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AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Positive and negative verbal feedback for Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Abstract. We built three different versions of an ITS on a letter pattern extrapolation task: in one version, students only receive color-coded feedback; in the second, they receiv...
Barbara Di Eugenio, Xin Lu, Trina C. Kershaw, Andr...
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Motivating Learners by Nurturing Animal Companions: My-Pet and Our-Pet
This paper reports a pilot study of how to utilize simulated animal companions to encourage students to pay more effort in their study in the classroom environment. A class of stud...
Zhi-Hong Chen, Yi-Chan Deng, Chih-Yueh Chou, Tak-W...
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Relation-based heuristic diffusion framework for LOM generation
Learning Object Metadata (LOM) intends to facilitate the retrieval and reuse of learning material. However, the fastidious task of authoring them limits their use. Motivated by thi...
Olivier Motelet
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Authoring plug-in tutor agents by demonstration: Rapid, rapid tutor development
We combined two existing methods for rapid tutor development: “plug-in tutor agents” [6] and an authoring tool suite (CTAT) that supports the creation of tutors “by demonstra...
Vincent Aleven, Carolyn Penstein Rosé
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
The Use of Qualitative Reasoning Models of Interactions between Populations to Support Causal Reasoning of Deaf Students
Making inferences is crucial for understanding the world. The school may develop such skills but there are few formal opportunities for that. This paper describes an experiment de...
Paulo Salles, Heloisa Lima-Salles, Bert Bredeweg
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