Faculty Projects
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Towards Understanding Diminished Reality
Diminished reality (DR) refers to the concept of removing content from a user's visual environment. While its implementation is becoming feasible, it is s...
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Bazaar
Based on our experiences with designing and engineering multi-party conversational environments such as collaborative learning systems that involve integr...
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Adaptive Cyber-Learning With a Sensor Support
This project aims to better support student learning by adapting computer-based tutoring to individual learning phases and real-time capabilities. The sp...
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Chronic Web
The Chronic Web project explores how online resources affect the online and offline experience of managing and coping with chronic illness....
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Designing for the Self
This project investigates the value of product attachment theory, which describes how people develop relationships with and learn to love their possession...
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MILLEE: Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies
Cell phone applications that enable children in the villages and slums in the developing world to acquire language and literacy in immersive, game-like en...
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The Genetics Cognitive Tutor
This collaboration of researchers in the HCII and Biological Sciences is developing a Cognitive Tutor for problem solving in genetics. Genetics problem so...
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VMT
In collaboration with Gerry Stahl and the Math Forum at Drexel University, this project seeks to develop a technological augmentation to available human s...
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Bridging the Bridge to Algebra: Measuring and Optimizing the Influence of Prerequisite Skills on a Pre-Algebra Curriculum
The purpose of this project is to develop an automated tutorial intervention that is intended to improve learning in a pre-algebra curriculum. In particul...
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SimStudent
SimStudent is a synthetic student that learns cognitive skills from worked-out examples (i.e., demonstrated solutions) and through tutored problem-solving...
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Computational Modeling and Data Mining
Computational Modeling and Data Mining is one of four thrusts within the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. This thrust is pursuing the scientific goa...
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Metacognition and Motivation
Metacognition and Motivation is one of four thrusts of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. It has the goals of developing a better understanding of...
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Social and Communicative Factors in Learning
Social and Communicative Factors is one of four thrusts within the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. The research investigates how human linguistic i...
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Cognitive Factors: A Thrust Within the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center
Cognitive Factors is one of four thrusts of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. It is aimed at understanding cognitive learning—changes in knowledg...
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LightSIDE
LightSIDE is a resource for applying machine learning technologies to text processing problems....
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SIDE: Summarization Integrated Development Environment
In this project we are developing a configurable summarization environment that uses multi-level analyses of discourse to support a new generation of summ...
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Basilica: Reconfigurable Multi-Party Dialogue Environment
Based on our experiences with designing and engineering multi-party conversational environments such as collaborative learning systems that involve integr...
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CycleTalk: Dialogue Technology for Supporting Simulation Based Learning
In the CycleTalk project, we are developing a new collaborative learning support approach that makes use of tutorial dialogue technology in the context of...
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Supporting Virtual Math Teams with Language Technologies
In collaboration with Gerry Stahl and the Math Forum at Drexel University, this project seeks to develop a technological augmentation to available human s...
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Digital Bridges: On-Line Education Fostering Partnerships for Research and Teaching
The key idea of the Digital Bridges project is to extend existing resources for technology-based education to create a vibrant environment for globalized ...