Our vision is to reduce vulnerability in children and protect them from exploitation, violence, and abuse.
Objectives are:
- Create a theoretical account of the ontology of skills, e.g., what distinguishes behaviors that are skills vs. behaviors that are not skills? What are skills composed of?
- Create an account of people’s developmental trajectories as they move through different levels of a skill, beginning at a novice level, moving to intermediate levels and, possibly, arriving at expertise
- Create an inventory of known models of learning skills (what models describe how skill levels are learned), possibly adding to that inventory
- Conduct research to shed light on issues of theory, e.g., models of learning skills
- Produce teaching products (technologies, curricula) that can foster skill development
- Conducting evaluation research to test the effectiveness of these teaching products
- Study the DNA of teaching, i.e., uncovering deep aspects of teaching, where skills are what is being
- Scale up the tested technologies and curricula for fostering learning skills
- Cognitive and Neurophysiological Aspects of Learning
- AI for Signal processing
- AI for Computer Vision and Sensor-based Learning Analytics
- Wearable Sensors for Cognitive and Motor Skill Assessment
- Extended Reality (XR) and Immersive Learning
- Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction
- Haptics and Multisensory Feedback in Learning
- Ethics, Accessibility, and Societal Implications of Emerging Technologies
Gayathri Manikutty
TAG Lead
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Educational Neuroscience, Human-Robot Interaction, and Computing Education
gayathri.manikutty@ammachilabs.org
Prof. Bhavani R Rao
Dean, School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Research Interests: Vocational Education; Vulnerability Mapping; Rural Development; Educational Technology; Games for Change; and Computing in Social Sciences
bhavani@am.amrita.edu
Pranav Prabha
Research Project Manager
Research Interests: Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for education, and Computing Education
pranav.prabha@ammachilabs.org
Sandeep Murali
Lab Manager
Research Interests: Learning Experience Using Extended Reality, Haptics, and Robotics
sandeep.murali@ammachilabs.org
Arjun Venugopal
Research Assistant
Research Interests: Neuroscience, Brain Computer Interface, Computer Vision, Neurorobotics
arjun.venugopal@ammachilabs.org
Ajeetha Rajan
Intern MSc. Cognitive Science, Learning and Technology
Research Interests:
Neuroscience, Neurotechnology
ajeetha.rajan@ammachilabs.org
Kaavya Lakshmi
Intern MSc. Cognitive Science, Learning and Technology
Research Interests: Social Robotics
Dr. Sidney Strauss
Full Emeritus Professor,
School of Education,
Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Dr. Veena Nair
Visiting Professor
Imaging Sciences
Department of Radiology
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, USA
Dr. Praveen Pankajakshan
Ex-Chief Scientist Cropin AI lab,
India
