News

September 1, 2025
Koeun received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a Principal Investigator on “A Behavioral and Neural Investigation of Young Children’s Attention and Comprehension on Interactive Video Viewing Platforms”

August 13, 2025
Koeun and our lab members are featured on Virginia Tech News, entitled “When Technology Joins Story Time” [Link]

August 1, 2025
Koeun received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a Co-Principal Investigator on “Responsible Robot and AI Literacy. Embodied Informal Learning on Ethical Robotics and AI through a Creative Afterschool Program.” [Link]

July 21, 2025
Koeun and our lab members were featured in the first issue of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences digital magazine, ECHO, in the article “Technology Meets Early Learning” [Link]

July 13-16, 2025
Mahmut (Talk), Jing (Flash Talk), Seyda (Poster), and Carla (Poster) presented at the 2025 Children and Screens Congress [Speakers] [Abstracts]

June 3, 2025
Koeun received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor. [Link]

May 16, 2025
Seyda has been selected as a 2025 Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Virginia Tech. Congratulations! [Link]

May 1-3, 2025
Mahmut (Poster), Jing (Poster), and Jisun (Symposium) presented at the 2025 Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Conference [Link]

February 1, 2025
Koeun received a grant from the Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood as a Principal Investigator on “Supporting Playful Parent Child Joint Reading Experiences Through AI Digital Technology.” [Link]

August 1, 2024
Carla received a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF), co-sponsored by Koeun, for the project “Looking Beyond Screen Time. Exploring the Relationship Between Diverse Media Experience, Educational Expectations, and Learning in Children”[Link]

May 14, 2024
Jisun, Koeun, and our lab received a ICAT Creativity + Innovation Day Museum’s Choice Award at Virginia Tech on AI and Storytelling. Congratulations! [Link]

August 16, 2023
Shuqi received a Graduate Grant from the Organization for Autism Research (OAR) to support her dissertation on parenting and autism. Congratulations! [Link]

May 16, 2023
Koeun and her colleagues received an ISCE grant to support an interactive AI counting project. [Link]

May 16, 2023
The undergrad researchers from the CoDeS Lab received the Service Learning and Research Award at the Dennis Dean Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Conference! [Link]

March 23-25, 2023
Jisun, Shuqi, Mahmut, and Koeun presented talks and posters at SRCD!

March 23-25, 2023
Jisun and Shuqi received travel fund from SRCD to give presentations at SRCD. Congratulations!

March 23-25, 2023
Jisun, Shuqi, and Mahmut received travel funds from the Virginia Tech Graduate School and from the HDFS department to give presentations at SRCD. Congratulations!

March 20, 2023
Jisun received a Graduate Research Development Program Grant to support her dissertation on AI storybook reading from the Graduate and Professional Student Sentate of Virginia Tech. Congratulations!

Dec 02, 2022
Koeun gave an invited talk at the Asian Cultural Engagement Center! [Flyer]

Nov 21, 2022
The child robot theater project was featured on the VT news! [Link]

May 20, 2022
Koeun gave an invited talk (Virtual) on Cognitive development and digital technology at the Department of Psychology at Yonsei University in South Korea.

May 2, 2022
Koeun gave an invited talk on Act, Dance, Sing, and Learn with Social Robot (Child-Robot Musical Theater for Informal STEAM Education) at the Center for Humanities at Virginia Tech. [Link]

May 2, 2022
Koeun joined the collaborators to present the Robot Musical Theater project at the ICAT Creativity and Innovation Day. The Robot Musical Theater for STEAM team received the Judges Choice Award! [Link]

April 30, 2022
Koeun, Jisun, Jordan, Yullie, and Laura joined the collaborators to present the Robot Musical Theater project at the 2022 Ut Prosim Seminar.

April 29, 2022
Koeun and Shuqi joined the collaborators to present the Robot Musical Theater project at the ICAT Play Date [Link]

April 29, 2022
Julia, Laura, Yullie, Luke, Ursi, and Jordan presented two posters at the Spring 2022 Dennis Dean Undergraduate Research Conference [Link]

April 21, 2022
Koeun organized a preconference workshop with Dr. Heather Kirkorian on Digital Media and Cognitive Development at the meeting of the Cognitive Development Society and gave a talk on the robot theater project. [Link]

April 23, 2022
Shuqi and Koeun presented a poster on Sing, act, and dance with robots (A child-robot musical theater afterschool program for STEAM education) at the meeting of the Cognitive Development Society. [Link]

April 23, 2022
Jisun presented a poster on Q and A on Zoom for preschooler (The impact of on-screen partner’s questions on preschoolers’ word learning and memory of content from shared book reading over video chat) at the meeting of the Cognitive Development Society. [Link]

April 23, 2022
Koeun and Jisun gave a guest lecture on Children’s learning from digital media technology in early childhood for the School of Techer Education and Leadership at Redford University.

December 17, 2021
Congratulations Taylor, Martha, and Julia on your graduation and wishing you all the best!

December 15, 2021
Congratulations Taylor for receiving the Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society Senior Medallion! [Link]

November 26, 2021
Koeun gave an invited talk (Virtual) on Young children’s digital media use and safety at the meeting of the Korean Association of Human Ecology. [Flyer]

November 13, 2021
Koeun gave an invited talk (Virtual) on Digital media and child development at the meeting of the Korean Society for Developmental Psychology. [Flyer]

November 11, 2021
Koeun was featured in November 2021 SRCD Asian Caucus Spotlight. [Link]

May 14, 2021
Koeun gave an invited research talk (Virtual) on Cognitive development and digital technology in the Department of Bio and Brain Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). [Flyer]

May 13, 2021
Congratulations Bethany, Katie, Anvitha, Ally, and Eman on your graduation and best wishes for your next adventure!

April 7, 2021
Four exciting presentations from CoDeS lab members (Jisun, Lucy, Koeun) and collaborators on digital media and child development at SRCD2021! [Link]

March 25, 2021
Koeun received an Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award from the Office of Undergraduate Research at Virginia Tech!

March 3, 2021
Koeun will give a research talk on How do we perceive and learn from robots? at the Center for Humanities at Virginia Tech.

February 19, 2020
Koeun will give a research talk on Children’s Active Learning with Technology at the Center for Humanities at Virginia Tech. [Flyer]

February 27, 2020
Koeun will give an outreach presentation on Screen Time for Children, Rainbow Riders PTA Parent Lecture Series [Flyer]

March 28, 2019
Koeun will chair the Temperament and Technology Sympoisum at the 23rd Occasional Temperament Conference at Virginia Tech. Lucy will give a talk! [Website]

Nov 16, 2019
CoDeS lab members are showcasing an eye-tracking exhibit (What are you looking at? Eye-tracking technology station) at 2019 VT Science Festival. [Website]

Sep 19 - Nov 15, 2019
Temperament and Technology Sympoisum at the 23rd Occasional Temperament Conference at Virginia Tech. Submission is now open! [Website]

Oct 17, 2019
Koeun co-organized the CDS Preconference Workshop on Digital Media and Cognitive Development. Lucy & Jessica served as student volunteers and presented a poster. [Website]

Sep 2 - Oct 4, 2019
CDS Preconference Workshop on Digital Media and Cognitive Development Poster Abstract submission is now open! [Website]

Sep 20, 2019
Heather Kirkorian from UW-Madison will give a talk on Families in the Digital Age on Friday, Sep 20 at 9:30am in the Fralin Hall Auditorium [Flyer]

Sep 19, 2019
CoDeS Lab hosted Dr. Heather Kirkorian and her grad students (Seung, Meng) from UW-Madison

Aug 5, 2019
Koeun gave a talk on children and technology at Seoul National University, South Korea

April 19, 2018
Bethany, Katie, & Ashleigh presented a poster at the 2019 Dennis Dean Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Conference [Pic]

Dec 6, 2018
Koeun gave a talk on children’s transfer of learning from interactive media technology at the Center for Humanity, Virginia Tech

Oct 26, 2018
Koeun gave a talk on children’s transfer of learning from interactive media at Hollins University

Oct 15, 2018
Koeun gave a talk children’s transfer of learning from interactive media at the National Institute of Education, Singapore

Aug 10, 2018
Our lab is born!