Tutor Research Group
Meeting | Research Problems | Conferences | Funding | Projects | Papers | Members | Schedule
Tutor research group focuses on various issues related to Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS). Our current projects include Programming By Demonstration for Tutoring Systems, Authoring Tools for Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Using Association Rules to Mine Data from Tutorial Log Files, Improving an Intelligent Tutoring System by Data Mining Tutorial Log Files, Integrating Tutoring Systems into Distributed Simulations Environments: Tutoring Collaborative Learning and many more.
| TRG | Tutor Research Group |
|---|---|
| Meeting Time | Wednesday, 11:00 am |
| Location | FL 246, Beckett Conference Room. |
| Coordinator | Prof. Neil Heffernan |
| Faculty | Prof. Neil Heffernan |
| Mailing list | trg@cs.wpi.edu |
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Key problems in our area
Current Projects
- Matt Jarvis and Goss Nuzzo-Jones: Programming By Demonstration for Tutoring Systems
- Sanket Choksey: Authoring Tools for Intelligent Tutoring Systems
- Jon Freyberger: Using Association Rules to Mine Data from Tutorial Log Files
- Ethan Croteau: Improving an Intelligent Tutoring System by Data Mining Tutorial Log Files
- Larisa Orlova: Using A Cognitively Plausible Search Space to search for the Best Predicting Cognitive Model Given a set of Tutorial Log Files.
- Tom Livak and Kerry MacKay: Integrating Tutoring Systems into Distributed Simulations Environments: Tutoring Collaborative Learning
- Vilmos Csizmadia: An Authoring Tools for Tutoring Problem Decomposition
- Leena Razzaq: Does Dialog Help Improve Student Learning :An Intelligent Tutor Equation Solving
Journals and Conferences related to ITS
Conferences
| Conference Name | Next conf. | When | Where | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ICALT | ICALT-2004 | Aug 30 - Sept 1 2004 | Finland | February 13, 2004 |
| Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | CHI 2004 | 24-29 April, 2003 | Vienna, Austria | 6 October 2003 |
| Designing Interactive Systems | DIS 2004 | 1-4 August | Cambridge, MA, USA. | 28 November 2003 |
| Cognitive Science Society Annual Meeting | COGSCI 2004 | August 4-8, 2004 | Westin Chicago River North | --- |
| Human Computer Interaction | HCI 2005 | 22-27 July 2005 | Caesars Palace - Las Vegas, Nevada SA | Early 2005 |
| International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence | IJCAI-05 | 31st July to 5th August 2005 | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK | --- |
| National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) | AAAI-04 | July 25-29, 2004 | San Jose, California | January 20, 2004 |
| Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference | IAAI-03 | Aug. 12-14, 2003 | Acapulco, Mexico |
January 21, 2003 |
| The 17th International FLAIRS Conference | FLAIRS 2004 | May 17-19, 2004 | Miami Beach, Florida | October 24, 2003 |
| Intelligent Tutoring System Conference | ITS 2004 | 2004 | --- | ---- |
| Artificial Intelligence in Education | AIinED | 2005 | Europe- Netherlands | ---- |
| Intelligent User Interfaces | IUI 2004 | January 13-16, 2004 | Island of Madeira, Portugal | September 26, 2003 |
| Computer Assisted Design of User Interfaces | CADUI 2004 | January 13-16, 2004 | Island of Madeira, Portugal | September 26, 2003 |
| User Modeling | UM 2003 | 22 - 26 June 2003 | Univ. of Pittsburgh | ---- |
| Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Conference | CSCL 2003 | June 14 - 18 | Bergen Norway | ----- |
| International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining | KDD - 2003 | August 24 - 27, 2003 | Washington, DC, USA | ----- |
Workshops
| Conference Name | When | Where | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|
| PROTEGE Workshop | 2005 | --- | --- |
| AAAI Spring Symposium | March 22-24, 2004 | Stanford University in Palo Alto, California | April 21 2003 |
Journals
- Cognitive Science
- International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education
- Journal of the Learning Sciences
- Cognition and instruction
- Journal of Educational Psychology
- American Educational Research Association conference
- Summary of CHI conferences
Sources of funding (agencies and programs):
Federal:
- NSF
- DOD including Office of Naval Research, ARMY, DARPA
- Spencer Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, McDonald Foundation
Fellowships
- Spencer Foundation
- Other Private Foundations might be possible
Industry
- I know less of but I know Microsoft and some others are trying to get into this area. Microsoft wants better help systems and is using Bayes nets to do it.
Papers published:
- One Paper in top tier by Heffernan
Heffernan, N. T. (2003) Web-Based Evaluations Showing both Cognitive and Motivational Benefits of the Ms. Lindquist Tutor 11th International Conference Artificial Intelligence in Education. Sydney. Australia. - One Paper in middle tier by Heffernan
Koedinger, K. R., Aleven, V., & Heffernan, N. T. (2003) Toward a Rapid Development Environment for Cognitive Tutors. 12th Annual Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation. Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization. - Three Tech Reports
- Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Rule Generation in Intelligent Tutoring Systems - Neil Heffernan, Matthew JARVIS and Goss NUZZO-JONES (.doc)
- A Methodology for Evaluating Predictions of Transfer and an Empirical Application to Data from a Web-Based Intelligent Tutoring System: How to Improve Knowledge Tracing in Dialog Based Tutors. (.pdf .ps.gz)- Neil Heffernan, Ethan A. Croteau
- An Evaluation of the Run-Time Performance of the Model-Tracing Algorithm of Two Different Production Systems: JESS and TDK - Neil Heffernan, Sanket Choksey (.pdf)
Projects that could lead to viable grant proposals:
| Proposal | Program | Contact person | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|
| A proposal with Carolina Ruiz to apply association rules mining to sequences in tutorial log files to NSF is planned. | December 2003 | ||
| A proposal on Authoring Tools to NSF is planned with colleagues at CMU. Might be two proposal with the second one
adding machine Learning and programming by demonstration One going to AI and Cognitive Systems in CISE due Nov 16th One going to ROLE in EHR |
Research on Learning and Education (ROLE), NSF Knowledge and Cognitive Systems, NSF |
Janice M. Earle, Sr Prog Direc; Walter Ermler, Prog Director James C. French, Program Director |
December 10, 2003 November 16, 2003 |
| ANSF Career Proposal | July 2004 | ||
| A proposal to DARPA to support work to adapt our authoring tools to distributed simulations that run in real time and in 3D space. | No clear deadline | ||
| Something to NIH for Tutors for Medical Diagnosis? | No clear place or deadline yet | ||
| A NSF EHR CCIL Undergraduate Education for Tutoring with Tom Murray or QCC | Hard deadline of October 29th | ||
| A proposal to build tutors for physical manipulation HCI CISE | Human Computer Interaction, NSF | Ephraim Glinert, Program Director | November 16, 2003 |
| Digital Societies and Technologies, NSF | C. Suzanne Iacono, Program Director | November 16, 2003 |
Number of proposals targeted for the next year to come out of this group:
Three proposals would be nice. Maybe more.
Group Members:
Faculty:
Students:
- Matt Jarvis
- Goss Nuzzo-Jones
- Sanket Choksey
- Jon Freyberger
- Ethan Croteau
- Larisa Orlova
- Tom Livak
- Kerry MacKay
- Vilmos Csizmadia
- Leena Razzaq
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