Nicola Law

RESEARCH AS EMPOWERMENT

RESEARCH. PLAY. Educate. REPEAT.

Hi, I’m Nicola.

Doctoral Student in Instructional Technology and Media,
Teachers College, Columbia University.
Mix Methods Researcher | Social & Psychological Aspects of Human-Computer and Robot Interaction | Interdisciplinary Focus on Learning Science and Media Studies

Featured work

Featured

Lumosity

UXR, Interview, Usability, Card Sorting, Journey Map

Dream Toy

Child-Computer Interaction, Interview, Digital Fabrication

Möbius

Human-Robot Interaction, Gender Gap, Experiment, Interview, Video Analysis

Exhausting a Crowd

Exhausting a Crowd

Privacy, Surveillance, Data Scraping, Content Analysis

 Current Work

Media Literacy InitiativeThis project studies youth attitudes regarding misinformation and their responses to media literacy campaigns on a youth-oriented social media platform, TikTok.#YouthCulture #ContentAnalysis — Media Literacy Initiative
This project studies youth attitudes regarding misinformation and their responses to media literacy campaigns on a youth-oriented social media platform, TikTok.
#YouthCulture #ContentAnalysis

Mere Belief of Social InteractionThis study examines how people’s beliefs - interacting with human beings vs. computer agents - influence their learnings and behaviors when interacting with anthropomorphic robots.#HRI #Psychology #Experiment — Mere Belief of Social Interaction
This study examines how people’s beliefs - interacting with human beings vs. computer agents - influence their learnings and behaviors when interacting with anthropomorphic robots.
#HRI #Psychology #Experiment

Make with DataThis project empowers high school students to construct personally-meaningful projects to solve local community problems using open-source data in a collaborative team.#Identity #DataScience #Interview — Make with Data
This project empowers high school students to construct personally-meaningful projects to solve local community problems using open-source data in a collaborative team.
#Identity #DataScience #Interview

LAMBOOZLED!Grounded in current research on news literacy, this research project developed a game for young people’s media literacy skills, with a focus on identifying fake news and misinformation.#MediaLiteracy #UsabilityTesting — LAMBOOZLED!
Grounded in current research on news literacy, this research project developed a game for young people’s media literacy skills, with a focus on identifying fake news and misinformation.
#MediaLiteracy #UsabilityTesting