Selected Publications

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Preprints

Initial signs of learning: Decoding newly-learned vocabulary from neural patterns in novice sign language learners
Hillis, M. E. & Kraemer, D. J. M.
bioRxiv (2025)

Neural patterns reflect conceptual grasp of novice students following first class learning in physics
Cetron, J.S.*, Hillis, M.E.*, Diamond, S. G., May, V. V., & Kraemer, D. J. M.
Under Review
*co-authors contributed equally to this work

Published

Neural patterns reflect semantic representation in novice sign language learners (Dissertation)
Hillis, M. E.
2025

Enhancing the Educational Potential of Online Movement Videos: System Development and Empirical Studies with TikTok Dance Challenges
Blanchet, J. B., Hillis, M. E., Lee, Y., Shao, Q., Zhou, X., Balkcom, D., & Kraemer, D. J. M.
Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2025)

Automatic Generation and Teaching of Dance Lessons from Video
Blanchet, J., Hillis, M.E., Lee, Y., Shao, Q., Zhou, X., Kraemer, D.J.M., Balkcom, D.
Proceedings of the 24th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems (2023)

Overlapping semantic representations of sign and speech in novice sign language learners
Hillis, M.E., Aubrey, B., Blanchet, J., Shao, Q., Balkcom, D., Zhou, X., & Kraemer, D. J. M.
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (2022)

Individual differences in the neural localization of relational networks of semantic concepts
Alfred, K. A., Hillis, M. E., & Kraemer, D. J. M.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2020)

Teaching American Sign Language in Mixed Reality
Shao, Q., Sniffen, A., Blanchet, J., Hillis, M., Shi, X., Haris, T., Liu, J., Lamberton, J., Malzkuhn, M., Quandt, L., Mahoney, J., Kraemer, D., Zhou, X., & Balkcom, D.
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (2020)