| 2025 | AAAI | Learning About Algorithm Auditing in Five Steps: Scaffolding How High School Youth Can Systematically and Critically Evaluate Machine Learning Applications. | Luis Morales-Navarro, Yasmin B. Kafai, Lauren Vogelstein, Evelyn Yu, Dana Metaxa |
| 2025 | AAAI | What Can Youth Learn About Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in One Hour? Examining How Hour of Code Activities Address the Five Big Ideas of AI. | Luis Morales-Navarro, Yasmin B. Kafai, Eric Yang, Asep Suryana |
| 2024 | SIGCSE | Enduring Lessons from 'Computer Science for All' for AI Education in Schools. | Shuchi Grover, Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai, Shana V. White, Carla Strickland |
| 2024 | SIGCSE | Failure Artifact Scenarios to Understand High School Students' Growth in Troubleshooting Physical Computing Projects. | Luis Morales-Navarro, Deborah A. Fields, Deepali Barapatre, Yasmin B. Kafai |
| 2024 | SIGCSE | Not Just Training, Also Testing: High School Youths' Perspective-Taking through Peer Testing Machine Learning-Powered Applications. | Luis Morales-Navarro, Meghan Shah, Yasmin B. Kafai |
| 2022 | SIGCSE | Advancing Opportunities for CS Teachers: How To Best Support Professional Development for Experienced Teachers in K-12 CS Education. | Yasmin B. Kafai, Joanna Goode, Bryan Twarek, Deborah A. Fields, Aman Yadav, Linnea Logan |
| 2021 | ICER | Notional Machines in a Semester-long Introductory Physical Computing High School Unit. | Gayithri Jayathirtha, Yasmin B. Kafai |
| 2021 | ITiCSE | Program Comprehension with Physical Computing: A Structure, Function, and Behavior Analysis of Think-Alouds with High School Students. | Gayithri Jayathirtha, Yasmin B. Kafai |
| 2020 | SIGCSE | Looking Ahead: Professional Development Needs for Experienced CS Teachers. | Yasmin B. Kafai, Jake Baskin, Deborah A. Fields, Joanna Goode, Bryan Twarek, Aman Yadav |
| 2019 | ICER | From Theory Bias to Theory Dialogue: Embracing Cognitive, Situated, and Critical Framings of Computational Thinking in K-12 CS Education. | Yasmin B. Kafai, Chris Proctor, Debora Lui |
| 2019 | SIGCSE | Electronic Textiles in Computer Science Education: A Synthesis of Efforts to Broaden Participation, Increase Interest, and Deepen Learning. | Gayithri Jayathirtha, Yasmin B. Kafai |
| 2019 | SIGCSE | Collaborative Coding and Composing of JazzHands: Integrating the Learning of Advanced Computational Concepts with Electronic Textiles to Make Music Wearables. | Gayithri Jayathirtha, Yasmin B. Kafai, Debora A. Lui, Mia S. Shaw, Ji Yong Cho |
| 2019 | SIGCSE | Rethinking Debugging as Productive Failure for CS Education. | Yasmin B. Kafai, David DeLiema, Deborah A. Fields, Gary Lewandowski, Colleen M. Lewis |
| 2019 | SIGCSE | Stitching the Loop with Electronic Textiles: Promoting Equity in High School Students' Competencies and Perceptions of Computer Science. | Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Debora A. Lui, Justice T. Walker, Mia S. Shaw, Gayithri Jayathirtha, Tomoko M. Nakajima, Joanna Goode, Michael T. Giang |
| 2017 | FDG | The gender and race of pixels: an exploration of intersectional identity representation and construction within minecraft and its community. | Emma Anderson, Justice T. Walker, Yasmin B. Kafai, Debora Lui |
| 2017 | FDG | Plagues and people: engineering player participation and prevention in a virtual epidemic. | Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai, Michael T. Giang, Nina H. Fefferman, Jacqueline Wong |
| 2017 | SIGCSE | Understanding High School Students' Reading, Remixing, and Writing Codeable Circuits for Electronic Textiles. | Breanne K. Litts, Yasmin B. Kafai, Debora Lui, Justice T. Walker, Sari Widman |
| 2016 | CHI | Blind Spots in Youth DIY Programming: Examining Diversity in Creators, Content, and Comments within the Scratch Online Community. | Gabriela T. Richard, Yasmin B. Kafai |
| 2015 | ICER | Boys' Needlework: Understanding Gendered and Indigenous Perspectives on Computing and Crafting with Electronic Textiles. | Kristin A. Searle, Yasmin B. Kafai |
| 2015 | SIGCSE | "Maker Innovators": A Workshop for Youth Creating Responsive and Wearable Game Interfaces with Tangible and Digital Construction Toolkits (Abstract Only). | Gabriela T. Richard, Yasmin B. Kafai |
| 2015 | SIGCSE | StitchFest: Diversifying a College Hackathon to Broaden Participation and Perceptions in Computing. | Gabriela T. Richard, Yasmin B. Kafai, Barrie M. Adleberg, Orkan Telhan |
| 2014 | ICER | Diversifying high school students' views about computing with electronic textiles. | Kristin A. Searle, Deborah A. Fields, Debora A. Lui, Yasmin B. Kafai |
| 2014 | SIGCSE | Ethnocomputing with electronic textiles: culturally responsive open design to broaden participation in computing in American indian youth and communities. | Yasmin B. Kafai, Kristin A. Searle, Cristbal Martinez, Bryan M. J. Brayboy |
| 2013 | SIGCSE | The social turn in K-12 programming: moving from computational thinking to computational participation. | Yasmin B. Kafai, Quinn Burke |
| 2013 | SIGCSE | A cascading mentoring pedagogy in a CS service learning course to broaden participation and perceptions. | Yasmin B. Kafai, Jean Griffin, Quinn Burke, Michelle Slattery, Deborah A. Fields, Rita Manco Powell, Michele Grab, Susan B. Davidson, Joseph S. Sun |
| 2013 | SIGCSE | Cupcake cushions, scooby doo shirts, and soft boomboxes: e-textiles in high school to promote computational concepts, practices, and perceptions. | Yasmin B. Kafai, Kristin A. Searle, Eliot Kaplan, Deborah A. Fields, Eunkyoung Lee, Debora Lui |
| 2012 | ICMI | Connecting play: understanding multimodal participation in virtual worlds. | Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields |
| 2012 | SIGCSE | The writers' workshop for youth programmers: digital storytelling with scratch in middle school classrooms. | Quinn Burke, Yasmin B. Kafai |
| 2012 | SIGCSE | The reflective mentor: charting undergraduates' responses to computer science service learning (abstract only). | Quinn Burke, Yasmin B. Kafai, Jean Griffin, Rita Manco Powell, Michele Grab, Susan B. Davidson, Joseph S. Sun |
| 2012 | SIGCSE | Debuggems to assess student learning in e-textiles (abstract only). | Deborah A. Fields, Kristin A. Searle, Yasmin B. Kafai, Hannah S. Min |
| 2011 | ICCE | Collaborative Agency in Youth Online Creative Production in Scratch. | Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, William Q. Burke |
| 2011 | ICCE | Collaboration by Choice: Youth Online Creative Collabs in Scratch. | Yasmin B. Kafai, Ricarose Roque, Deborah A. Fields, Andrs Monroy-Hernndez |
| 2009 | DIGRA | What Videogame Making Can Teach Us About Access and Ethics in Participatory Culture. | Yasmin B. Kafai, William Q. Burke, Deborah A. Fields |
| 2009 | DIGRA | Transgressive Gender Play: Profiles and Portraits of Girl Players in a Tween Virtual World. | Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Michael T. Giang |
| 2009 | DIGRA | Boys' Play in the Fourth Space: Freedom of Movements in a Tween Virtual World. | Kristin A. Searle, Yasmin B. Kafai |
| 2009 | FDG | Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: new perspectives on girls and games. | Yasmin B. Kafai |
| 2008 | SIGCSE | Programming by choice: urban youth learning programming with scratch. | John H. Maloney, Kylie A. Peppler, Yasmin B. Kafai, Mitchel Resnick, Natalie Rusk |
| 2007 | DIGRA | Stealing from Grandma or Generating Cultural Knowledge? Contestations and Effects of Cheats in a Tween Virtual World. | Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai |
| 2007 | DIGRA | "Blacks Deserve Bodies Too!" Design and Discussion about Diversity and Race in a Tween Online World. | Yasmin B. Kafai, Melissa S. Cook, Deborah A. Fields |
| 2007 | DIGRA | Your Second Selves: Resources, Agency, and Constraints in Avatar Designs and Identity Play in a Tween Virtual World. | Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Melissa S. Cook |
| 2007 | DIGRA | What Videogame Making Can Teach Us About Literacy and Learning: Alternative Pathways into Participatory Culture. | Kylie A. Peppler, Yasmin B. Kafai |
| 2005 | DIGRA | "A Totally Different World": Playing and Learning in Multi-User Virtual Environments. | Linda Kao, Cathleen Galas, Yasmin B. Kafai |
| 2005 | DIGRA | What happens if you catch Whypox? Children's learning experiences of infectious disease in a multi-user virtual environment. | Nina Neulight, Yasmin B. Kafai |
| 1997 | SIGGRAPH | The implications of a theory of play for the design of computer toys (panel). | Bill Kolomyjec, Justine Cassell, Yasmin B. Kafai, Mary Williamson |