
Amon D Millner
Personal
Affiliation	I am a Computing Innovation Fellow at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Needham, MA. I am teaching and doing postdoctoral research as a part of the Computers and Cognition Lab. I am also a Visiting Scientist at the MIT Media Lab, where I received my Ph.D. from the Lifelong Kindergarten Research Group
Twitter	admillner
email	amonmillner [ at ] acm [dot] org
phone	617 [dash] 863 [dash] 7799
Projects
I'm one of the designers of the Scratch programming language. I also work on Modkit.	I lead the Scratch Sensor Board team.
Check out my PhD dissertation to read about how I spent my time at the Media Lab.	My resume/CV highlights what I've been up to in recent years.
Publications
Journal Article	Resnick, M., Maloney, J., Monroy-Hernandez, A., Rusk, N., Eastmond, E., Brennan, K., Millner, A., Rosenbaum, E., Silver, J., Silverman, B., Kafai, Y. (2009). "Scratch: Programming for All." Communications of the ACM.

Refereed Conference Publications	Millner, A., Baafi, E. (2011). Modkit: Blending and Extending Approachable Platforms for Creating Computer Programs and Interactive Objects. Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Interaction Design and Children conference. Ann Arbor, MI
	Baafi, E., Millner, A. (2011). A Toolkit for Tinkering with Tangibles & Connecting Communities. Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Tangible Embedded & Embodied Interaction conference. Madeira, Portugal.
	Millner, A. (2008). Supporting Children as they Program to Make Physical and Virtual Objects Interact. Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC) conference. Evanston, IL.
	Barron, B., Kafai, Y., Josephs, D., Pinkard, N., Resnick, M., Martin, C., Schatz, C., Shapiro, B., Millner, A., Peppler, K., Chiu, G., and Desai, S. (2006). Clubs, Homes, and Online Communities as Contexts for Engaging Youth in Technology Fluency Building Activities. Symposium and proceedings published in the 2006 International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS). Bloomington, IN.
	Zigelbaum, J., Millner, A., Desai, B. & Ishii, H. (2006, April 22-27, 2006). Bodybeats: Wholebody, musical interfaces for children. Work-in-progress (poster) extended abstract in the proceedings of the 2006 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Book Chapters	Millner, A. (2009). Interface Designs with Hook-ups. The Computer Clubhouse: Constructionism and Creativity in Youth Communities. Kafai, Y. Peppler, K., Chapman, R. eds. Teachers College Press. New York, NY.
Book Chapters	Millner, A., Daily, S. (2008). Creating an Educational Ecosystem for Design, Personal Fabrication, and Invention. Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators. Kimble, C. & Hildreth, P., eds. Information Age Publishing. Charlotte, NC, USA.

Other Contributions	Millner, A. (2010). Computer as Chalk: Cultivating and Sustaining Communities of Youth as Designers of Tangible User Interfaces. Media Lab doctoral dissertation. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
	Millner, A. (2005). Hook-ups: How youth learn through creating physical computer interfaces. Media Lab master's thesis. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
	Millner, A. (2004). The hook-ups initiative: How youth can learn by creating their own computer interfaces and programs. SIGGROUP Bull., 24 (3), 85-89.
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