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Refereed Book Chapters
- Chandrasekharan, S. (2016). Beyond Telling: Where New Computational Media is Taking Model-Based Reasoning. In L. Magnani and C. Casadio (eds.), Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Models and Inferences: Logical, Epistemological, and Cognitive Issues, Springer, Heidelberg.
- Chandrasekharan, S. (2014). Becoming Knowledge: Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms That Support Scientific Intuition. In Osbeck, L.M. & Held., B.S. (Eds.), Rational Intuition: Philosophical Roots, Scientific Investigations, pp. 307-337, Cambridge University Press
Refereed Journal Articles
- Date, G., Dutta, D., Chandrasekharan, S.(2019). Solving for Pattern: An Ecological Approach to Reshape the Human Building Instinct. Environmental Values, https://doi.org/10.3197/096327119X15579936382653
- Rahaman, J., Agrawal, H., Srivastava, N., Chandrasekharan, S. (2018). Recombinant enaction: manipulatives generate new procedures in the imagination, by extending and recombining action spaces. Cognitive Science, DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12518
- Chandrasekharan, S., Nersessian, N.J. (2018). Rethinking correspondence: how the process of constructing models leads to discoveries and transfer in the bioengineering sciences. Synthese, DOI 10.1007/s11229-017-1463-3
- Date, G., Chandrasekharan, S. (2017). Beyond Efficiency: Engineering for Sustainability Requires Solving for Pattern, Engineering Studies, DOI: 10.1080/19378629.2017.1410160
- Dutta, D., Chandrasekharan,S. (2017). Doing to being: farming actions in a community coalesce into pro-environment motivations and values., Environmental Education Research, 1-19.
- Pande, P., & Chandrasekharan, S. (2016): Representational competence: Towards a distributed and embodied cognition account, Studies in Science Education, 53(1), 1-43.
- Chandrasekharan, S., Nersessian, N.J. (2015). Building Cognition: the Construction of Computational Representations for Scientific Discovery. Cognitive Science, 33, 267–272.
- *Aurigemma, J., Chandrasekharan, S., Newstetter, W., Nersessian, N.J. (2013). Turning experiments into objects: the cognitive processes involved in the design of a lab-on-a-chip device. Journal of Engineering Education. 102(1), 117-140.
*All authors contributed equally - Chandrasekharan, S., Tovey, M. (2012). Sum, Quorum, Tether: design principles for external representations that promote sustainability. Pragmatics and Cognition, 20:3, 447-482.
- Chandrasekharan, S., Binsted, G. Ayres, F., Higgins, L., Welsh, T.N. (2012). Factors that Affect Action Possibility Judgments: Recent Experience with the Action and the Current Body State. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65 (5), 976-993.
- Chandrasekharan, S., Mazalek, A., Chen, Y., Nitsche, M., Ranjan, A. (2010). Ideomotor Design: using common coding theory to derive novel video game interactions. Pragmatics & Cognition, 18 (2), 313-339.
- Chandrasekharan, S., Osbeck, L. (2010). Rethinking Situatedness: Environment Structure in the Time of the Common Code. Theory & Psychology, 20 (2), 171-207.
- Chandrasekharan, S. (2009). Building to discover: a common coding model. Cognitive Science, 33 (6), 1059-1086.
- Chandrasekharan, S., Stewart T.C. (2007). The origin of epistemic structures and proto-representations. Adaptive Behavior, 15 (3), 329-353.
Download Python Code - Chandrasekharan, S. (2006). Money as Epistemic Structure. Comment on the target article “Money as tool, money as drug: The biological psychology of a strong incentive”, by Stephen E. G. Lea and Paul Webley, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29 (2), 183-184.
Conference Proceedings Book
- Chandrasekharan, S., Murthy, S., Banerjee, G., Muralidhar, A. (2015) Proceedings of Episteme 6, CinnamonTeal Publishing, Goa, India.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Makwana, M., Boity, B., P, P., Sirnoorkar, A., Chandrasekharan, S. (2019) Hands in mind: learning to write with both hands improves inhibitory control, but not attention. Proceedings of the 41st Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Canada. pdf
- Borar, P., Karnam, D., Agrawal, H., Chandrasekharan, S. (2017). Augmenting the textbook for enaction: designing media for participatory learning in classrooms. Proceedings of the 15 16th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2017, Mumbai, India.
- Mehta, M., Arif, A. S., Gupta, A., DeLong, S., Manshaei, R., Williams, G., Lalwani, M., Chandrasekharan, S., & Mazalek, A. (2016). Active pathways: Using active tangibles and interactive tabletops for collaborative modeling in systems biology. Proceedings of ISS ’16, 11th ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (pp.129-138). NY: Association for Computing Machinery.
- Karnam, D., Agrawal, H., Mishra, D., & Chandrasekharan, S. (2016). Interactive vectors for model-based reasoning. In W. Chen et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 24 th International Conference on Computers in Education (pp. 401-406). India: Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education.
- Lakshmi T.G., Narayana, S., Prasad, P., Murthy, S., & Chandrasekharan, S. (2016). Geometry-via- Gestures: Design of a gesture based application to teach 3D Geometry. In W. Chen et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 24 th International Conference on Computers in Education. India: Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (pp. 180-189). India: Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education.
- Kothiyal, A., Murthy, S., Chandrasekharan, S. (2016). “Hearts Pump and Hearts Beat”: Engineering Estimation as a form of model-based reasoning. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Learning Sciences, Singapore.
- Date, G., Chandrasekharan, S. (2016). The socio-technical connection is plastic, but only when design starts from problem identification. Proceedings of the 123rd conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, New Orleans, USA.
- Chandrasekharan, S., Date, G., Pande, P., Rahaman, J., Shaikh, R., Srivastava, A., Srivastava, N., Agrawal, H. (2015). Eye to I: Males Recognize Own Eye Movements, Females Inhibit Recognition. Proceedings of the 37th Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Pasadena, USA.
- Srivastava, A., Chandrasekharan, S. (2015). Building mental models by dissecting physical models. Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the European Science Education Research Association, Helsinki
- Dutta, D., Chandrasekharan, S. (2015). Developing a curricular framework for ecological sensibilities: Exploring the activity of urban gardening as a relevant and critical intervention. Proceedings of epiSTEME-6, Mumbai.
- Shah, P., Chandrasekharan, S. (2015). Analyzing the role of digital media in science education: A distributed cognition approach. Proceedings of epiSTEME-6, Mumbai.
- Pande,P., Shah, P., Chandrasekharan, S. (2015). How do experts and novices navigate chemistry representations – an eye-tracking investigation. Proceedings of epiSTEME-6, Mumbai.
- Date, G., Chandrasekharan. S. (2014). Beyond interfaces: understanding the process of designing grassroots technologies, to develop sustainability case studies for engineering education. Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Technology for Education, Kerala.
- Pande, P., & Chandrasekharan, S. (2014) Eye-tracking in STEM education research: limitations, experiences and possible extensions. Proceedings of The 6th IEEE International Conference on Technology for Education, Kerala.
- Majumdar, R., Kothiyal, A., Pande, P., Agarwal, H., Ranka, A., Murthy, S., & Chandrasekharan, S. (2014) The enactive equation: exploring how multiple external representations are integrated, using a fully controllable interface and eye-tracking. Proceedings of The 6th IEEE International Conference on Technology for Education, Kerala.
- Pande, P., & Chandrasekharan, S. (2014) Integration of multiple external representations in chemistry: an eye-tracking study. In Liu, C.-C. et al. (Eds.) (2014). Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computers in Education. Japan: Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education.
- Kothiyal, A., Majumdar, R., Pande, P., Agarwal, H., Ranka, A., & Chandrasekharan, S. (2014) How does representational competence develop? Explorations using a fully controllable interface and eye-tracking. In Liu, C.-C. et al. (Eds.) (2014). Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computers in Education. Japan: Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education.
- Pande, P., & Chandrasekharan, S. (2014) Representational competence in chemistry: gaze patterns and strategies of experts and novices while transforming static and dynamic representations. Proceedings of International Science Education Conference, NIE/NTU, Singapore.
- Srivastava, A., Srivastava, N., & Chandrasekharan, S. (2014, April). Measure concept-mapping, not concept-maps: Procedural analysis elucidates stages in students’ understanding of biology concepts. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Philadelphia, USA.
- Shaikh, R., Nagarjuna, G., Chandrasekharan, S. (2013). The social learning of mathematics: collaborative, constructive and distributed learning using a chat application. Proceedings of epiSTEME-5, Mumbai.
- Rahaman, J., Subramaniam, K. & Chandrasekharan, S. (2013). A network model of the mathematical concept of area. Proceedings of epiSTEME-5, Mumbai.
Refereed Conference Abstracts
- Shinde, G., Agrawal, H., Chandrasekharan, S., (2019) Recombinant building: the ability to generate and recombine navigation structures is hard to acquire using just reinforcement learning. Abstract accepted at the 41st Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Canada. pdf
- Date, G. & Chandrasekharan, S. (2017). “What role do formal structures play in the design process?” To be presented in the special track ‘Artefacts, Design Practices, and Engineering Knowledge’, at the 20th conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, June 14-17, 2017 – Darmstadt, Germany.
- Pande, P., Kothiyal, A., Majumdar, R., Agarwal, H., Chandrasekharan, S. (2017). Interactivity is not sufficient for imagination-based integration of external representations. Extended abstract accepted for presentation at the 17th Biennial EARLI Conference, Tampere, Finland.
- Dutta, D., Chandrasekharan, S., (2017). Time for Action: Towards an integrative practice-based environment education. Paper presented at Philosophy of Education Conference, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India.
- Srivastava, A., Srivastava, N., & Chandrasekharan, S. (August, 2016). Order of element placement in physical concept-mapping reveals differences in subject matter comprehension. Proceedings of the Spatial Cognition 2016, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA.
- Srivastava, A. & Chandrasekharan, S. (2016). How external representations of a biological concept change learners’ internal representations. Proceedings of the National Meeting of Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER). University of Minnesota, MN, USA.
- Date, G. & Chandrasekharan, S. (2016). Teaching for socially-engaged engineering and innovation: a case study of grassroots design. Second Graduate Seminar, School of Public Policy & Governance, TISS, Hyderabad, India.
- Dutta, D. & Chandrasekharan, S. (2016). Practice-based approaches to nurturing environmental values: A case study of an urban farming group in Mumbai. Second Graduate Seminar, School of Public Policy & Governance, TISS, Hyderabad, India
- Pande, P., Shah, P. & Chandrasekharan, S. (2015). Experts and novices navigating chemistry representations – an eye tracking study. Poster presented at the 3rd International Conference on Cognition, Bain and Computing, IIT-Gandhinagar, India.
- Pande, P., Chandrasekharan, S., & Shah, P. (2015). How experts and novices navigate chemistry representations? An eye-tracking study. Poster presented at the Gordon Research Conference on Chemistry Education Research & Practice, Bates College, Lewiston, ME, USA.
- Pande, P., Majumdar, R., Kothiyal, A., Agarwal, H., Ranka, A., Chandrasekharan, S., & Murthy, S. (2015) The enactive equation: exploring how multiple external representations are integrated, using a fully controllable interface and eye-tracking. Poster presented at the Gordon Research Conference on Visualization in Science & Education, Bates College, Lewiston, ME, USA.
- Pande, P., & Chandrasekharan, S. (2014) Eye-tracking in STEM education research: limitations, experiences and possible extensions. Proceedings of International Science Education Conference, NIE-NTU, Singapore.
- Mazalek, A., Chandrasekharan, S., Nitsche, M., Welsh, T., Clifton, P., Leighton, F. (2013). Lasting Impression: Interaction With Embodied Puppet Leads to Changes in the Way People Draw Sketches. Work in Progress paper, ACM TEI’ 13, Seventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, Barcelona, Spain.
- Rahaman, J., Subramaniam, K., Chandrasekharan, S. (2012). Exploring the Connection Between Multiplicative Thinking and the Measurement of Area. Proceedings of 12th International Congress on Mathematical Education, COEX, Seoul, Korea.
Popular Press Articles
- Chandrasekharan, S. (April, 2013). Student, teach thyself. Science Reporter.