Rate My Professor Scotty Craig

Scotty D. Craig is an Associate Professor of Human Systems Engineering within The Polytechnic School of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, a position he has held since advancing from Assistant Professor in 2018, having joined ASU in 2012. He serves as Director of Strategic Initiatives in Human Systems Engineering, Director of Research and Evaluation at the ASU Learning Engineering Institute, Co-Director of the Advanced Distributed Learning Partnership Lab, and Affiliate Faculty in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. Previously, Craig was Project Coordinator III and Research Assistant Professor at the University of Memphis from 2007 to 2012, Associate Director of Research and Development for the Advanced Distributed Learning Memphis Intelligent Tutoring Systems Center from 2009 to 2012, and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Pittsburgh Science Learning Center, University of Pittsburgh from 2005 to 2007. He earned a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology with a focus on cognitive learning from the University of Memphis in 2005, an M.S. in Psychology in 2001, and a B.A. in Psychology with minors in Anthropology and History in 1998.

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.