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AIED
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Who Says Three's a Crowd? Using a Cognitive Tutor to Support Peer Tutoring
Adding student collaboration to an intelligent tutoring system could leverage the benefits of both approaches. We have incorporated a mutual peer tutoring script, where students of...
Erin Walker, Bruce M. McLaren, Nikol Rummel, Kenne...
AIED
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Fitting Spatial Ability into Intelligent Tutoring Systems Development
Building effective learning environments is an art that can only be perfected by a great deal of explorations involving the environments’ audience: the learners. This paper focus...
Nancy Milik, Antonija Mitrovic, Michael Grimley
AIED
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Pedagogical Agents Trying on a Caring Mentor Role
: We describe the design and evaluation of an affective pedagogical agent persona for Intelligent Tutoring Systems. The goal of our research was to develop an agent embodying a per...
Konstantin Zakharov, Antonija Mitrovic, Lucy Johns...
ACII
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Early Prediction of Student Frustration
Affective reasoning has been the subject of increasing attention in recent years. Because negative affective states such as frustration and anxiety can impede progress toward learn...
Scott W. McQuiggan, Sunyoung Lee, James C. Lester
ICALT
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A Multiagent Extension for Virtual Reality Based Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Applying Virtual Reality (VR) in combination with Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) is a promising approach to computer based learning and training. However, the classical struc...
Ricardo Imbert, Leticia Sánchez, Angé...
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 7 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 7 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 7 months ago
Who Helps When the Tutor Is Asleep?
While many computer tutoring systems have long been delivered as desktop applications, these systems have only recently begun to appear on mobile devices. In this work we apply pri...
Quincy Brown, Dario D. Salvucci, Frank J. Lee, Vin...
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Combining Evaluative and Generative Diagnosis in ACTIVEMATH
Generative and evaluative approaches are two different ways of diagnosing students’ input that have been realized in a number of intelligent tutoring systems. We describe how Ac...
George Goguadze, Erica Melis
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Motivational Diagnosis in ITSs: Collaborative, Reflective Self-Report
A central challenge in the design of motivationally intelligent tutoring systems lies in defining and diagnosing a learner’s motivational state: in particular, in distinguishing ...
Katerina Avramides, Benedict du Boulay