PIs: Voicu Popescu, Nicoletta Adamo-Villani, Purdue University (Award Details) Susan Cook, University of Iowa (Award Details) Howard Friedman,University of California-Riverside (Award Details) This project addresses the challenge of making avatars used in tutoring systems and other learning technologies more engaging and more effective learning guides. One focus is on making the movements of an avatar […]
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EXP: Collaborative Research: Engaging Interdisciplinary Students in Innovation Education through Crowd-based Technology
Steven Dow, Carnegie-Mellon University (Award Details) Elizabeth Gerber, Northwestern University (Award Details) This project team is exploring how crowd-based technology can support innovation education through feedback from potential customers and users, specifically looking at how the new forms of authentic feedback can be put to good use to support learning better to design, solve problems, […]
DIP: Collaborative Research: A Personalized Cyberlearning System Based on Cognitive Science
PIs: Richard Baraniuk, Rice University (Award Details) Elizabeth Marsh, Duke University (Award Details) Investigators from Rice University and Duke University will build a Personalized Cyberlearning System, designed around three principles from cognitive science (retrieval practice, spacing, and enhanced feedback), that leverages advances in machine learning and makes use of an existing instructional content material and […]
DIP: Exploiting Longitudinal Electroencephalogram (EEG) Input in a Reading Tutor
PIs: David Mostow, Kai-Min Chang Carnegie-Mellon University Automated (and human) tutors are limited in their ability to infer what is going on in students’ heads based on their observable behavior. The proposed work addresses this limitation by investigating how EEG input from a commercially-available device can be used as evidence about students’ mental states. In […]
EXP: Educating Teens to Understand Personal Health (GET-UP)
PIs: Cynthia Ching, J. Bruce German University of California-Davis Award Details This team is creating a new kind of video-game, one that incorporates the changing characteristics of the person playing the game into the game play itself. This provides game players (learners) with an alternate perspective on their own capabilities and the effects and impacts […]
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