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Meeting | Research Problems | Conferences | Funding | Projects | Papers | Members
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 AT cs.wpi.edu |
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| Conference Name | Next conf. | When | Where | Deadline |
| International Conference on Intelligent User Interface | IUI-2006 | 29 January 2006 to 1 February 2006 | Sydney, Australia | September 19, 2005 |
| 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 | ----- |
| Conference Name | When | Where | Deadline |
| PROTEGE Workshop | 2005 | --- | --- |
| AAAI Spring Symposium | March 22-24, 2004 | Stanford University in Palo Alto, California | April 21 2003 |
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.
| 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 | |||||
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| A NSF 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 |
Three proposals would be nice. Maybe more.
Faculty:
Students:
- Matt Jarvis
- Goss Nuzzo-Jones
- Sanket Choksey
- Jon Freyberger
- Ethan Croteau
- Larisa Orlova
- Tom Livak
- Kerry MacKay
- Vilmos Csizmadia
- Leena Razzaq
Please send your comments and suggestions about the site to mfeng at cs dot wpi dot edu - 06/23/2005