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AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Off-Task Behavior in Narrative-Centered Learning Environments
Recent years have seen increasing interest in narrative-centered learning environments. However, the same qualities that make them engaging can also introduce seductive details tha...
Jonathan P. Rowe, Scott W. McQuiggan, Jennifer L. ...
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Educational Question Answering based on Social Media Content
Iryna Gurevych, Delphine Bernhard, Kateryna Ignato...
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
An Evaluation of Sociocultural Data for Predicting Attitudinal Tendencies
Cultural profiling involves a complex interplay of multiple dimensions that are virtually impossible to wholly address. This paper explores several cultural (nationality and its as...
Emmanuel G. Blanchard, Marguerite Roy, Susanne P. ...
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Feedback Specificity and the Learning of Intercultural Communication Skills
The role of explicit feedback in learning has been studied from a variety of perspectives and in many contexts. In this paper, we examine the impact of the specificity of feedback ...
Matthew Hays, H. Chad Lane, Daniel Auerbach, Mark ...
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
To Elicit Or To Tell: Does It Matter?
Abstract. While high interactivity has been one of the main characteristics of oneon-one human tutoring, a great deal of controversy surrounds the issue of whether interactivity is...
Min Chi, Pamela W. Jordan, Kurt VanLehn, Diane J. ...
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Emotion Sensors Go To School
This paper describes the use of sensors in intelligent tutors to detect students' affective states and to embed emotional support. Using four sensors in two classroom experime...
Ivon Arroyo, David G. Cooper, Winslow Burleson, Be...
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
To Tutor or Not to Tutor: That is the Question
Intelligent tutoring systems often rely on interactive tutored problem solving to help students learn math, which requires students to work through problems step-by-step while the ...
Leena M. Razzaq, Neil T. Heffernan
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Transfer Learning and Representation Discovery in Intelligent Tutoring Systems
We describe a novel framework developed for transfer learning within reinforcement learning (RL) problems. Then we exhibit how this framework can be extended to intelligent tutorin...
Kimberly Ferguson, Beverly Park Woolf, Sridhar Mah...
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Learner Trust in Learner Model Externalisations
This paper introduces t-OLM, an open learner model to investigate user trust in a range of learner model externalisations. It was found that, while sufficient levels of use were ma...
Norasnita Ahmad, Susan Bull
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Evidence of Misunderstandings in Tutorial Dialogue and their Impact on Learning
We explore the frequency and impact of misunderstandings in an existing corpus of tutorial dialogues in which a student appears to get an interpretation that is not in line with wh...
Pamela W. Jordan, Diane J. Litman, Michael Lipschu...