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UMUAI
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Modeling self-efficacy in intelligent tutoring systems: An inductive approach
Abstract. Self-efficacy is an individual's belief about her ability to perform well in a given situation. Because selfefficacious students are effective learners, endowing int...
Scott W. McQuiggan, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Les...
UM
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Inducing User Affect Recognition Models for Task-Oriented Environments
Accurately recognizing users’ affective states could contribute to more productive and enjoyable interactions, particularly for task-oriented learning environments. In addition t...
Sunyoung Lee, Scott W. McQuiggan, James C. Lester
ICML
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Spherical Topic Models
We introduce the Spherical Admixture Model (SAM), a Bayesian topic model for arbitrary 2 normalized data. SAM maintains the same hierarchical structure as Latent Dirichlet Allocat...
Joseph Reisinger, Austin Waters, Bryan Silverthorn...
ICANN
2007
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
A Cognitive Model That Describes the Influence of Prior Knowledge on Concept Learning
It is well known that our prior knowledge and experiences affect how we learn new concepts. Although several formal modeling attempts have been made to quantitatively describe the ...
Toshihiko Matsuka, Yasuaki Sakamoto
COMAD
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Personalized Web-page Rendering System
Personalized rendering of web pages gives the users greater control to view only what they prefer. The goal of this work is to provide a tool that will let users customize the con...
Swapna Raj Prabakara Raj, Balaraman Ravindran