Jessica Roberts
Assistant Professor

Jessica Roberts is an Assistant Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at GT with a PhD in the Learning Sciences, specializing in geospatial analysis and visualization in informal learning. As director of the Technology-Integrated Learning Environments (TILEs) Lab at Georgia Tech, her research explores technology-mediated social learning experiences in environments such as museums and citizen science. She is a former middle school teacher and a Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems Faculty Fellow. Her work on the design of interactive learning technologies has been exhibited at venues such as the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and the New York Hall of Science. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Dr. Roberts conducted postdoctoral research at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and the Tidal Lab at Northwestern University.

jessica.roberts@cc.gatech.edu
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Computing > School of Interactive Computing
Research Areas
Sustainable Systems
  • Sustainability Education Research
Additional Research
Learning Sciences, geospatial analysis, visualization , theater design, museum exhibit design, citizen science, interactive technologies, interactive learning technologies
IRI and Role
Sustainable Systems > Fellow
Sustainable Systems