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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
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
The impact of frustration-mitigating messages delivered by an interface agent
Amy L. Baylor, Daniel Warren, Sanghoon Park, E. Sh...
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
"Be bold and take a challenge": Could motivational strategies improve help-seeking?
We are exploring whether the use of facilities aimed at improving the learner’s motivation has an effect on learning food-chains and food-webs, but also on help-seeking behaviour...
Genaro Rebolledo-Mendez, Benedict du Boulay, Rosem...
AI
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Towards an Ontology-Based Spatial Clustering Framework
Spatial clustering is an important topic in knowledge discovery research. However, most clustering methods do not consider semantic information during the clustering process. In th...
Xin Wang, Howard J. Hamilton
AI
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Comparative Study of Two Density-Based Spatial Clustering Algorithms for Very Large Datasets
Spatial clustering is an active research area in spatial data mining with various methods reported. In this paper, we compare two density-based methods, DBSCAN and DBRS. First, we ...
Xin Wang, Howard J. Hamilton