HCD in the Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Publications

Sánchez‐Gilbert, L., Shehab, S., & Abbott, A. (2025). Examining the impact of human‐centered design in the language curriculum: A new framework for medical Spanish. Foreign Language Annals, 58(4), 799-819.

James, C.L. (2025). The heart of the matter: Addressing college composition problems of practice in a research practice partnership. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of the  International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) Annual meeting. Helsinki, Finland.

James, C. L., & McCarthey, S. J. (2024). Reimagining writing: Integrating wicked problems into secondary writing instruction through a research practice partnership. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 68, 263-274

James, C. L., & Shehab, S. (2024). Blending HCD with multicultural education: Lessons learned from co-designing an intervention. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) Annual Meeting. New York, United States

James, C.L. (2023). A journey of becoming: Tracing pre-service English teachers’ practice. [Doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign]. IDEALS. 

James, C.L., Laixely, J. & Shehab, S. (2023). Tracing a path toward social empathy: The development of the multicultural awareness and empathy orientations model. In (Eds). Proceedings of the 17th International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) Annual Meeting. Montreal, Canada

James, C.L., Shehab, S. & Rost, G. (2021). Developing social empathy through human-centered design: The iterative journey of designing an instructional booklet for pre-service teachers. In E. de Vries, Y. Hod, & J. Ahn (Eds). Proceedings of the 15th International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) Annual Meeting. Bochum, Germany.

Conference Presentations

James, C.L., Kaczmarczyk-Smith, W., & Kinzy, D. . (2026, April). Invention and Revision: Our DBR Journey in Iteratively Designing Professional Development for College Composition Instructors. AERA Annual Conference Los Angeles, CA.

James, C.L., Kaczmarczyk-Smith, W., Kinzy, D., Moss, A.P. & Gaffney, K. (2026, March). Taking up wicked problems in college composition: Lessons learned from integrating human-centered design as part of a research-practice partnership. CCCC Annual Meeting. Cleveland, OH.

James, C.L., Kaczmarczyk-Smith, W., & Kinzy, D. ( 2025, December). Addressing a "wicked" problem of practice: Examining college composition instructors' uptake of human-centered design as pedagogy. LRA Annual Conference Las Vegas, NV.

James, C.L., Kaczmarczyk-Smith, W., & Moss, A.P. “The heart of the matter”: Addressing college composition problems of practice in a research practice partnership. In A. Rajala, A. Cortez, R. Hofmann, A. Jornet, H. Lotz-Sisitka & L. Markauskaite (Eds.) Proceeds of the 19th International Conference of the Learning Sciences -ICLS 2025. Helsinki, Finland: International Society of the Learning Sciences, pp. 1530-1534.

Kaczmarczyk-Smith. W., Moss, A.P., James, C.L., Matresse, E. (2025, April 23-27). Creating community and solving problems of practice: Examining PLCs’ impact on college composition instructors. [Poster] American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Denverl, CO, United States.

James, C. L., & Shehab, S. (2024, April 11-14). Teaching for social empathy: Lessons learned from instructors in a social justice in education course [Paper session]. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia and Virtual, PA, United States. 

Shehab, S., Sanchez, L., & Abbott, A. (2023, April 13-16). The impact of Human-Centered Design on students’ learning in a language for health professions course [Roundtable session]. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Chicago and Virtual, IL, United States. 

James, C.L., Laixely, J. & Shehab, S. (2023, April 13-16). Journeys toward empathy: The impact of a social empathy focused intervention on preservice teachers [Roundtable Session] American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Chicago and Virtual, IL, United States. 

Shehab, S. (2023, March 30-31). Lessons learned from integrating Human-Centered Design in community placement assignments of existing social sciences and humanities courses [Conference Session]. Design Forge, Elon University, NC, United States. 

James, C.L. (2022, April 21-26). “Wicked problems” as writing tasks: The impact of a design-based intervention on secondary English classes [Paper Session]. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA and Virtual, United States. 

James, C.L. & Shehab, S. (2022, April 21-26). Designing instructional tools to engage pre-service teachers in human-centered design to develop social empathy [Poster session]. As part of Interactive Poster Session: Reconceptualizing designerly thinking and participatory design with students, teachers, administrators, and community members. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA and Virtual, United States.