Rate My Professor Scotty Craig

Craig's research explores the intersection of psychology, education, and technology, with specializations in emotions and cognition, vicarious learning, question-asking behaviors, multimedia educational environments, animated pedagogical agents, virtual humans, extended reality applications including augmented, mixed, and virtual reality, cognitive load management, human factors, and AI-driven learning systems. He has authored or co-authored 41 peer-reviewed journal articles, 11 book chapters, 69 conference proceedings, three edited books, and two edited journal issues. Notable publications include "Reconsidering the voice effect when learning from a virtual human" (Computers & Education, 2017), "How we trust, perceive, and learn from virtual humans: The influence of voice quality" (Computers & Education, 2020), "Trust influences perceptions of virtual humans, but not necessarily learning" (Computers & Education, 2021), and "Bridging psychology and engineering to make technology work for people" (American Psychologist, 2019). As principal or co-principal investigator, he has obtained over $2.9 million in external funding from agencies such as the NSF, DoD, and Institute of Education Sciences for projects like "Science of Learning for Education and Readiness" (DoD, 2019-2021) and "Exploring Social Learning in Collaborative Augmented Reality with Virtual Pedagogical Agents" (NSF). Craig has earned awards including the Innovation in Scholarship Award and Faculty Teaching Excellence Award from The Polytechnic School (2017 and 2018), E-Learn Best Paper Award (2005), and multiple best paper/poster awards from AI in Education conferences. He serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of STEM Education and has guest-edited special issues.