Lawrence Angrave

For More Information

• Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Accessibility Research Group
• ScribeAR
• ClassTranscribe

Research Interests

• Accessible Education
• Effective computer science instruction at scale

Books Authored or Co-Authored (Original Editions)

• L. C. Angrave. System Programming, a crowd-sourced wiki-book experiment, 2014 - present
• L. C. Angrave. Dynamic Visualizer. Wolfram Publishing, 1998

Selected Articles in Journals

• Zhang, Bo; Tu, Naidan; Angrave, Lawrence; Zhang, Susu; Sun, Tianjun; Tay, Louis; Li, Jian (2023). The Generalized Thurstonian Unfolding Model (GTUM): Advancing the Modeling of Forced-Choice Data. Organizational Research Methods
• N. Tu, B. Zhang, L. Angrave, T. Sun & M. Neuman "Estimating the Multidimensional Generalized Graded Unfolding Model with Covariates Using a Bayesian Approach" J. Intell. 2023, 11(8), 163
• Bhavya, B., Chen, S., Zhang, Z., Li, W., Zhai, C., Angrave, L., & Huang, Y. (2022). "Exploring collaborative caption editing to augment video-based learning." Educational technology research and development, 1-25.
• Tu, N., Zhang, B., Angrave, L., & Sun, T. (2021). bmggum: An R Package for Bayesian Estimation of the Multidimensional Generalized Graded Unfolding Model With Covariates. Applied Psychological Measurement, 45(7-8), 553-555.
• R.W. Crues, G.M. Henricks, M. Perry, S. Bhat, C. J. Anderson, N. Shaik, & L Angrave. "How do Gender, Learning Goals, and Forum Participation Predict Persistence in a Computer Science MOOC?" ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 18(4), 2017
• E. Esposito, L. C. Angrave, R. J. Gaitskell, T. J. Giles, C. Hoess, E. P. Houwman, G. L. Salmon, M. van den Putte and S. Waenninger. "Development of a Dark Matter Detector Using Series Arrays of Superconducting Tunnel Junctions." Nuclear Instruments and Methods, A370, 1996, p. 31.
• M. van den Putte, C. Hoess, T. J. Giles, L. C. Angrave, N. E. Booth, E. Esposito, R. J. Gaitskell, E. P. Houwman, G. L. Salmon and S. Waenninger. "Status of a Facility for Measuring Nuclear Recoils by Neutron Scattering from Cryogenic Particle Detectors." Nuclear Instruments and Methods, A370, 1996, p. 271.
• L. C. Angrave, N. E. Booth, R. J. Gaitskell, A. D. Hahn, G. L. Salmon and A. M. Swift. "Measurement of the Atomic Exchange Effect in Ni-63." Nuclear Instruments and Methods, A370, 1996, pp. 178-180.
• L. C. Angrave, N. E. Booth, R. J. Gaitskell, G. L. Salmon and M. R. Harston. "Measurement of the Atomic Exchange Effect in Nuclear Beta Decay." Phys. Rev. Lett., 80, 1998, p. 1610.

Articles in Conference Proceedings

• N. Purushotam, V. Parashivamurthy, Ann Fredricksen, Lawrence Angrave "Empowering Indoor Mobility: Can a New Low-cost, Wearable Navigation Aid Empower the Blind and Those with Low Vision?" Accessing Higher Ground, November 2023.

Abstracts (in print or accepted)

• A.Fredricksen,L. Angrave, L. Moran (2023) "The Future is Now: Building a Comprehensive, Compliant, Affordable Captioning Service" Accessing Higher Ground November 2023.
• H. Liu, L. Angrave, (2023) "Opportunities and barriers in implementing UDL for accessibility - data from both students and faculty perspectives" Accessing Higher Ground November 2023
• H. Liu, L. Angrave, (2022) "Understanding the needs of students with disabilities based on Universal Design of Learning and some implementations" Accessing Higher Ground November 2022
• Zhang, B., Sun., T., Anderson, C.J., Angrave, L.C., & Drasgow, F. (2021). Disentangling substantive responses from faking: Statistical and practical performance of the Bayesian Retrieve-Edit-Select model. In T.Sun & F.Drasgow Item Response Theory III: New Updates in Research and Applications.36th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Proceedings
• J. Gunderson, L. Angrave, J. Tubs (2020) "Universal Design of Lecture Capture using Illinois ClassTranscribe" Accessing Higher Ground November 2020 (Virtual)

Refereed Conference Papers and Presentations

• C. Classen, L. Angrave, 2024. "(Work In Progress) Less is More: Efficiently Fine-tuning Whisper for Educational Content" 2024 ASEE IL IN Regional Conference
• D. Zhao, M. Gopannagari,X. Ding, A. Tao, S. Varadhan, B. Dignan, C. Vogiatzis, D. Dalpiaz, B. Hardy, L. Angrave, and H. Liu (2024) "Accessibility Nuggets, Video Vignettes, and other Instructor Development approaches to foster UDL adoption and Inclusive Engineering Education", 2024 ASEE Conference
• A.M. Mehdipour, C. Classen, Y. Chen, C. Lualdi, L. Angrave (2024) "Tailor, Test, Train: Novel usage of open educational content in ScribeAR for front-end testing and AI training" ASEE IL-IN 2024 Regional Conference.
• X. Ding, M. Gopannagari,K. Sun,A.Tao,D. Zhao,S. Varadhan,B. Battleson Hardy, D. Dalpiaz, C. Vogiatzis, L. Angrave, H. Liu (2024) "Evaluation of LLMs and other machine learning methods in the analysis of qualitative survey responses for accessible engineering education research" 2024 ASEE Conference
• J. Situ, H. Cheng, S. Chen, L. Ming, D. Kirst, Q Wang, X. Su, L. Angrave, Y. Huang. "A Comparative Analysis of Emotional Experiences in Video-Based Learning Among Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Hearing College Students" ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW, submitted Jan 2024)
• Si Chen, Haocong Cheng, Jason Situ, Desiree Kirst, Suzy Su, Saumya Malhotra, Lawrence Angrave, Qi Wang, and Yun Huang. 2024. Towards Inclusive Video Commenting: Introducing Signmaku for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 24), May 11-16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 18 pages.
• Jiaxi Li, Sujit Varadhan, Aarya Bhatia, Yijun Lin, Colin P. Lualdi, Rob Kooper, Lawrence Angrave (2023) "The Inclusive Glossary: An Embedded, Interactive Approach to Accessible and Inclusive Learning" 2023 ASEE Conference
• Yun Wang, Colin P. Lualdi, Lawrence Angrave (2023) "Using Deep Learning and Augmented Reality to Improve Accessibility: Inclusive Conversations using Diarization, Captions, and Visualization" 2023 ASEE Conference
• Xiuhao Ding, Kang Sun, Zhiyuan Xiao, Sujit Varadhan, Jiaxi Li, Noah Gersich, Ananya Agarwal, Meghana Gopannagari, Chrysafis Vogiatzis, David Dalpiaz, Jennifer Amos, Lawrence Angrave, Hongye Liu (2023) "Evaluating the low-stakes assessment performance, student perceived accessibility, belongingness, and self-efficacy in connection to the use of digital notes in engineering and computing courses" Presented at 2023 ASEE Conference
• Sujit Varadhan, Xiuhao Ding, Delu Louis Zhao, Ananya Agarwal, David Dalpiaz, Chrysafis Vogiatzis, Yun Huang, Lawrence Angrave, Hongye Liu (2023) "Opportunities and Barriers to UDL-based Course Designs for Inclusive Learning in Undergraduate Engineering and other STEM courses" Presented at 2023 ASEE Conference
• Jiaxi Li, Ninghan Zhong, Rob Kooper, Lawrence Angrave (2023). System Design, Evaluation and Applications of Domain Term Extraction from Engineering Videos. ASEE IL-IN Regional Conference 2023
• Minh Duong, Emma Hartman,Pete Stenger,Anusha Ghosh, Lawrence Angrave (2023) "Work-in-Progress: Gamification of Security Education" Poster presented at ASEE 2023 IL-IN Regional Conference
• Ananya Agarwal, Xiuhao Ding, Sujit Varadhan, Lawrence Angrave, Hongye Liu (2023) "Understanding the needs of engineering and STEM students with disabilities at the University of Illinois" Poster presented at the 2023 ASEE IL-IN Regional Conference
• Hongye Liu, Jiaxi Li,Lawrence Angrave (2023) "Workshop: Improving Course Outcomes and why accessibility matters: How to add ClassTranscribe to your course" Workshop at the 2023 ASEE IL-IN Regional Conference
• Jessica Singh, Shlok Mehrotra, David Dalpiaz, Lawrence Angrave (2023) "Analyzing accuracy of Word Error Rates (WER) of Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated captions compared to professional human generated captions in engineering lecture videos" Poster presented at the 2023 ASEE IL-IN Regional Conference
• Uche Uche-Ike, Lawrence Angrave (2023) "Improving Access to Engineering Education: Unlocking text and table data in images and videos" Paper presented at the 2023 ASEE IL-IN Regional Conference
• Noah Gersich, Sujit Varadhan, Xiuhao Ding, Ananya Agarwal, Lawrence Angrave, Hongye Liu (2023) "Work-in-Progress: The development and impact of digital notes on students with and without disabilities in engineering and computing courses" Poster presented at the 2023 ASEE IL-IN Regional Conference
• Lawrence Angrave,Jiaxi Li, Ninghan Zhong (2022) "Creating TikToks, Memes, Accessible Content, and Books from Engineering Videos? First Solve the Scene Detection Problem" Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Conference
• Hongye Liu,Lawrence Angrave,David Dalpiaz,Chrysafis Vogiatzis,Zhiyuan Xiao,Sujit Varadhan,Jeremy Louie,Deepak Moparthi,Jennifer R Amos (2022). "A Digital Book Based Pedagogy to Improve Course Content Accessibility for Students with and without Disabilities in Engineering or other STEM courses (WIP)" Paper presented at ASEE 2022
• Hongye Liu, Deepak Moparthi, Lawrence Angrave, Jennifer R Amos,David Dalpiaz,Chrysafis Vogiatzis,Sujit Varadhan, Rebecca Reck, Yun Huang (2022). "Understanding the needs of students with and without disabilities for inclusive UDL-based design of Engineering courses through learning management systems" Paper presented at 2022 ASEE 2022
• D. Harsh, Z. Zhilin, E. Carrier, H. Liu, L. Angrave, K. Walther (2021) "Understanding the Needs of Students with Disabilities based on Universal Design of Learning Principles" Tapia 2021 conference panel
• Jawad M., Javid T., Lualdi C., Angrave L. (2021) "ScribeAR: Design and Use of Augmented-Reality Captioning for Inclusive Education Access." Paper presented at ASEE-IL-IN Conference, Urbana, May 2021
• Zhang Z., Sui R., Angrave L., Mahipal C., Kooper R., Bhavya B., Huang Y. (2021) "How Students Search Video Captions to Learn: An Analysis of Search Terms and Behavioral Timing Data." Paper presented 2021 ASEE Conference
• Phrabhu N, Ferreira R., Bhat S, Perry M, Angrave L (2021) "Study Partners Matter: Impacts on Inclusion and Outcomes" Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Conference
• Amos, J.R., Zhang, Z., Angrave, L., Liu, H., Shen, Y. , Vawani, K. (2021) "A UDL-based large-scale study on the needs of students with disabilities in engineering courses" Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Conference
• Amos J, Hongye L, Zhilin Z, Vanwani K, Angrave L (2021) "A UDL-based large-scale study on the needs of students with disabilities in engineering courses" Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Conference
• Bhat S, Angrave L, Perry M "Study Partners Matter: Impacts on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Outcomes" Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Conference Proceedings
• Amos J, Hongye L, Zhilin Z, Vanwani, K, Angrave L(2021) Qualitative Analysis of college students' perception of multiple representations and modalities in courses. Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference
• Zhang Z, Angrave L et al (2021) "How Students Search Video Captions to Learn: An Analysis of Search Terms and Behavioral Timing Data", Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Conference
• Angrave L., Lualdi C, Timur M and T. Javid (2021) "ScribeAR: A New Take on Augmented-Reality Captioning for Inclusive Education Access", Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference
• Mussulman, D., Jensen, K., Amos, J. R., Angrave, L. C., Flanagan, K., Fagen-Ulmschneider, W., ... & Osborn, J. (2020, June) "Measuring impact: Student and instructor experience using an online queue" Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference
• Angrave L., Jensen K., Zhang Z., Mahipal C., Mussulman M., Schmitz C., Baird, R., Liu H., Sui R., Wu M., Kooper R. (2020) "Improving student accessibility, equity, course performance, and lab skills: How introduction of ClassTranscribe is changing engineering education at the University of Illinois" Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference
• Jay, V., Henricks, G., Bosch, N., Perry, M., Bhat, S. P., Williams-Dobosz, D., Angrave, L. C., & Shaik, N. (2020) "Online discussion forum help-seeking behaviors of students underrepresented in STEM" In M. Gresalfi & I. S. Horn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2020, Vol 2. (pp. 809-810). Nashville, TN: International Society of the Learning Sciences
• W Fagen-Ulmschneider, K.Jensen, C. Schmitz, J. Amos, D. Mussulman, K. Flanagan, L. Angrave, "Adoption of an Online Queue App for Higher Education: A Case Study" Paper presented at ASEE 2019 conference
• Bosch, N., Huang, E., Angrave, L., & Perry, M. (2019). Modeling improvement for underrepresented minorities in online STEM education. In Proceedings of the 27th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2019) (pp. 327-335). New York, NY: ACM
• Angrave, L., Zhang Z., Henricks G., Mahipal C. (2019). Who Benefits? Positive Learner Outcomes From Behavioral Analytics of Online Lecture Video Viewing Using ClassTranscribe. SIGCSE 2020, Portland, OR: ACM
• Mahipal, C., & Angrave, L., & Xie, Y., & Chatterjee, B., & Wang, H., & Qian, Z. (2019, June), “What did I just miss?!” Presenting ClassTranscribe, an Automated Live-captioning and Text-searchable Lecture Video System, and Related Pedagogical Best Practices Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida.
• A. Sridhar, Y. Huang, M. Ford, C. McIntyre, O. Patel, S. Retika, A. Pan, B. Gass, W. Jang, M.K. Kang, Y.P. Malima, A. Rachwalski, A. Loeb, K. Nahrstedt, L. Angrave. (2011) "Mobile Illinois Clicker: Next Generation Educational Tool for Mobile Learning Communities." Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (pp. 2819-2824). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
• R. Sharrock, L. Angrave, E. Hamonic. "WebLinux: a scalable in-browser and client-side Linux and IDE." Learning At Scale (2018)
• N. Bosch, R. W. Crues, G. M. Henricks, M. Perry, L. Angrave, N. Shaik, S. Bhat & C. J.Anderson, (2018) "Modeling key differences in underrepresented students' interactions with an online STEM course." Proceeding of the Technology, Mind, and Society Conference
• R.W. Crues, N, Bosch, M. Perry, L. Angrave, N. Shaik, & S. Bhat,(2018). Refocusing the lens on engagement in MOOCs.Proceedings of the Fifth Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale. New York
• J. Ren, M. Hasegawa-Johnson, L Angrave. "ClassTranscribe: a New Tool with New Educational Opportunities for Student Crowdsourced College Lecture Transcription." SLaTE 2015 -- Sixth Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, September 4--5, 2015, Leipzig, Germany, Proceedings. p.179-180

Pending Articles

• Hongye Liu el al, "Understanding the needs of students to make Mathematics and other STEM Content more accessible in college Engineering courses" ASEE 2025 (accepted, preprint available)
• Hongye Liu et al. "Improving the Accessibility of Mathematical and other STEM Content in Engineering courses through Machine Learning Models" ASEE 2025 (accepted, preprint available)

Service on Department Committees

• Chair of Siebel School Executive Committee (2023 - present)
• Instructional Area Chair (2022 - 2024)
• Chair of ad hoc Teaching Faculty Promotion Committee (2022, 2023,2024)
• CS Liaison to University of Washington Access Computing Group (2020 - present)
• Broadening Participation Committee (2019 - 2022)
• Chair of Academic Appeals Committee (2019-2023)
• CS Promotion Committee For Specialized Faculty (2018 - 2020)
• Undergraduate and Graduate Student Awards committee (2015 - 2018)

Teaching Honors

• Student Success Award (Honorable Mention) (2025)
• Karen Wold Level the Learning Field Award (2022)
• Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL) Faculty Fellow (2019-2021)
• Gies College of Business RC Evans Innovation Fellow (2019-2020)
• Computer Science Fisher Award (2018)
• Computer Science Distinguished Educator Award (2014)
• Illinois Student Senate Teaching Excellence Award (2012)
• Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2012)
• Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence (2011)
• Collins Award for Innovative Teaching (2011)
• Rose Award for Teaching Excellence (2009)

Research Honors

• British Computer Society Award for Most Innovative Software (1999)

Other Honors

• ASEE New Engineering Educators Division Best Paper Award (2021)
• Engineering Open House The Spirit of Innovation Award (2023)
• Engineering Open House Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award (2023)

Recent Courses Taught

• CS 199 241 - CS 241 Honors
• CS 199 241 - Supplementary proj. for CS-241
• CS 199 341 - Supplementary proj for CS 341
• CS 199 341 - Supplementary proj. for CS-341
• CS 296 41 - Honors Course
• CS 341 (CS 241) - System Programming
• CS 498 RK1 (CS 498 RK2) - Art and Science of Web Prog