SRCD Conference 2019 – Baltimore, Maryland | Children’s Digital Media Center

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Welcome to the Children’s Digital Media Center at Georgetown University. We are dedicated to understanding how digital media influence children’s development. Primarily through funds from the National Science Foundation and private foundations, we conduct research, train researchers, and disseminate information to policymakers and businesses about children and digital media in order to create a quality […]

Video Exercise Helps Overweight, Obese Teenagers Lose Weight

The first study demonstrating weight loss from video games that require physical activity has been published online in the journal Obesity by a Georgetown team comprising Amanda Staiano (G’09, G’10), psychology professor Sandra Calvert and Dr. Anisha Abraham. The analyses examined whether a 20-week exergame intervention could produce weight loss and improve psychosocial outcomes for […]

Toddlers Learn Early Math Skill from Elmo

In a recent study conducted at the Children’s Digital Media Center, Dr. Calvert, Alexis R. Lauricella, and Alice Ann Howard Gola examined toddlers’ ability to learn from Elmo. This MSNBC interview features Dr. Calvert discussing their finds that toddlers performed a sequencing task better when an Elmo puppet demonstrated it than when an unfamiliar puppet performed […]

NSF Addresses Youth Violence

Sandra Calvert, a Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Children’s Digital Media Center, served on a special subcommittee of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Advisory Committee (SBE/AC) of the National Science Foundation (NSF). The subcommittee examined the causes of youth violence in the aftermath of the rampage killings at Newtown, Connecticut, as […]

SRCD Conference 2019 – Baltimore, Maryland

In March of 2019, Dr. SandraCalvert, graduate student Marisa Putnam, Research Assistant Molly Biedermann and former lab member Naomi Aguiar attended the Society for Research in Child Development conference in Baltimore. They presented on the Curious George 2D to 3D Transfer Study and the Intelligent Agent study.

Molly Biedermann, Naomi Aguiar and Dr. Sandra Calvert Molly Biedermann, Naomi Aguiar, Marisa Putnam and

presenting on the Curious George Transfer Study. and Dr. Sandra Calvert at the SRCD Conference.

Naomi Aguiar presenting the Curious George Naomi Aguiar, Dr. Sandra Calvert, and Molly Biedermann

study to a conference attendee. presenting on the Intelligent Agent study.