Ph.D Thesis
Tom Lauwers, Aligning Capabilities of Interactive Educational Tools to Learner Goals, Carnegie Mellon, April 2010.
Journal Publications
N. Kalra, T. Lauwers, D. Dewey, T. Stepleton, M.B. Dias, Design of a Braille Writing Tutor to Combat Illiteracy. Information Systems Frontiers, volume 11, issue 2, 2009.
Conference Publications
Emily Hamner, Tom Lauwers, and Debra Bernstein, "The Debugging Task: Evaluating a Robotics Design Workshop", AAAI Spring Symposium on Educational Robotics and Beyond: Design and Evaluation, March 2010.
Tom Lauwers, Emily Hamner, and Illah Nourbakhsh, A strategy for collaborative outreach: lessons from the CSbots project, Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education, pg 315-319, March 2010.
Tom Lauwers, Illah Nourbakhsh, and Emily Hamner, CSbots: Design and Deployment of a Robot Designed for the CS1 Classroom, SIGCSE Proceedings, March 2009.
Emily Hamner, Tom Lauwers, Debra Bernstein, Illah Nourbakhsh, and Carl Francis DiSalvo, Robot Diaries: Broadening Participation in the Computer Science Pipeline through Social Technical Exploration, AAAI Spring Symposium on Using AI to Motivate Greater Participation in Computer Science, March, 2008
Nidhi Kalra, Tom Lauwers, Daniel Dewey, Thomas Stepleton, and M Bernardine Dias, Iterative Design of A Braille Writing Tutor to Combat Illiteracy, Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, December, 2007.
Tom Lauwers and Illah Nourbakhsh, Informing curricular design by surveying cs1 educators, in Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment, 2007.
Illah Nourbakhsh, Emily Hamner, Tom Lauwers, Carl Francis DiSalvo, and Debra Bernstein, TeRK: A Flexible Tool for Science and Technology Education, Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium on Robots and Robot Venues: Resources for AI Education, March, 2007.
Nidhi Kalra, Tom Lauwers, and M Bernardine Dias, A Braille Writing Tutor to Combat Illiteracy in Developing Communities, AI in ICT for Development Workshop, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, January, 2007.
Illah Nourbakhsh, Emily Hamner, Tom Lauwers, Debra Bernstein, and Carl Francis DiSalvo, A Roadmap for Technology Literacy and a Vehicle for Getting There: Educational Robotics and the TeRK Project, Proceedings of IEEE RO-MAN 2006, September, 2006.
Tom Lauwers, George A. Kantor, and Ralph Hollis, A Dynamically Stable Single-Wheeled Mobile Robot with Inverse Mouse-Ball Drive, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '06), May, 2006, pp. 2884 - 2889.
Tom Lauwers, George A. Kantor, and Ralph Hollis, One is Enough!, Proc. Int'l. Symp. for Robotics Research, October, 2005.
Tom Lauwers, Z.K. Edmondson, and Ralph Hollis, Free-roaming planar motors: toward autonomous precision planar mobile robots, Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '04), May, 2004, pp. 4498 - 4503.
Technical Reports
Tom Lauwers, Illah Nourbakhsh, and Emily Hamner, CSbots: A case study in introducing educational technology to a classroom setting, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-08-41, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2008
Emily Hamner, Tom Lauwers, Debra Bernstein, Kristen Stubbs, Kevin Crowley, and Illah Nourbakhsh, Robot Diaries Interim Project Report: Development of a Technology Program for Middle School Girls, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-08-25, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2008