Faculty Projects

This project brings together an interdisciplinary team with expertise in computer supported collaborative learning, language and information technologies,...

A call during dinner? While one party may value the conversation, the receiver thinks it is an interruption. This project examines the conditions under wh...

Context is any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity (person, place, or physical or computational object). A computing s...

Open-source software runs the Internet and challenges commercial software in many areas. Despite this success, it is not clear how the open-source paradig...

In face-to-face settings, people use pointing and other gestures to communicate quickly and efficiently with their conversational partners. The aims of th...

Hurricane Katrina had a profound effect on New Orleans and its music scene. Katrina devastated performance venues, dispersed bands and their audiences, an...

Cognitive Tutors have been successful in raising students’ math test scores in high-school and middle-school classrooms, but their development requires co...

An automated Reading Tutor displays stories on a computer screen, listens to children read aloud, adapts Carnegie Mellon’s Sphinx-II speech recognizer to ...

The Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center is leveraging computational theory and cognitive modeling to identify the instructional conditions that cause ro...

The Physics Teaching Web Advisory (Pathway) is creating a proof-of-concept demonstration of a new type of digital library for physics teaching. It brings ...

The PACT Center uses cognitive tutor technology to create an integrated classroom and computer lab curriculum that supports students’ understanding of mat...

This study builds on recent empirical work about user-centered design and effectiveness of high level IETMs (Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals) and...

This project seeks to increase kids’ engagement with math learning in connection with Cognitive Tutors using support for help seeking and collaborative pr...

The great bulk of currently available "online courses" are no more than inconvenient textbooks. Our project is an ongoing effort to make online courseware...

The Active Learning and Problem Solving (ALPS) project involves constructing and evaluating educational technology that emulates human tutors by integrati...

We are developing a tool called Alice that allows novice programmers to author interactive 3D virtual worlds. By identifying the unnecessary challenges of...

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