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AIPS
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Visual Programming of Plan Dynamics Using Constraints and Landmarks
In recent years, there has been considerable interest in the use of planning techniques in new media and computer games. Many traditional planning notions no longer apply in the c...
Julie Porteous, Jonathan Teutenberg, David Pizzi, ...
AIPS
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Effective Heuristics and Belief Tracking for Planning with Incomplete Information
Conformant planning can be formulated as a path-finding problem in belief space where the two main challenges are the heuristics to guide the search, and the representation and u...
Alexandre Albore, Miquel Ramírez, Hector Ge...
AIPS
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Planning to Perceive: Exploiting Mobility for Robust Object Detection
Consider the task of a mobile robot autonomously navigating through an environment while detecting and mapping objects of interest using a noisy object detector. The robot must re...
Javier Vélez, Garrett Hemann, Albert S. Hua...
AIED
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
Predicting Human Scores of Essay Quality Using Computational Indices of Linguistic and Textual Features
This study assesses the potential for computational indices to predict human ratings of essay quality. The results demonstrate that linguistic indices related to type counts, given...
Scott A. Crossley, Rod Roscoe, Danielle S. McNamar...
AIED
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
Short and Long Term Benefits of Enjoyment and Learning within a Serious Game
Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) have been used for decades to teach students domain content or strategies. ITSs often struggle to maintain students’ interest and sustain a pr...
G. Tanner Jackson, Kyle B. Dempsey, Danielle S. Mc...
AIED
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
Carelessness and Goal Orientation in a Science Microworld
In this paper, we study the relationship between goal orientation within a science inquiry learning environment for middle school students and carelessness, i.e., not demonstrating...
Arnon Hershkovitz, Michael Wixon, Ryan Shaun Joaze...
AIED
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
Peering Inside Peer Review with Bayesian Models
Abstract. Instructors and students would benefit more from computersupported peer review, if instructors received information on how well students have understood the conceptual is...
Ilya M. Goldin, Kevin D. Ashley
AIED
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
When Does Disengagement Correlate with Learning in Spoken Dialog Computer Tutoring?
We investigate whether an overall student disengagement label and six different labels of disengagement type are predictive of learning in a spoken dialog computer tutoring corpus...
Katherine Forbes-Riley, Diane J. Litman
AIED
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
Observations of Collaboration in Cognitive Tutor Use in Latin America
Cognitive tutoring systems have proven to be effective at improving mathematics learning in economically developed countries, but little is known about how teachers and students us...
Erin Walker, Amy Ogan, Ryan Shaun Joazeiro de Bake...