HCI for Teaching & Learning

Curriculum Vitae

I am an EECS Ph.D. candidate at MIT CSAIL advised by Rob Miller. My current research interests are human-computer interaction, learning at scale, and computer science education. I completed my M.Eng. in the MIT CSAIL Robot Locomotion Group. Prior to my time in robotics, I published work in biomedical signal processing with the mentorship of John Guttag and Jack Gelfand. I am also currently the Student President of MIT-MEET, which teaches gifted Israelis and Palestinians computer science and teamwork in Jerusalem.

Featured Project

OverCode is a system for visualizing and exploring thousands of solutions to a programming problem. OverCode uses both static and dynamic analysis to cluster similar solutions, and lets instructors further filter and cluster solutions based on different criteria.

Upcoming Travel and Talks

• HarvardX/MITx colloquium speaker, Harvard, May 15th
• ACM CHI, April 18-23, presenting OverCode and Mudslide (Best of CHI Honorable Mention)
• ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), March 16-17
• ACM Learning@Scale (L@S), March 14-15, presenting a poster on engineering education at scale

Journal Publications

• Elena L. Glassman, Jeremy Scott, Rishabh Singh, Philip J. Guo, and Robert C. Miller. OverCode: Visualizing Variation in Student Solutions to Programming Problems at Scale. Online Learning at Scale Special Issue of the ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM TOCHI), in press.
• Elena L. Glassman. A wavelet-like filter based on neuron action potentials for analysis of human scalp electroencephalographs. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 52, no. 11 (2005).

Conference Publications

• Elena L. Glassman, Juho Kim, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, and Meredith Ringel Morris. Mudslide: A Spatially Anchored Census of Student Confusion for Online Lecture Videos. CHI 2015, in press. (Best of CHI Honorable Mention)
• Juho Kim, Elena L. Glassman, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, and Meredith Ringel Morris. RIMES: Embedding Interactive Multimedia Exercises in Lecture Videos. CHI 2015, in press.
• Elena L. Glassman, Ned Gulley, and Robert C. Miller. Toward Facilitating Assistance to Students Attempting Engineering Design Problems. In Proceedings of the Ninth Annual International Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER), 2013. ACM, New York, NY, USA.
• Elena L. Glassman, Alexis Lussier Desbiens, Mark Tobenkin, Mark Cutkosky, and Russ Tedrake. Region of attraction estimation for a perching aircraft: A Lyapunov method exploiting barrier certificates. In Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012.
• Elena L. Glassman and Russ Tedrake. A quadratic regulator-based heuristic for rapidly exploring state space. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2010.

Theses

• Elena L. Glassman. A quadratic regulator-based heuristic for rapidly exploring state space. Thesis (M.Eng.). MIT Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2010.