Tag Archives: learning sciences

ICCE 2011 Paper:
The Affective Meta-Tutoring Project: How to motivate students to use effective meta-cognitive strategies

Kurt VANLEHN, Winslow BURLESON, Maria Elena CHAVEZ-ECHEAGARAY, Robert CHRISTOPHERSON, Javier GONZALEZ-SANCHEZ, Yoalli HIDALGO-PONTET, Lishan ZHANG, “The Affective Meta-Tutoring Project: How to motivate students to use effective meta-cognitive strategies”, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computers in Education. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education. November 2011.   Abstract Meta-tutoring applies the basic [...]

ICCE 2011 Paper:
The level up procedure: How to measure learning gains without pre- and post-testing

VanLehn, K., Burleson, W., Chavez-Echeagaray, M.E., Christopherson, R., Gonzalez-Sanchez, J., Hidalgo-Pontet, Y. Muldner, K., and Zhang, L. (2011) The level up procedure: How to measure learning gains without pre- and post- testing. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computers in Education. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Asia- Pacific Society for Computers in Education. October 2011.    [...]

ICALT 2011 Tutorial:
How to Do Multimodal Detection of Affective States?

IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies Athens, Georgia, USA. July 2011 Tutorial.    Abstract The computer’s ability to recognize human emotional states given physiological signals is gaining in popularity to create empathetic systems such as learning environments, health care systems and videogames. Despite that, there are few frameworks, libraries, architectures, or software tools, which [...]

G4C 2011 Short Talk:
Covert and Overt Measures of Engagement Within an Educational Multimedia Environment

8th Annual Games for Change Festival, New Yourk, NY, USA. June 2011. Short Talk Wednesday (June 22) — NYU Law School (40 Washington Square South), Greenberg Lounge.   Abstract Within the social sciences there is a well-established base of research that has helped to shed light on the complexity of human social interactions. Recently, in [...]