Publications

@inproceedings{yan2026integrating,

title = {Integrating Large Language Models with Cybersecurity Education},

author = {Wei Yan and Soumiki Chattopadhyay and Lan Zhang and Ashish Amresh},

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 57th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2},

pages = {1589–1590},

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pubstate = {published},

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@inproceedings{yan2025could,

title = {What Could Impact Indigenous-serving Teachers' Computing Integration After A Culturally Responsive Professional Development?},

author = {Wei Yan and Ashish Amresh and Jeffrey Allen Hovermill and Paige Prescott},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2},

pages = {1667–1668},

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pubstate = {published},

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}

@inproceedings{pokkula2025gaze,

title = {Gaze Entropy as a Measure of Player Performance and Its Correlation with Focus and Attention},

author = {Saroj Kaashyap Pokkula and Ashish Amresh and Jared Duval},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications},

pages = {1–6},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{yan2025bridging,

title = {Bridging Culture and Code: Culturally Responsive Computing Through Teacher-Led Curriculum Design},

author = {Wei Yan and Ashish Amresh and Priyanka Parekh and Paige Prescott},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research V. 2},

pages = {4–4},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{amresh2024educational,

title = {Educational Burst Games-A New Approach for Improving Learner Proficiency},

author = {Ashish Amresh and Vipin Verma and Rahul Salla},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

booktitle = {57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{hovermill2024recommended,

title = {Recommended Practices for (Native American) STEM Partnerships},

author = {Jeff Hovermill and Ashish Amresh and Paige Prescott},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

booktitle = {Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference},

pages = {567–570},

organization = {Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)},

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pubstate = {published},

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}

@inproceedings{prescott2024let,

title = {Let’s Talk Code: A flexible professional development and implementation in computer science to expand access to CS in underserved communities},

author = {Paige Prescott and Jeff Hovermill and Conrad Begay and Ashish Amresh and Wei Yan},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

booktitle = {Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference},

pages = {2450–2452},

organization = {Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{yan2024teaching,

title = {Teaching computing in Indigenous schools: an early experience report},

author = {Wei Yan and Jeffrey Allen Hovermill and Paige Prescott and Ashish Amresh},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 on RESPECT Annual Conference},

pages = {201–205},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{hagemann2024designing,

title = {Designing a Resilience Resource Database with Hopi Behavioral Health Services},

author = {Shelby Hagemann and Ann D Collier and Laverne Dallas and Marissa Adams and Darold Joseph and Ashish Amresh and Morgan Vigil-Hayes},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

booktitle = {Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference},

pages = {181–184},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{memarian2024board,

title = {Board 335: Native American Teachers’ Pre-post Participation Experiences in Online Coding Curriculum and Professional Learning},

author = {Bahar Memarian and Ashish Amresh and Jeffrey Hovermill},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

booktitle = {2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{panguluri2024applying,

title = {Applying the uMars Scale to Evaluate a Mindfulness-based mHealth App},

author = {Lakshmi Panguluri and Morgan Vigi-Hayes and Ashish Amresh},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

booktitle = {2024 IEEE 12th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH)},

pages = {1–5},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{singal2024pilot,

title = {A Pilot Study of a Personalized Just-in-Time Adaptive mHealth App to Promote Adherence and Protocol Effect Size for Pediatric Anxiety Disorders},

author = {Vishakha Singal and Kevin Gary and Armando Pina and Ryan Stoll and Ashish Amresh},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

booktitle = {2024 IEEE 12th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH)},

pages = {1–8},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{smith2024research,

title = {Research needs in human-autonomy teaming: Thematic analysis of priority features for testbed development},

author = {Mason O Smith and Sunny Amatya and Ashish Amresh and Jamie Gorman and Matthew Johnson and Nancy Cooke and Wenlong Zhang},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

booktitle = {2024 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN)},

pages = {1183–1190},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{amresh2023combining,

title = {Combining Game-Based and Inquiry-Oriented Learning for Teaching Linear Algebra},

author = {Ashish Amresh and Vipin Verma and Michelle Zandieh},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{hovermill2023participatoryb,

title = {Participatory Design Based Research with Native American serving Middle Schools},

author = {Jeff Hovermill and Ashish Amresh and Emily Evans},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference},

pages = {377–382},

organization = {Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{amresh2023integratingb,

title = {Integrating Reinforcement AI Into the Design of Educational Games},

author = {Ashish Amresh},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Game-Based Learning: ECGBL 2023},

organization = {Academic Conferences and publishing limited},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{kintscher2023measuringb,

title = {Measuring and Comparing Collaborative Visualization Behaviors in Desktop and Augmented Reality Environments},

author = {Michael Kintscher and Jinbin Huang and Anjana Arunkumar and Ashish Amresh and Chris Bryan},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 29th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology},

pages = {1–11},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{amresh2023leveling,

title = {Leveling Up Education: Harnessing Generative AI for Game-Based Learning},

author = {Ashish Amresh},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM India Compute Conference},

pages = {4–4},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{amresh2023minecraft,

title = {A Minecraft Based Simulated Task Environment for Human AI Teaming},

author = {Ashish Amresh and Nancy Cooke and Adam Fouse},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents},

pages = {1–3},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{amresh2023communication,

title = {Communication Styles in Human-AI Teams Tasked with Urban Search and Rescue Missions},

author = {Ashish Amresh and Nancy Cooke and Adam Fouse and Rahul Salla},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {Interservice/industry training, simulation, and education conference (I/ITSEC)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{verma2022contentb,

title = {Content Agnostic Game Engineering: Impact of Stealth Assessment and Content Order on Player Engagement},

author = {Vipin Verma and Scotty D Craig and Ashish Amresh and Ajay Bansal},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2021, Volume 3},

pages = {455–470},

organization = {Springer International Publishing},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{orth2021designingc,

title = {Designing for exploration and exploitation in experimental search and rescue scenarios},

author = {Dylan A Orth and Michael Buchanan and Ashish Amresh and Cassady Smith and Glenn Lematta and Nancy Cooke and Adam Fouse and Samantha Dubrow},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting},

volume = {65},

number = {1},

pages = {720–725},

organization = {SAGE Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{verma2021validityc,

title = {Validity of a content agnostic game based stealth assessment},

author = {Vipin Verma and Ashish Amresh and Scotty D Craig and Ajay Bansal},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance},

pages = {121–130},

organization = {Springer International Publishing Cham},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{verma2020predictingc,

title = {Predicting real-time affective states by modeling facial emotions captured during educational video game play},

author = {Vipin Verma and Hansol Rheem and Ashish Amresh and Scotty D Craig and Ajay Bansal},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

booktitle = {International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance},

pages = {447–452},

organization = {Springer International Publishing Cham},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{amresh2019evaluatingc,

title = {Evaluating gamescapes and simapps as effective classroom teaching tools},

author = {Ashish Amresh and Vipin Verma and Tyler Baron and Rahul Salla and David Clarke and Doug Beckwith},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {13th International Conference on Game Based Learning, ECGBL 2019},

pages = {22–31},

organization = {Dechema eV},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{amresh2019gamec,

title = {A game based intervention to promote HPV vaccination among adolescents},

author = {Ashish Amresh and Angela Chia-Chen and Chen Tyler Baron},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {2019 IEEE 7th international conference on serious games and applications for health (SeGAH)},

pages = {1–6},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{tadayon2018realc,

title = {Real-time stealth intervention for motor learning using player flow-state},

author = {Ramin Tadayon and Ashish Amresh and Troy McDaniel and Sethuraman Panchanathan},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

booktitle = {2018 IEEE 6th international conference on serious games and applications for health (SeGAH)},

pages = {1–8},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{ramakrishna2018motivatingc,

title = {Motivating students and teachers in Sustainability through a Design Village},

author = {Pushpa Ramakrishna and Ashish Amresh and Mary Cavanagh and Carole Greenes},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

booktitle = {EdMedia+ Innovate Learning},

pages = {1752–1761},

organization = {Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{zandieh2018drawingc,

title = {Drawing on Three Fields of Education Research to Frame the Development of Digital Games for Inquiry-Oriented Linear Algebra},

author = {Michelle Zandieh and David Plaxco and Caro Williams-Peirce and Ashish Amresh},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

booktitle = {Twenty-First Annual Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education},

pages = {1270–1280},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{zandieh2018usingc,

title = {Using Three Fields of Education Research to Frame the Development of Digital Games},

author = {Michelle Zandieh and David Plaxco and Caro Williams-Peirce and Ashish Amresh},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

booktitle = {42nd Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{thomson2017aspirac,

title = {Aspira: Employing a serious game in an mHealth app to improve asthma outcomes},

author = {Jamie Thomson and Chris Hass and Ivor Horn and Elizabeth Kleine and Stephanie Mitchell and Kevin Gary and Ishrat Ahmed and Derek Hamel and Ashish Amresh},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

booktitle = {2017 IEEE 5th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH)},

pages = {1–7},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}