Sofia Tancredi

@sofiasensory.bsky.social

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Design-based education researcher. Embodied cognition in math learning, sensory neurodiversity, & multimodal education technologies. Postdoc at UW-Madison. She/her

email subject line from UW-Madison Research reading: Participants Needed for Cheese Tasting Research"
Flyer for the UW undergraduate symposium on Friday April 17th at Union South and the Discoveyr Building, 9:30am-5:30pm. More info at ugradsymposium.wisc.edu. The flyer shows the UW Madison logo and a woman gesturing to a research poster for an interested visitor.
A haptic module for feeling vectors with a roughly cylindrical 3d-printed base and a joystick-shaped actuated piece sticking out of the top. The actuated joystick can trace vectors on the palm.
A screenshot of a title slide with the title "Perceiving space through movement: blind and visually impaired learners' spatial explorations and imaginations with haptic technologies in STEM education co-design" with the names of authors: Sofia Tancredi at UW Madison, Colton Doherty, Jenn Tennison, and Jenna Gorlewicz from Saint Louis University, Brett Fiedler from CU-Boulder, and Dor Abrahamson from UC Berkeley. A small picture show two hands sliding 3d-printed haptics modules through a maze.
A pencil drawing of a small room into which a photocopier, a large screen, several shelves, and a small table have been crammed. Bags of food cover the table, waiting for people to eat them. On the whiteboard in the background, the words “Do you feel like you matter?” are faintly visible.
Pamphlet that says “Data Gems” and a bracelet and keychain with moveable charms used to physically track personally meaningful data.
Two women rock dynamically on wooden balance boards, generating realtime graphs on a projected display in front of them
Artist Do Ho Suh's piece "Perfect Home". Exact replicas of plugs, doorknobs and latches rendered with translucent fabric affixed to the wall of a translucent fabric room. Each item is a different color: an ornate yellow doorknob, a chunky navy door latch and thermostat, red, blue, and green plugs overlaying a green round doorknob. The items are from different homes artist Do Ho Suh has lived in at their measured exact heights.
Simple yellow flyer with abstract light blue scribble designs surrounding the title, timing, presenter headshots, and presentation titles for a conference symposium. At the top, in a dark blue box, it specifies 'hybrid symposium',below which the title states 'Charting the Learning Sciences Neuroverse: Theorizing and Building Neurodiversity-Affirming STEM Education.' Under that, the presentation titles are: 1. Reframing Neurodiversity through Community Cultural Wealth: Enactments and Expansions, Dr.Crystal Menzies, UC–Berkeley. 2. Neurodiversity as a Challenge to Neurotypical Mathematical Assumptions Dr.s Rachel Lambert, Edmund Harriss, UC–Santa Barbara. 3. Creative Potential of Neurodiverse Engineering Students: Insights from the Engineering Creativity Assessment Tool (ECAT), Dr.s Zeynep G Akdemir-Beveridge, Arash Esmaili Zaghi, & Connie Syharat, University of Connecticut, 4. Ecosystems of Belonging: Teaching Assistants’ Influence on Neurodivergent Computer Science Students’ Sense of Belonging, Dr.Rachel Bonnette, University at Buffalo, and 5. Neurodivergent Embodied STEM Learning: Stimming as an Epistemic and Interactional Resource, Dr. Sofia Tancredi, UW–Madison. In the bottom left corner, there is a photo of discussant Katherine Lewis from the University of Washington. In the bottom right corner, it lists the date and time of the event as June 12, 3-4:30pm in Helsinki, Finland at the International Society for the Learning Sciences conference. The event will also be accessible via zoom.
Screenshot of a sock puppet with googley eyes, blue and black striped sweater, and lanyard speaking into a microphone. The same image is shown upside down in miniature in the top right hand corner.
Title slide of a talk titled "Becoming the graph: changes in children's gestures following dynamic, whole-body graphing activities." Two blue-background images of graphs line the right side of the white slide: the top one shows a dashed yellow wavy graph line and a solid blue wavy line overlapping. The bottom one shows a wavy dashed line with large green stars at each peak and trough. Authors names are shown in white inside a navy box at the bottom: Sofia Tancredi at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Johnny Serrano at University of California-Berkeley.
Photograph of a tactile version of a museum artwork poster of a humanoid bird creature standing in tall grass. The bird woman has long human legs, wings, and a beak, and she is shown in profile. The different layers of the image are shown with layered paper, and the details are embroidered onto the paper with different types of stitchwork: courser feather-like stitches on her body, and long lines in the grass. The tactile version of this artwork is by Stefanie Koseff.
Event flyer. Title: Co-Design Day for Neurodiversity-Inclusive Learning. Description: An opportunity for neurodiverse high school students to collaborate with researchers at UC Berkeley to create new learning tools and technologies that make high school learning more inclusive for neurodiverse students. Event details: September 10, 2024, 4-6pm. Embodied Design Research Lab, UC Berkeley, To RSVP please email sofiatancredi@berkeley.edu. The flyer features a rainbow infinity symbol as well as a pink frame with images of a brain, cogs inside a head form, a light bulb, a book, charts, a scribble, and a puzzle.
Photograph of the sun setting behind Toronto's CN tower framed between two tall buildings, with a bustling crowd in the foreground.
Screenshot of a landing page for Balance Board Math activities. There are 6 colorful images of graphs and shapes (for example, a series of green stars on a dotted line, and a black and white grid). A toggle at the top selects one-player or two-player. Buttons at the bottom say "home". "connect P1", connect P2", and "settings."
Diagram of a a technology set-up with a projected digital display connected to a computer, which is connected to two rocking balance boards (shown in blue and orange). The display shows a cartesian grid with three graphed lines: an orange, a blue, and a black line.
Navy blue flyer with white font showing the title, abstract, and participant list for a conference symposium. There is a decorative graphic of colorful intersecting organic circular shapes in top right. Title: Learning for Every Body: Intersectional Dimensions of Embodied Learning. Abstract: As embodiment research gains popularity within the learning sciences, this symposium both leverages and critiques embodiment perspectives as they reveal the learning of marginalized students. We highlight the manifold ways in which bodies that do not conform, subscribe, or satisfy the imagined, normative ‘ideal’ standard in educational settings—be they racialized, gendered, disabled, indigenous, multilingual, queer, and/or politicized—construct and are constructed within explicitly embodied learning settings. Co-chairs: Sofia Tancredi (UC Berkeley & SFSU) & Morgan Vickery (Indiana University. Discussant: Shirin Vossoughi (Northwestern University). 14 presenters also listed.