Faculty Projects

This project aims to better support student learning by adapting computer-based tutoring to individual learning phases and real-time capabilities. The sp This project aims to better support student learning by adapting computer-based tutoring to individual learning phases and real-time capabilities. The specific research goal is to explore a method fo ...

The Chronic Web project explores how online resources affect the online and offline experience of managing and coping with chronic illness. The Chronic Web project explores how online resources affect the online and offline experience of managing and coping with chronic illness. ...

This project investigates the value of product attachment theory, which describes how people develop relationships with and learn to love their possession This project investigates the value of product attachment theory, which describes how people develop relationships with and learn to love their possessions. In attempting to operationalize this theory ...

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 Cell phone applications that enable children in the villages and slums in the developing world to acquire language and literacy in immersive, game-like environments. These applications target localize ...

This collaboration of researchers in the HCII and Biological Sciences is developing a Cognitive Tutor for problem solving in genetics. Genetics problem so This collaboration of researchers in the HCII and Biological Sciences is developing a Cognitive Tutor for problem solving in genetics. Genetics problem solving involves multiple learning goals and the ...

In collaboration with Gerry Stahl and the Math Forum at Drexel University, this project seeks to develop a technological augmentation to available human s In collaboration with Gerry Stahl and the Math Forum at Drexel University, this project seeks to develop a technological augmentation to available human support in a lightly staffed Virtual Math Teams ...

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 The purpose of this project is to develop an automated tutorial intervention that is intended to improve learning in a pre-algebra curriculum. In particular, the goal of this intervention is to help c ...

SimStudent is a synthetic student that learns cognitive skills from worked-out examples (i.e., demonstrated solutions) and through tutored problem-solving SimStudent is a synthetic student that learns cognitive skills from worked-out examples (i.e., demonstrated solutions) and through tutored problem-solving. Technically, SimStudent is an application of ...

Computational Modeling and Data Mining is one of four thrusts within the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. This thrust is pursuing the scientific goa Computational Modeling and Data Mining is one of four thrusts within the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. This thrust is pursuing the scientific goal of using large-scale data to advance precise ...

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 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 how metacognitive processes and motivation in ...

Social and Communicative Factors is one of four thrusts within the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. The research investigates how human linguistic i Social and Communicative Factors is one of four thrusts within the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. The research investigates how human linguistic interaction works in instruction and learning, ...

Cognitive Factors is one of four thrusts of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. It is aimed at understanding cognitive learning—changes in knowledg Cognitive Factors is one of four thrusts of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. It is aimed at understanding cognitive learning—changes in knowledge—that result from instructional events. ...

LightSIDE is a resource for applying machine learning technologies to text processing problems. LightSIDE is a resource for applying machine learning technologies to text processing problems. ...

In this project we are developing a configurable summarization environment that uses multi-level analyses of discourse to support a new generation of summ In this project we are developing a configurable summarization environment that uses multi-level analyses of discourse to support a new generation of summarization technology addressing a variety of i ...

Based on our experiences with designing and engineering multi-party conversational environments such as collaborative learning systems that involve integr Based on our experiences with designing and engineering multi-party conversational environments such as collaborative learning systems that involve integrating the state of the art in text classificat ...

In the CycleTalk project, we are developing a new collaborative learning support approach that makes use of tutorial dialogue technology in the context of In the CycleTalk project, we are developing a new collaborative learning support approach that makes use of tutorial dialogue technology in the context of a collaborative simulation based learning env ...

In collaboration with Gerry Stahl and the Math Forum at Drexel University, this project seeks to develop a technological augmentation to available human s In collaboration with Gerry Stahl and the Math Forum at Drexel University, this project seeks to develop a technological augmentation to available human support in a lightly staffed Virtual Math Teams ...

The key idea of the Digital Bridges project is to extend existing resources for technology-based education to create a vibrant environment for globalized The key idea of the Digital Bridges project is to extend existing resources for technology-based education to create a vibrant environment for globalized instructional support and collaborative profes ...

This project seeks to provide a new integration of theories and methods from the fields of CSCW and CSCL that will advance both areas individually and, to This project seeks to provide a new integration of theories and methods from the fields of CSCW and CSCL that will advance both areas individually and, together, human-computer interaction as a whole, ...

The ACT-R project focuses on developing a robust and general cognitive architecture and applying it to the modeling of human interaction with complex dyna The ACT-R project focuses on developing a robust and general cognitive architecture and applying it to the modeling of human interaction with complex dynamic simulated environments and the creation of ...