the posthuman: Uncovering embodied learning in noise music (2020)
Journal Article
Woods, P. J. (2021). Reimagining collaboration through the lens of the posthuman: Uncovering embodied learning in noise music. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 18(1), 45-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/15505170.2020.1786747

While education research has largely avoided posthumanist scholarship, this analytic lens challenges the ways in which researchers have conceptualized educational technologies, i.e. collaboration and embodied learning, as primarily humanist endeavors... Read More about Reimagining collaboration through the lens of the posthuman: Uncovering embodied learning in noise music.

Data literacy for social justice (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Matuk, C., Amato, A., DesPortes, K., Tes, M., Vasudevan, V., Yoon, S., Shim, J., Cottone, A., Miller, K., Himes, B., Urbanowicz, R., Gonzalez, M., Polman, J., Sommer, S., Barton, J., Bulalacao, N., Cortes, K., Gutiérrez, K., Lanouette, K., Lopez, M. L., …Zellner, M. L. (2020, June). Data literacy for social justice. Presented at International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Nashville, USA

The projects in this interactive poster symposium explore ways of engaging learners with social justice issues through the design and study of data literacy interventions. These interventions span classroom to museum contexts, and environmental to so... Read More about Data literacy for social justice.

Conceptions of teaching in and through noise: a study of experimental musicians’ beliefs (2019)
Journal Article
Woods, P. J. (2019). Conceptions of teaching in and through noise: a study of experimental musicians’ beliefs. Music Education Research, 21(4), 459-468. https://doi.org/10.1080/14613808.2019.1611753

Critical analyses of experimental music and free improvisation have uncovered multiple educational benefits embedded within this broad collection of genres. However, by rooting this work primarily within formal classrooms, scholars have yet to discov... Read More about Conceptions of teaching in and through noise: a study of experimental musicians’ beliefs.

Ethics and practices in American DIY spaces (2017)
Journal Article
Woods, P. (2017). Ethics and practices in American DIY spaces. Punk and Post Punk, 6(1), 63-80. https://doi.org/10.1386/punk.6.1.63_1

The history of punk and its subgenres is, in part, a history of DIY spaces and the influences these spaces have on punk and the DIY scene at large. A better understanding of the ethical guidelines of DIY venue organizers would provide insight into th... Read More about Ethics and practices in American DIY spaces.