Caroline Pitt

iSchool PhD Candidate

A temporary page while my personal website is under construction.

(Updated April 2023)

Contact: pittc (AT) uw.edu

Helpful links:

• Curriculum Vitae

• Professional CV (Updated April 2023)[PDF]
• Expanded Resume-style CV (Updated April 2022)[PDF]

• Social Media and UW Profiles

  • Twitter (Professional) for regular updates on work
  • Mastodon (Professional) for updates and discussion
  • LinkedIn for opportunities
  • iSchool Profile (Student)
  • iSchool Profile (Instructor)

• Research Projects

• Digital Wellbeing in Youth & Families
  Designing wellbeing tools with and for teens.
• Teens' SEL Skills and TTRPGs
  Whitepaper released in January 2023. Analyzing recordings of Game to Grow sessions to better understand the youth and facilitator actions and dynamics.
• Technology's Role in Teen Wellbeing during COVID-19
  Assessing impacts on teens in the PNW during the early and middle stages of the pandemic.
• Digital Badges for STEM Education
  Collaborating with a science center and co-design learning pathways for a badge system with and for teens.
• Science Everywhere
  Using participatory design to co-design a community sociotechnical system that focused on science learning in everday life.
• ConnectedLib
  Developing and maintaining a toolkit for librarians to incorporate Connected Learning into their programs.

• Labs and Research Groups

• Digital Youth Lab, the broader DY umbrella
• CTRL-F Lab (Children,Technology Research,Learning + Families Lab)
• Game Research Group, collaborator
• KidsTeam UW, collaborator

• Archives and Works Lists

• ACM DL Profile
• arXiv
• DBLP Profile
• Google Scholar
• ORCID

• Press

• Herndon, S. (2023, April 10). Dungeons, dragons, dissertation: Ph.D. student Caroline Pitt explores gaming as an educational tool. University of Washington Information School (iNews).
• About my foundry10 internship work: Wilde, T. (2023, March 25). Can 'Dungeons & Dragons' and other tabletop games help youth build social skills? GeekWire.
• About my foundry10 internship work: Cashman, C. (2023, March 7). Seattle researchers find that Dungeons and Dragons can help kids build social-emotional skills. KING5.
• Quoted in: Upham, Becky. (2021, October 9). Facebook Comes Under Fire After Whistleblower and Leaked Documents Reveal Negative Impact on Young Girls. Everyday Health.
• iSchool piece on one of my CHI 2021 papers: Nguyen, Ahn. (2021, February 9). Technology helps teens cope with COVID, researchers find. iNews.

• Videos and Miscellany

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