Claire Christensen, PhD

Paper presentation at the 2025 Digital Media & Developing Minds Scientific Congress

Poster presentation at the 2025 Digital Media and Developing Minds Scientific Congress.

Role: Principal investigatorFunder: National Science Foundation, SRITeam: Cross-functional team of ML researchers and education researchersTimeline: 2021–presentProject Site Quick Impact Snapshot: 1,000+ videos analyzed with custom rubric13…

🍦 Join me and my dad for an ice cream break and discover how AI is revolutionizing parenting in the digital age! In this episode of Double Scoop of Research, we delve into APPROVE, a groundbreaking invention by SRI/SRI Education that automatically…

Children's media researcher Claire Christensen joins host Kori Hamilton Biagas to discuss APPROVE, an AI-powered tool designed to help teachers and parents identify valuable educational videos online.

This study will evaluate the effects of the Amira program plus the Amira for Families program on parent home literacy practices, parent-teacher relationships, and children’s early literacy skills compared to the standalone Amira program.

SRI's Claire Christensen is an expert in media for young children and explains how to empower parents to help manage screen time.

An AI-powered YouTube filter that finds educational videos for prekindergarten children, including math videos and reading videos.

This paper presents an approach for detecting educational content in online videos.

Claire shares the importance of research on the impacts of media on youth. She shares specific examples of research she has done and is doing and how that research helps inform children's programming.

NSF EAGER grant to develop a content classification engine to identify mathematics content in online videos

An educational media expert, Christensen specializes in early childhood media across a range of subjects including STEM, literacy and social-emotional learning.

This position paper describes one Chinese adaptive learning system, Squirrel AI Learning, and invites further research on adaptive learning systems in China and other Asian countries.

Online video watching is at an all-time high Toddlers and preschoolers today are spending more time watching videos on online streaming services like YouTube than in any other format (The Comon Sense Census, 2020). According to a 2020 report,…