I study Human-Information Interaction.
At the intersection of cognitive, information, and learning sciences,
I explore how humans create and appropriate tools for thinking.
These cognitive technologies, (also called external representations) range from
stunning interactive visualizations of data, simple charts and graphs, diagrams, systems of notation,
to even the text on this screen.
I leverage what we know about human cognition to inform the design of tools for thinking, and study their everyday use to learn about human cognition.
I am presently working as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the MIT Visualization Group, jointly supported by a CSAIL METEOR Fellowship, and MIT School of Engineering Postdoctoral Fellowship for Engineering Excellence (PFPEE).
PhD in Cognitive Science University of California San Diego advised by: Dr. James D. Hollan
MA in Interdisciplinary Studies — Cognitive Visualization California State University at Chico advised by: Drs. Wolfgang Schnotz, Neil Schwartz, Erica deVries
MSEd in Instructional Design* * Master Sciences de L'éducation — specialité professionnelle ingénrie de la formation Université Grenoble Alpes advised by: Dr. Erica deVries
BSc in Computer Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Amy R. Fox, Philip Guo, Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose, Peter Dalsgaard, Arvind Satyanarayan, Haijun Xia & James D. Hollan. (2020)
In Conference Companion of the 4th International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming (’20), March 23–26, 2020, Porto, Portugal.
Proceedings of the Convivial Computing Salon at PROGRAMMING 2020. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3397537.3397542
Amy R. Fox & James Hollan. (2018)
In International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams (pp. 441-457). Springer, Cham.
Amy R. Fox, Erica de Vries, Laurent Lima, & Savannah Loker.(2016)
In International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams (pp. 40-47). Springer, Cham.
Amy R. Fox (2020)
In Proceedings of The Visualization Psychology Workshop @ VIS 2020.
Presented as talk @ VisPsych 2020.
Amy R. Fox & Taylor Jackson Scott (2020)
In Proceedings of The Visualization Activities Workshop @ VIS 2020.
Presented as talk @ VisActivities 2020.
Amy R. Fox, James Hollan & Caren Walker (2019)
In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Montreal, Canada.
Presented as a full talk @ CogSci 2019.
Amy R. Fox , Martin Van den Berg, Erica deVries (2016)
In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Philadelphia, USA.
Presented poster at @ CogSci 2016.
Amy R. Fox, Stefani Byrd, Sarah Ciston, Fernanda Navarro Heidi & Kayser (2019)
In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition (pp. 481-485).
Exhibited at the Art Exhibition of C&C / DIS 2019 @ San Diego, USA.
Amy R. Fox, Caren Walker & James Hollan (2018)
In Proceedings of the 2018 Meeting of the European Association of Learning & Instruction - SIG 2: Comprehension of Text and Graphics. Freiburg, Germany.
Presented full talk @ EARLI-SIG2 @ Freiburg, Germany. Awarded JURE Best Paper / Presentation
Savannah Loker, Erica deVries & Amy R. Fox (2016)
In Proceedings of the 2016 Meeting of the European Association of Learning & Instruction - SIG 2: Comprehension of Text and Graphics. Geneva, Switzerland.
Ulrich Ludewing, Erica deVries, Neil Schwartz, Neil Jacobsen, Amy R. Fox & Savannah Loker (2015)
In Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Chicago, USA.
Amy R. Fox (2018)
Presented at the Doctoral Colloqium of the IEEE Conference on Information Visualization. Berlin, Germany.
Amy R. Fox (2018)
In Proceedings of the Graduate Symposium of the 2018 International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams. Edinburgh, Scotland.
Amy R. Fox (2016)
In Proceedings of the Graduate Symposium of the 2016 International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams. Philadelphia, USA.
Amy R. Fox (2015)