Jessica Van Brummelen

Profile

HCI Research Scientist ~ Niantic, Inc. ~ London, UK

Hello! I’m Jess, a Human-Computer Interaction Research Scientist. I work at Niantic, Inc., where I research & develop augmented reality related applications to help people explore the world around them.

Before Niantic, I obtained my PhD in computer science at MIT while working in Dr. Hal Abelson’s App Inventor lab. There, I developed conversational agent technology to empower and teach young learners about AI.

Prior to MIT, I was a mechanical engineering student at UBC, where I researched autonomous vehicles and driver assistance systems in Dr. Homayoun Najjaran’s ACIS lab.

Publications

Don’t Look Now: Audio/Haptic Guidance for 3D Scanning of Landmarks

Don’t Look Now: Audio/Haptic Guidance for 3D Scanning of Landmarks

Jessica Van Brummelen, Liv Piper Urwin, Oliver James Johnston, Mohamed Sayed, Gabriel J. Brostow

International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024

ABSPDF
What Do Children and Parents Want and Perceive in Conversational Agents? Towards Transparent, Trustworthy, Democratized Agents

What Do Children and Parents Want and Perceive in Conversational Agents? Towards Transparent, Trustworthy, Democratized Agents

Jessica Van Brummelen, M. Kelleher, Mi Tian, Nghi Hoang Nguyen

International Conference on Interaction Design and Children 2022

ABSPDF
Learning Affects Trust: Design Recommendations and Concepts for Teaching Children - and Nearly Anyone - about Conversational Agents

Learning Affects Trust: Design Recommendations and Concepts for Teaching Children - and Nearly Anyone - about Conversational Agents

Jessica Van Brummelen, Mi Tian, M. Kelleher, Nghi Hoang Nguyen

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2022

ABSPDF
The Effects on Secondary School Students of Applying Experiential Learning to the Conversational AI Learning Curriculum

The Effects on Secondary School Students of Applying Experiential Learning to the Conversational AI Learning Curriculum

Ting-Chia Hsu, H. Abelson, Jessica Van Brummelen

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning 2022

ABSPDF
Teaching Students About Conversational AI Using Convo, a Conversational Programming Agent

Teaching Students About Conversational AI Using Convo, a Conversational Programming Agent

Jessica Zhu, Jessica Van Brummelen

IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages / Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments 2021

ABS
“Alexa, Can I Program You?”: Student Perceptions of Conversational Artificial Intelligence Before and After Programming Alexa

“Alexa, Can I Program You?”: Student Perceptions of Conversational Artificial Intelligence Before and After Programming Alexa

Jessica Van Brummelen, Viktoriya Tabunshchyk, Tommy Heng

International Conference on Interaction Design and Children 2021

ABSPDF
Designing AI Learning Experiences for K-12: Emerging Works, Future Opportunities and a Design Framework

Designing AI Learning Experiences for K-12: Emerging Works, Future Opportunities and a Design Framework

Xiaofei Zhou, Jessica Van Brummelen, Phoebe Lin

arXiv.org 2020

ABSPDF
Engaging Teachers to Co-Design Integrated AI Curriculum for K-12 Classrooms

Engaging Teachers to Co-Design Integrated AI Curriculum for K-12 Classrooms

Jessica Van Brummelen, Phoebe Lin

International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2020

ABSPDF
Teaching Tech to Talk: K-12 Conversational Artificial Intelligence Literacy Curriculum and Development Tools

Teaching Tech to Talk: K-12 Conversational Artificial Intelligence Literacy Curriculum and Development Tools

Jessica Van Brummelen, Tommy Heng, Viktoriya Tabunshchyk

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2020

ABSPDF
Zhorai: Designing a Conversational Agent for Children to Explore Machine Learning Concepts

Zhorai: Designing a Conversational Agent for Children to Explore Machine Learning Concepts

Phoebe Lin, Jessica Van Brummelen, G. Lukin, Randi Williams, C. Breazeal

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2020

ABSPDF
CONVO: What does conversational programming need?

CONVO: What does conversational programming need?

Jessica Van Brummelen, Kevin Weng, Phoebe Lin, C. Yeo

IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages / Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments 2020

ABSPDF

LEARNING TO PROGRAM CONVERSATIONALLY: A CONVERSATIONAL AGENT TO FURTHER DEMOCRATIZE PROGRAMMING

Jessica Van Brummelen, C. Yeo, Kevin Weng

INTED2020 Proceedings 2020

ABS

DESIGN OF A VIRTUAL TOOL FOR ESTIMATING VOCABULARY ACQUISITION THROUGH READING

Ufuoma Ovienmhada, Natalie Lao, Jessica Van Brummelen

ICERI proceedings 2019

ABS

Conversational Agents to Democratize Artificial Intelligence

Jessica Van Brummelen

IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages / Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments 2019

ABS

Autonomous vehicle perception: The technology of today and tomorrow

Jessica Van Brummelen, Marie O'Brien, D. Gruyer, H. Najjaran

ABS
Analysis of driving data for autonomous vehicle applications

Analysis of driving data for autonomous vehicle applications

Marie O'Brien, Kai Neubauer, Jessica Van Brummelen, H. Najjaran

IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics 2017

ABS
Reliable and low-cost cyclist collision warning system for safer commute on urban roads

Reliable and low-cost cyclist collision warning system for safer commute on urban roads

Jessica Van Brummelen, B. J. Emran, K. Yesilcimen, H. Najjaran

IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics 2016

ABS
INS/GPS localization for reliable cooperative driving

INS/GPS localization for reliable cooperative driving

Samira Kaviani, Marie O'Brien, Jessica Van Brummelen, H. Najjaran, D. Michelson

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2016

ABS

Empowering K-12 Students to Understand and Design Conversational Agents: Concepts, Recommendations and Development Platforms

Jessica Van Brummelen

What Do WEIRD and Non-WEIRD Conversational Agent Users Want and Perceive? Towards Transparent, Trustworthy, Democratized Agents

What Do WEIRD and Non-WEIRD Conversational Agent Users Want and Perceive? Towards Transparent, Trustworthy, Democratized Agents

Jessica Van Brummelen, M. Kelleher, Mi Tian, Nghi Hoang Nguyen

arXiv.org 2022

ABSPDF
Conversational Artificial Intelligence Development Tools for K-12 Education

Conversational Artificial Intelligence Development Tools for K-12 Education

Jessica Van Brummelen

International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning The Effects on Secondary School Students of Applying Experiential Learning to the Conversational AI Learning Curriculum

International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning The Effects on Secondary School Students of Applying Experiential Learning to the Conversational AI Learning Curriculum

Ting-Chia Hsu, H. Abelson, Jessica Van Brummelen

Tools to create and democratize conversational artificial intelligence

Jessica Van Brummelen, Jessica