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AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Can relaxation exercises improve learning?
Students use both domain-dependent strategies (such as seeking specific domain help) and domain-independent strategies (such as relaxation exercises) to help regulate their affecti...
Mohd Zaliman Yusoff, Benedict du Boulay
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Structuring Learning/Instructional Strategies through a State-based Modeling
This study, through the ontological engineering approach, aims at building a conceptual basis that encourages instructional designers in better understanding of learning/instructio...
Yusuke Hayashi, Jacqueline Bourdeau, Riichiro Mizo...
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Intelligent Support for Exploratory Environments
In the last years, there is a rising interest in exploratory learning environments, due to their positive effects on learning. However, their lack of structure makes the provision...
Manolis Mavrikis, Sergio Gutiérrez Santos, ...
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
The Extensible Problem-Specific Tutor (xPST): Evaluation of an API for Tutoring on Existing Interfaces
The Extensible Problem-Specific Tutor (xPST) system was created to facilitate the creation of intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) on existing software and web-based interfaces. Thi...
Stephen B. Gilbert, Stephen Blessing, Sateesh Koda...
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Scaffolding Motivation and Metacognition in Learning Programming
This paper explores the role that feedback based on past actions and motivational states of the learner can have in a motivationally and metacognitively aware Intelligent Tutoring ...
Alison Hull, Benedict du Boulay
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Modeling Task-Based vs. Affect-based Feedback Behavior in Pedagogical Agents: An Inductive Approach
Affect has been the subject of increasing attention in cognitive accounts of learning. Many intelligent tutoring systems now seek to adapt pedagogy to student affective and motivat...
Jennifer L. Robison, Scott W. McQuiggan, James C. ...
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Assessing Student Paraphrases Using Lexical Semantics and Word Weighting
We present in this paper an approach to assessing student paraphrases in the intelligent tutoring system iSTART. The approach is based on measuring the semantic similarity between ...
Vasile Rus, Mihai C. Lintean, Arthur C. Graesser, ...
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Intelligent Support for Inquiry Learning from Images: A Learning Scenario and Tool
Inquiry learning involves the learner acquiring new concepts and skills by means of carrying out an investigation. Some previous studies have looked into how these learning activit...
Paul Mulholland, Zdenek Zdráhal, Jan Abraha...
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Interaction Preferences and Learning in an Inspectable Learner Model for Language
We present an inspectable learner model to prompt noticing in language learning, considering interaction preferences. Four patterns of model inspection were seen, but most students...
Gheida Shahrour, Susan Bull
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Toward Scenario Adaptation for Learning
Abstract. This paper presents a methodology for automatically customizing a scenario to suit a learner’s abilities, needs, or goals. Training scenarios are often utilized to give...
James Niehaus, Mark Riedl