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ACII
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Predicting Facial Indicators of Confusion with Hidden Markov Models
Affect plays a vital role in learning. During tutoring, particular affective states may benefit or detract from student learning. A key cognitiveaffective state is confusion, which...
Joseph F. Grafsgaard, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Jame...
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Beetle II: A System for Tutoring and Computational Linguistics Experimentation
We present BEETLE II, a tutorial dialogue system designed to accept unrestricted language input and support experimentation with different tutorial planning and dialogue strategie...
Myroslava Dzikovska, Johanna D. Moore, Natalie B. ...
ACL
1992
13 years 5 months ago
Would I Lie to You? Modelling Misrepresentation and Context in Dialogue
In this paper we discuss a mechanism for modifying context in a tutorial dialogue. The context mechanism imposes a pedagogically motivated misrepresentation (PMM) on a dialogue to...
Carl Gutwin, Gordon I. McCalla
ITS
2010
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Characterizing the Effectiveness of Tutorial Dialogue with Hidden Markov Models
Identifying effective tutorial dialogue strategies is a key issue for intelligent tutoring systems research. Human-human tutoring offers a valuable model for identifying effective ...
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, Amy Ingra...
ITS
2004
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
CycleTalk: Toward a Dialogue Agent That Guides Design with an Articulate Simulator
Abstract. We discuss the motivation for a novel style of tutorial dialogue system that emphasizes reflection in a design context. Our current research focuses on the hypothesis tha...
Carolyn Penstein Rosé, Cristen Torrey, Vinc...
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Influence of Learner Characteristics on Task-Oriented Tutorial Dialogue
Tutorial dialogue has been the subject of increasing attention in recent years, and it has become evident that empirical studies of humanhuman tutorial dialogue can contribute impo...
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Mladen A. Vouk, James C. L...
AIED
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Evidence of Misunderstandings in Tutorial Dialogue and their Impact on Learning
We explore the frequency and impact of misunderstandings in an existing corpus of tutorial dialogues in which a student appears to get an interpretation that is not in line with wh...
Pamela W. Jordan, Diane J. Litman, Michael Lipschu...
AIED
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Discovering Tutorial Dialogue Strategies with Hidden Markov Models
Identifying effective tutorial strategies is a key problem for tutorial dialogue systems research. Ongoing work in human-human tutorial dialogue continues to reveal the complex phe...
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Eunyoung Ha, Michael D. Wa...