Stanford University

Faculty Member, Human Sciences & Technologies Advanced Research Institute

Co-Director, H-STAR Institute; Professor of Learning Sciences and Education

About

My research is focused on how innovations in computing and communications technologies can influence learning, thinking, collaboration, and educational systems. I've most recently been focusing on bridging the sciences of informal and formal learning. My publications and research are on topics such as distributed cognition, learning and education fostered by advanced technologies including scientific visualization, on-line communities, digital video collaboratories, and wireless handheld computers (see http://www.stanford.edu/~roypea ). I founded and serve as director of our learning sciences doctoral program at Stanford University (2001). I launched and directed the first learning sciences doctoral program in the world at Northwestern University (1991).

H-STAR, the Human-Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute, is a Stanford interdisciplinary research center focusing on people and technology — how people use technology, how to better design technology to make it more usable (and more competitive in the marketplace), how technology affects people's lives, and the innovative use of technologies in research, education, art, business, commerce, entertainment, communication, national security, and other walks of life.

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