Ellie Lovellette
Assistant Professor, Graduate Program Director MS Computer and Information Sciences
Education
PhD Computer Science, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
MS Computer Science, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
BS Mathematics and Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Research Interest
All things Computer Science Education, AR/VR applications in mental health and recreation
Research Lab
Courses Taught
CSCI 220 - Computer Programming I
CSCI 221 - Computer Programming II
CSCI 230 - Data Structures and Algorithms
CSCI 300 - Seminar on Computing & Society
CSCI 380 - User Interface Development
CSCI 462 / CITA 495 / DATA 495 - Capstone
CSIS 672 - Human-Computer Interaction
Selected Publications
Ellie Lovellette, Dennis J Bouvier, and John Matta. 2024. Contextualization, Authenticity, and the Problem Description Effect. ACM Trans. Comput. Educ. 24, 2, Article 26 (June 2024), 32 pages.
Dennis J Bouvier, Ellie Lovellette, Eddie Antonio Santos, Brett A. Becker, Venu G. Dasigi, Jack Forden, Olga Glebova, Swaroop Joshi, Stan Kurkovsky, and Seán Russell. 2024. Teaching Programming Error Message Understanding. In Working Group Reports on 2023 ACM Conference on Global Computing Education (CompEd 2023). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–30.
Honors and Awards
Richard Crosby Distinguished Teaching Chair, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, 2023-2025