Hugo F. & Ina Champ Urbauer Career Development Assistant Professor
Biography
Professor Kelleher joined Washington University in St. Louis in 2007 after her postdoctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University.
She worked throughout the summer months of 2000 in research and development at Walt Disney Imagineering.
Professor Kelleher is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Upsilon Pi Epsilon, and a recipient of a 2011 National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
Research
Professor Kelleher's research focus is in the area of human-computer interaction. Her work has centered on the design, development, and evaluation of a programming system for middle school girls, titled "Storytelling Alice." This program includes high-level animations to enable users to program social interactions, a gallery of characters and scenery designed to spark story ideas, and a story-based tutorial.
Selected Publications
Kelleher, C. and R. Pausch. Using Storytelling to Motivate Programming.
Communications of the ACM, vol. 50, no. 7, July 2007, pages 58-64.
Kelleher, C. and R. Pausch. Lowering the barriers to programming: A taxonomy of programming environments and languages for novice programmers.
ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 37 no. 2, June 2005, pages 83-137.