Tutor Research Group

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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Key problems in our area:

 

Current projects that members of the research group are working on:

Journals and Conferences related to ITS:

Conferences:

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 -----

 

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:

Funding

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Industry: 


Papers published: (more recent papers here)


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
 




Janice M. Earle, Sr Prog Direc; Walter Ermler, Prog Director
James C. French, Program Director




December 10, 2003

November 16, 2003
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

 

Number of proposals targeted for the next year to come out of this group:

    Three proposals would be nice. Maybe more.

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