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AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Educational Data Mining: a Case Study
In this paper, we show how using data mining algorithms can help discovering pedagogically relevant knowledge contained in databases obtained from Web-based educational systems. Th...
Agathe Merceron, Kalina Yacef
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction: The Personal Exploration Rover and Museum Docents
— As an increasing number of robots have been designed to interact with people on a regular basis, research into human-robot interaction has become more widespread. At the same t...
Kristen Stubbs, Debra Bernstein, Kevin Crowley, Il...
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
EarthTutor: A Multi-Layered Approach to ITS Authoring
This paper presents the EarthTutor authoring tool, a multi-layered system designed to remove the technical hurdles preventing teachers from having full control over the structure o...
Kristen Parton, Aaron Bell, Sowmya Ramachandran
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Formation of Learning Groups by using Learner Profiles and Context Information
An important but often neglected aspect in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning is the intelligent formation of learning groups. Until recently, support for group formation wa...
Martin Muehlenbrock
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Motivating Appropriate Challenges in a Reciprocal Tutoring System
Abstract. Formalizing a student model for an educational system requires an engineering effort that is highly domain-specific. This model-specificity limits the ability to scale ...
Ari Bader-Natal, Jordan B. Pollack
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Developing a Bayes-net based student model for an External Representation Selection Tutor
Abstract. This paper describes the process by which we are constructing an intelligent tutoring system (ERST) designed to improve learners’ external representation (ER) selection...
Beate Grawemeyer, Richard Cox
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
DIANE, a diagnosis system for arithmetical problem solving
We hereby describe DIANE an environment that aims at performing an automatic diagnosis on arithmetic problems depending on the productions of the learners. This work relies on resu...
Khider Hakem, Emmanuel Sander, Jean-Marc Labat, Je...
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Adaptive Reward Mechanism for Sustainable Online Learning Community
Abundance of user contributions does not necessarily indicate sustainability of an online community. On the contrary, excessive contributions in the systems may result in informati...
Ran Cheng, Julita Vassileva
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Teaching about Dynamic Processes A Teachable Agents Approach
This paper discusses the extensions that we have made to Betty’s Brain teachable agent system to help students learn about dynamic processes in a river ecosystem. Students first ...
Ruchi Gupta, Yanna Wu, Gautam Biswas
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Advanced Capabilities for Evaluating Student Writing: Detecting Off-Topic Essays Without Topic-Specific Training
We have developed a method to identify when a student essay is off-topic, i.e. the essay does not respond to the test question topic. This task is motivated by a real-world problem...
Jill Burstein, Derrick Higgins