13 Jan 2025
Research and Statistics II (PSYC 3020)

11 Jan 2025
Announcing DataWhys Summer Internship Program 2025

27 Aug 2024
Introduction to Applied Computational Linguistics (IIS 4/6511)

15 Jul 2024
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference of Artificial Intelligence in Education (Additional Tracks, Vol 2)

15 Jul 2024
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference of Artificial Intelligence in Education (Additional Tracks, Vol 1)

15 Jul 2024
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference of Artificial Intelligence in Education (Main Track, Vol 2)

15 Jul 2024
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference of Artificial Intelligence in Education (Main Track, Vol 1)

03 Jul 2024
Concluding DataWhys Summer Internship Program 2024

31 May 2024
Simple Biostats Package (SBP)

25 Apr 2024
Raising the Roof - Situating Verbs in Symbolic and Embodied Language Processing

25 Apr 2024
Alumni Association Distinguished Research Award

23 Mar 2024
SIGCSE Workshop

18 Mar 2024
Visual Data Science with Blockly-DS

16 Feb 2024
Announcing DataWhys Summer Internship Program 2024

17 Jan 2024
Generative Models - Remaking the World with AI (PSYC/COMP/PHIL 7514/8514)

25 Sep 2023
Exploring the Relationship Between Usability and Cognitive Load in Data Science Education

24 Aug 2023
Introduction to Intelligent Systems (IIS 1010)

21 Aug 2023
Research and Statistics II (PSYC 3020)

27 Jul 2023
Concluding DataWhys Summer Internship Program 2023

07 Jul 2023
Generating multiple choice questions from a textbook - LLMs match human performance on most metrics

02 May 2023
Deeper learning through interactions with students in natural language

12 Jan 2023
Announcing DataWhys Summer Internship Program 2023

03 Jan 2023
Computational Thinking through Modular Sound Synthesis

20 Dec 2022
Scaffolding Computational Thinking Through Block Coding - A Learner Experience Design Study

24 Aug 2022
Computational Thinking through Modular Sound Synthesis (UNHP 1100)

23 Aug 2022
Online Tutoring System (MoFaCTS) for Anatomy and Physiology - Implementation and Initial Impressions

19 Aug 2022
Computational Thinking in Education - Past and Present

29 Jul 2022
Blocks Programming in Python and R for Learning Data Science and NLP/ML

28 Jul 2022
Concluding DataWhys Summer Internship Program 2022

07 Jul 2022
Generating Multiple Choice Questions with a Multi-Angle Question Answering Model

24 Apr 2022
Assessing Readability by Filling Cloze Items with Transformers

17 Apr 2022
Using community-based problems to increase motivation in a data science virtual internship

01 Apr 2022
AI Podcast on Ask Alan!

27 Jan 2022
Announcing DataWhys Summer Internship Program 2022

22 Jan 2022
Automated Content Creation for Intelligent Tutoring Systems

16 Jan 2022
Introduction to Applied Computational Linguistics (IIS 4/6511)

04 Nov 2021
Datawhys Phase 1 - Problem Solving to Facilitate Data Science & STEM Learning Among Summer Interns

20 Aug 2021
Automated Content Creation for Intelligent Tutoring Systems

20 Aug 2021
Special Issue on Creating and Improving Adaptive Learning - Smart Authoring Tools and Processes (IJAIED)

19 Aug 2021
Awarded University Research Professorship

16 Aug 2021
Research and Statistics II (PSYC 3020)

23 Jul 2021
Concluding DataWhys Summer Internship Program 2021

27 Jun 2021
Sentence Selection for Cloze Item Creation - A Standardized Task and Preliminary Results

09 Jun 2021
JupyterLab Extensions for Blocks Programming, Self-Explanations, and HTML Injection

25 May 2021
Contextual Definition Generation

05 Apr 2021
WikiMorph - Learning to Decompose Words into Morphological Structures

05 Apr 2021
Paraphrasing Academic Text - A Study of Backtranslating Anatomy and Physiology with Transformers

31 Mar 2021
Generating Response-Specific Elaborated Feedback Using Long-Form Neural Question Answering

08 Mar 2021
Learning Data Science with Blockly in JupyterLab

05 Mar 2021
Announcing DataWhys Summer Internship Program 2021

28 Nov 2020
Concluding the First DataWhys Online Course

17 Aug 2020
Research and Statistics II (PSYC 3020)

24 Jul 2020
Concluding DataWhys Summer Internship Program 2020

12 Jul 2020
Estimating the Effect of Social Distancing Interventions on COVID-19 in the United States

09 Jul 2020
DataWhys - Getting Around with Jupyter and Blockly

06 Jul 2020
The Mobile Fact and Concept Textbook System (MoFaCTS)

13 Mar 2020
Announcing DataWhys Summer Internship Program 2020

12 Feb 2020
JupyterLab/Blockly Extension - Data Science Example

12 Feb 2020
DataWhys reported in The Daily Memphian

20 Jan 2020
Intelliblocks for the JupyterLab/Blockly Extension

16 Jan 2020
Introduction to Applied Computational Linguistics (IIS 4/6011)

13 Jan 2020
Advancing the Science of Learning Data Science with Adaptive Learning for Future Workforce Development (DataWhys)

13 Jan 2020
DataWhys Project Overview

27 Dec 2019
Fable JupyterLab Blockly Extension

26 Dec 2019
A Cognitive Load Perspective on the Design of Blocks Languages for Data Science.

01 Nov 2019
Semantic Representation and Analysis (SRA) and its Application in Conversion-Based Intelligent Tutoring Systems (CbITS)

30 Sep 2019
Educational Technologies that Support Reading Comprehension for Adults Who Have Low Literacy Skills

29 Sep 2019
MoFaCTS Automated Authoring

15 Sep 2019
The Learner Data Institute - Harnessing The Data Revolution To Make The Learning Ecosystem More Effective, Efficient, and Engaging

15 Sep 2019
LDI Project Overview

26 Aug 2019
Research and Statistics II (PSYC 3020)

01 Jul 2019
Using Adaptive Practice to Improve Recall and Understanding in Postsecondary Anatomy and Physiology

01 Jul 2019
MoFaCTs Project Overview

18 Jun 2019
Manual Subtitle Speech Alignment

12 Jun 2019
Question Classifier 2003 Reboot

02 May 2019
Jill Johnson completes CBU Odyssey Mentoring Program

11 Apr 2019
Awarded First Tennessee Professorship

15 Feb 2019
Cierra Thornton presents Reviewer Finder for the Journal of Educational Data Mining at TSLAMP

15 Jan 2019
Introduction to Intelligent Systems (IIS 1010)

29 Nov 2018
ElectronixTutor - An adaptive learning platform with multiple resources

27 Nov 2018
Using Novices to Scale Up Intelligent Tutoring Systems

05 Nov 2018
Automatically Measuring Question Authenticity in Real-World Classrooms

02 Nov 2018
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of AutoTutor

30 Oct 2018
System and method for automatic extraction of conceptual graphs

08 Sep 2018
CUDA 9.2 Ubuntu 18.04

29 Aug 2018
Harnessing the Data Revolution - Science in the Age of AI (PSYC/COMP/PHIL 7514/8514)

20 Aug 2018
Graphical Supports for Collaboration - Constructing Shared Mental Models

01 Aug 2018
Cierra Thornton presents Reviewer Finder for the Journal of Educational Data Mining

31 Jul 2018
CLASS5 reported in The Hechinger Report

15 Jul 2018
An Open Vocabulary Approach for Detecting Authentic Questions in Classroom Discourse

16 Apr 2018
ElectronixTutor - an intelligent tutoring system with multiple learning resources for electronics

13 Apr 2018
SKOPE-IT (Shareable Knowledge Objects as Portable Intelligent Tutors) - overlaying natural language tutoring on an adaptive learning system for mathematics

28 Mar 2018
Noah Wins Awards for BrainTrust Poster

03 Mar 2018
CUDA eGPU Ubuntu 18.04

27 Sep 2017
CLASS5 reported in EducationNext

23 Sep 2017
Receipt Reconciliation

31 Aug 2017
Hotspot, Ooma, Range Extender, Oh My!

29 Aug 2017
Automated Assessment of Learner-Generated Natural Language Responses

29 Aug 2017
Assessing Teacher Questions in Classrooms

27 Jun 2017
Improving Reading Comprehension with Automatically Generated Cloze Item Practice

26 Jun 2017
Tracking Online Reading of College Students

25 Jun 2017
The Reading Ability of College Freshmen

24 Jun 2017
Assessing the Dialogic Properties of Classroom Discourse - Proportion Models for Imbalanced Classes

23 Jun 2017
Assessing Computer Literacy of Adults with Low Literacy Skills

20 Jun 2017
Setting up the BrainTrust Server

05 Jun 2017
Calculator for Deciding whether to use ANCOVA or Change Scores to Measure Learning

27 Apr 2017
Fable 1.0 in Linux Docker Container with dotnet

14 Apr 2017
Install dotnet core on Debian sid (unstable)

13 Mar 2017
Words matter - automatic detection of teacher questions in live classroom discourse using linguistics, acoustics, and context

13 Mar 2017
Put your thinking cap on - Detecting cognitive load using EEG during learning

30 Jan 2017
BrainTrust Server

24 Oct 2016
Fable Electron Examples

09 Oct 2016
BrainTrust Electron Client

22 Sep 2016
Multi-Sensor Modeling of Teacher Instructional Segments in Live Classrooms

13 Sep 2016
Identifying Teacher Questions Using. Automatic Speech Recognition in Classrooms

13 Aug 2016
Pokemon Go and Augmented Reality

29 Jul 2016
Automatic Teacher Modeling from Live Classroom Audio

15 Jul 2016
Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems - Volume 4 - Domain Modeling

14 Jul 2016
Design and Construction of Domain Models

29 Jun 2016
Semi-Automatic Detection of Teacher Questions from Human-Transcripts of Audio in Live Classrooms

07 Jun 2016
Enhanced Question Asking and Answering with Semantic Networks

07 Jun 2016
Enhanced Authoring with the BrainTrust System

16 May 2016
F# in Docker Container with Beaker Notebook

09 Mar 2016
Motherboard PKD Android

01 Jan 2016
Reading Comprehension Lessons in AutoTutor for the Center for the Study of Adult Literacy

15 Nov 2015
Calling NLTK from F# Using PythonNet

09 Nov 2015
Big Data and Privacy- the View from Computation and Algorithms

30 Oct 2015
Artificial Conversations- Real Learning

18 Oct 2015
Bibtex Updated

16 Oct 2015
PPP enabled GPS Laptop

18 May 2015
Building a BrainTrust

01 May 2015
Using Azure to Assess Dialogic Properties of Classroom Discourse

01 Jan 2015
Integration of Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Electronics

01 Jan 2015
Motion Tracker - Camera-Based Monitoring of Bodily Movements Using Motion Silhouettes

01 Jan 2015
Evolution of reflexive signals using a realistic vocal tract model

01 Jan 2015
Modeling Classroom Discourse - Do Models that Predict Dialogic Instruction Properties Generalize across Populations?

01 Jan 2015
Attention in Educational Contexts - The Role of the Learning Task in Guiding Attention

01 Jan 2015
Emerging Trends in Automated Authoring

01 Jan 2015
Authoring Intelligent Tutoring Systems Using Human Computation - Designing for Intrinsic Motivation

01 Jan 2015
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Integrating Natural Language Tutoring into an Existing Adaptive Learning System

01 Jan 2015
Mind Wandering During Learning with an Intelligent Tutoring System

01 Jan 2015
The Language of Instruction - Compensating for Challenge in Lectures

01 Jan 2015
Multimodal Capture of Teacher-Student Interactions for Automated Dialogic Analysis in Live Classrooms

01 Jan 2015
Breaking Off Engagement - Readers’ Disengagement as a Function of Reader and Text Characteristics

01 Jan 2015
Moody Agents - Affect and Discourse During Learning in a Serious Game.

01 Jan 2015
Automatic Classification of Question and Answer Discourse Segments from Teacher’s Speech in Classrooms

01 Jan 2015
A Study of Automatic Speech Recognition in Noisy Classroom Environments for Automated Dialog Analysis

07 Oct 2014
Cell Phone Simulator

07 Oct 2014
Reflowing a Motherboard

02 Jun 2014
Google Glass

28 Jan 2014
Artificial Conversations- Real Learning

14 Jan 2014
CLASS5 Audio Setup

01 Jan 2014
Mind, Brain, and Intelligence (PSYC 4305)

01 Jan 2014
Domain independent assessment of dialogic properties of classroom discourse

01 Jan 2014
Alignment Is a Function of Conversational Dynamics

01 Jan 2014
Scaffolding Made Visible

01 Jan 2014
Question classification in an epistemic game

01 Jan 2014
Animated Presentation of Pictorial and Concept Map Media in Biology

12 Nov 2013
Case Mod for Thinkpad Tablet 2

02 Sep 2013
Is the uncanny valley real?

01 Sep 2013
CLASS5 Project Overview

01 Sep 2013
BrainTrust Project Overview

01 Aug 2013
Automating the Measurement and Assessment of Classroom Discourse

01 Aug 2013
EAGER - Using Crowdsourced Virtual Students to Create Intelligent Tutors

01 Jan 2013
Shiloh Overview

01 Jan 2013
Mind, Brain, and Intelligence (PSYC 4305)

01 Jan 2013
A review of student models used in intelligent tutoring systems

01 Jan 2013
XNAgent - Authoring embodied conversational agents for tutor-user interfaces

01 Jan 2013
Symbolic, indexical, and iconic communication with domestic dogs

01 Jan 2013
Predicting film genres with implicit ideals

01 Jan 2013
Matching learner models to instructional strategies

01 Jan 2013
Affect, meta-affect, and affect regulation during complex learning

01 Jan 2013
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Educational Data Mining

01 Sep 2012
ONR STEM Grand Challenge - Project Overview

01 Sep 2012
Guru Project Overview

01 Sep 2012
Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT) - Project Overview

01 Sep 2012
Center for the Study of Adult Literacy (CSAL)- Project Overview

01 Aug 2012
Shareable Knowledge Objects (SKO) as Enhanced, Portable ITS Modules

01 Aug 2012
Understanding the cognitive and motivational profiles of struggling adult readers and developing effective and engaging literacy programs to address their literacy learning needs

01 Aug 2012
Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutors

24 Jun 2012
Alan Turing Chatbot

05 Jun 2012
How to Build an Android

24 May 2012
Bring me the Head of Philip K Dick

01 May 2012
Agentpalooza Rapid creation and deployment of embodied conversational agents

01 Jan 2012
Guru Demo

01 Jan 2012
Interactive Concept Maps and Learning Outcomes in Guru

01 Jan 2012
Facilitating Co-adaptation of Technology and Education through the Creation of an Open-source Repository of Interoperable Code

01 Jan 2012
Guru - Designing a Conversational Expert Intelligent Tutoring System

01 Jan 2012
Question Generation from Concept Maps

01 Jan 2012
The World within Wikipedia - An Ecology of Mind

01 Jan 2012
Guru - A Computer Tutor that Models Expert Human Tutors

01 Jan 2012
Practical Programming for NLP

01 Jan 2012
AutoTutor

01 Jan 2012
Gaze Tutor - A Gaze-Reactive Intelligent Tutoring System

20 Dec 2011
Convert Laptop to Tablet

01 Sep 2011
Early Career Research Award

01 Sep 2011
Beyond Boredom - Project Overview

01 Aug 2011
Representing Meaning (PSYC/COMP/PHIL 7514/8514)

01 Aug 2011
Beyond Boredom - Modeling and Promoting Engagement during Complex Learning

01 Jan 2011
Mind, Brain, and Intelligence (PSYC 4305)

01 Jan 2011
Guru Demo

01 Jan 2011
Nonverbal Action Selection for Explanations Using an Enhanced Behavior Net

01 Jan 2011
Evidence for alignment in a computer-mediated text-only environment

01 Jan 2011
Student speech act classification using machine learning

01 Jan 2011
Large-scale latent semantic analysis

01 Jan 2011
Generating Concept Map Exercises from Textbooks

01 Jan 2011
Intelligent tutoring systems

01 Jan 2011
Building rapport with a 3D conversational agent

01 May 2010
Wii Fit Posture Sensor and Posture Mirroring Agent

01 May 2010
Guru Demo

01 Jan 2010
Mind, Brain, & Intelligence (PSYC 4305)

01 Jan 2010
Fast Parallel Topic Model - C# source code

01 Jan 2010
Tutorial Dialog in Natural Language

01 Jan 2010
Likability-based genres - Analysis and evaluation of the netflix dataset

01 Jan 2010
Extraction of concept maps from textbooks for domain modeling

01 Jan 2010
A DIY pressure sensitive chair for intelligent tutoring systems

01 Jan 2010
Off topic conversation in expert tutoring - Waste of time or learning opportunity?

01 Jan 2010
Individual differences as predictors of learning and engagement

01 Jan 2010
Mining collaborative patterns in tutorial dialogues

01 Jan 2010
Collaborative lecturing by human and computer tutors

01 Jan 2010
Tutor me elmo - Improving engagement and learning gains in intelligent tutoring systems with a robotic interface

01 Jan 2010
An exploration of off topic conversation

01 Jan 2010
Using topic models to bridge coding schemes of differing granularity

01 Sep 2009
GnuTutor Project Overview

01 Apr 2009
Guru Demo

01 Jan 2009
Computational Models of Cognition (PSYC 7503/8503)

01 Jan 2009
Minds, 2 or more (PSYC/COMP/PHIL 7514/8514)

01 Jan 2009
Gnututor - An open source intelligent tutoring

01 Jan 2009
Gnututor - An open source intelligent tutoring system

01 Jan 2009
Generalizing latent semantic analysis

07 Aug 2008
Robots End for Teachers

01 Aug 2008
Conditions Guiding Coordinative and Adaptive Dynamics in Human Interaction

01 Aug 2008
Guru - a computer tutor that models expert human tutors

01 Jan 2008
Psychology of Perception (PSYC 3304)

01 Jan 2007
PKD Android Project Overview

01 Jan 2007
Distributional statistics and thematic role relationships

01 Jan 2007
When are tutorial dialogues more effective than reading?

01 Jan 2007
Toward socially intelligent interviewing systems

01 Jan 2007
Semantic heads for grammar induction

01 Jan 2007
Multi-robot dispatch

01 Jan 2007
Latent semantic grammar induction - Context, projectivity, and prior distributions

01 Jan 2007
Dialogue generation for robotic portraits

01 Jan 2007
Inference generation and cohesion in the construction of situation models - Some connections with computational linguistics

01 Aug 2006
TugAV Human Interface

16 Jan 2006
BBC Confessions of a Crap Artist

01 Jan 2006
Cover of Wired

01 Jan 2006
Minimum Spanning Tree - C# source code

01 Jan 2006
AutoTutor Project Overview

01 Jan 2006
Unsupervised induction of latent semantic grammars with application to parsing

01 Jan 2006
AutoTutor 3-D Simulations - Analyzing user’s actions and learning trends

13 Dec 2005
The PKD Android- Painting a Conversational Portrait

11 Nov 2005
Philip K Dick Resurrected, a Conversational Portrait

01 Aug 2005
PKD Android Source Code

13 Jul 2005
PKD Android at AAAI, Won Open Interaction Competition

01 Jul 2005
First place in the Open Interaction category

24 Jun 2005
PKD Android at Fedex Institute of Technology

24 Jun 2005
The PKD Android

17 Jun 2005
PKD Android at NextFest

01 Apr 2005
Using Agent Toolkits in the Classroom

01 Jan 2005
When is reading just as effective as one-on-one interactive tutoring?

01 Jan 2005
Engineering Agent-Based Software Systems

01 Jan 2005
An orthonormal basis for topic segmentation in tutorial dialogue

01 Jan 2005
An orthonormal basis for entailment

01 Jan 2005
The effectiveness of computer simulations in a computer based learning environment

01 Jan 2005
Computer simulation as an instructional technology in AutoTutor

01 Jan 2005
Upending the uncanny valley

01 Jan 2005
AutoTutor’s coverage of expectations during tutorial dialogue

01 Jan 2005
AutoTutor - A cognitive system that simulates a tutor that facilitates learning through mixed-initiative dialogue

01 Jan 2005
AutoTutor - An intelligent tutoring system with mixed-initiative dialogue

01 Jan 2005
The AutoTutor 3 architecture - A software architecture for an expandable, high-availability ITS

01 Jan 2004
Talking Fish

01 Jan 2004
The context dependent sentence abstraction model

01 Jan 2004
A framework of synthesizing tutoring conversation capability with web based distance education courseware

01 Jan 2004
AutoTutor - A tutor with dialogue in natural language

01 Jan 2003
Computational Psycholinguistics

01 Jan 2003
Utterance classification in AutoTutor

01 Jan 2003
Achieving domain independence in AutoTutor

01 Jan 2003
Modeling student performance to enhance the pedagogy of AutoTutor

01 Jan 2003
A Revised Algorithm for Latent Semantic Analysis

01 Jan 2003
AutoTutor improves deep learning of computer literacy - Is it the dialog or the talking head?

01 Jan 2003
Why/AutoTutor - A test of learning gains from a physics tutor with natural language dialog

01 Jan 2002
AutoTutor - A conversational tutoring environment

01 Jan 2002
AutoTutor’s log files and categories of language and discourse

01 Jan 2002
Good computational manners - Mixed-initiative dialog in conversational agents

01 Jan 2002
Implementing latent semantic analysis in learning environments with conversational agents and tutorial dialog

01 Jan 1997
Teaching English as a Foreign Language