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CodeWithZB coming in the Fall of 2025

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is a collaborative project between UCP of Central Florida and the University of Central Florida that aims to improve the social skills of students with disabilities

PROJECT RAISE

RESEARCH MATERIALS

TOOLKIT

COMING SOON

RESEARCH PARTNER SCHOOLS

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UCP OF CENTRAL FLORIDA 

CHARTER SCHOOLS

MEDIA COVERAGE

For more information, please email:

Dr. Shaunn Smith

RESEARCH ARTICLES 

​​Dieker, L., Hines, R., Wilkins, I., Hughes, C., Hawkins Scott, K., Smith, S., Shah, S. (2024)

Using an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agent to Support Teacher Instruction and Student Learning. Journal of Special Education Preparation, 4(2), 78–88.

Vasquez Ferrer, R. Ali, K., Shah, S., Ingraham, K., & Hughes, C. E. (2024)

Using AI-based   Virtual Companions to Assist Children with Autism in Recognizing and Addressing Cyberbullying. Sensors 2024, 24(12), 3875;

Ali, K., Shah, S., & Hughes, C.E. (2023).

In the Wild Affect Analysis of Children with ASD Using Heart Rate. Sensors 2023, 23, 6572.

Taylor, M. S., & Glavey, E. M. (2023)

Harnessing robotics and coding to foster social-emotional learning in students with autism. Journal of Special Education Technology.

Wang, D., Wang, P., Liu, K., Zhou, Y., Hughes, C. E., & Fu, Y. (2023)

Reinforced Imitative Graph Learning for Mobile User Profiling. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 35(12), 12944-12957.

Hughes, C. E., Dieker, L., A., Glavey, E., Hines, R., Wilkins, I., Ingraham, K., Bukaty, C., Ali, K., Shah, S., Murphy, J., & Taylor, M. (2022). RAISE:

Robotics & AI to Improve STEM and Social Skills for Elementary School Students. Frontiers in Virtual Reality: Virtual Reality and Human Behaviors.

Dieker, L. A., Kennedy, M. J., Vasquez III, E., & Rock, M.

[in press]

Use of technology in the preparation of pre-service teachers. University of Florida, Collaboration for Effective Educator, Development, Accountability, and Reform Center. (Document No. IC-11).

Marino, M. T., Vasquez, E., Dieker, L., Basham, J., & Blackorby, J. (2023).

The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Special Education Technology. Journal of Special Education Technology, 38 (3), 1-35

Shah, S., Ali, K., Dieker, L., & Hughes, C. (2023). WAVE:

a web-based platform for delivering knowledge-driven virtual experiences. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 43(3), 54-60.

Kent, J. A., & Hughes, C. E. (2022)

Law Enforcement Training using Simulation for Locally Customized Encounters. Frontiers in Virtual Reality: Technologies for Virtual Reality,

Ren, W., Wang, P., Li, X., Hughes, C.E., & Fu, Y. (2022)

Semi-supervised Drifted Stream Learning with Short Lookback. The 28th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 1504–1513.

Glavey, E. M., Hines, R. A., & Taylor, M. S. (2022).

Project RAISE

Developing a socially assistive robot to increase the social-emotional skills of elementary students with autism. DADD Online Journal

DISCLAIMER INFORMATION

For Practice/Research-Based Products

This document was produced under U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs Grant No. H327S200009. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the positions or polices of the Department of Education. No official endorsement by the U.S. Department of Education of any product, commodity, service, or enterprise mentioned in this publication is intended or should be inferred. This product is public domain. Authorization to reproduce it in whole or in part is granted. While permission to reprint this publication is not necessary, the citation should be:

UCP of Central Florida (2020). Project RAISE: Robots and Artificial Intelligence to Improve Social Skills for Elementary Students, Orlando, FL, 32817, UCP of Central Florida

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