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AIED
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Exploiting Partial Problem Spaces Learned from Users' Interactions to Provide Key Tutoring Services in Procedural and Ill-Define
In previous works, we showed how sequential pattern mining can be used to extract a partial problem space from logged user interactions for a procedural and ill-defined domain wher...
Philippe Fournier-Viger, Roger Nkambou, Engelbert ...
AIED
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Investigating the Effects of Social Goals in a Negotiation Game with Virtual Humans
Educational games may be particularly suited to teaching social learning skills with virtual humans. We investigate the importance of social goals and engaging social interactions ...
Amy Ogan, Vincent Aleven, Christopher Jones
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Modeling Helping Behavior in an Intelligent Tutor for Peer Tutoring
Giving effective help is an important collaborative skill that leads to improved learning for both the help-giver and help-receiver. Adding intelligent tutoring to student interact...
Erin Walker, Nikol Rummel, Kenneth R. Koedinger
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Can Virtual Human Build Rapport and Promote Learning?
Research show that teacher's nonverbal immediacy can have a positive impact on student's cognitive learning and affect [31]. This paper investigates the effectiveness of ...
Ning Wang, Jonathan Gratch
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Antecedent-Consequent Relationships and Cyclical Patterns between Affective States and Problem Solving Outcomes
We explored the complex interplay between students' affective states and problem solving outcomes. We conducted a study where 41 students solved 28 analytical reasoning proble...
Sidney K. D'Mello, Natalie K. Person, Blair Lehman
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Towards Automatic Assessment for Project Based Learning Groups
Project course instructors routinely perform their formal assessments based on impressions formed from their mostly indirect experience with the groups they oversee. Nevertheless, ...
Gahgene Gweon, Rohit Kumar, Soojin Jun, Carolyn Pe...
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Evaluating an Authoring Tool for Mini-Dialogs
In order to facilitate efficient creation of instructional content for high proficiency language learning systems, we investigate the use of utterance templates through an intuitiv...
Rohit Kumar, Alicia Sagae, W. Lewis Johnson
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
An experiment to measure learning in a collaborative assessment environment
The SIETTE collaborative environment allows students to take tests together in small groups. Individuals can communicate and hold discussions to solve test questions. This paper de...
Ricardo Conejo, Beatriz Barros, Eduardo Guzm&aacut...
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Cohesion Relationships in Tutorial Dialogue as Predictors of Affective States
We explored the possibility of predicting learners’ affective states (boredom, flow/engagement, confusion, and frustration) by monitoring variations in the cohesiveness of tutori...
Sidney K. D'Mello, Nia Dowell, Arthur C. Graesser