Publications

Pedagogical Discourse: Connectinng students to past discussions and peer mentors within an online discussion board
Kim, J. & Shaw, E. (2009). To be presented, 21st Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Pasadena (IAAI-09).

Adapting an Online Mathematics Tutoring System for use by Visually Impaired Students
Shaw, E. & Beal, C. R.(2009). To be presented, Annual Meeting, American Educational Research Association, San Diego (AERA).

Scaffolding of On-line Discussions with Past Discussions: An Analysis and Pilot Study of PedaBot
J. Kim, E. Shaw, S. Ravi, E. Tavano, A. Arromratana & P. Sarda (2008). In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS'08)

Towards Automatic Scaffolding of On-line Discussions in Engineering Courses
J. Kim, E. Shaw, E. Tavano, A. Arromratana, P. Sarda & C. Beal (2008). Accepted, Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA 2008)

Working memory and math problem solving by blind middle and high school students: Implications for universal access.
Beal, C. R., & Shaw, E. (2008). Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, Las Vegas, 2008, in the Symposium on "Promising technology practices for working with students with disabilities".

Intelligent tutoring and human tutoring in small groups: An empirical comparison,
Beal, C., Shaw, E., and Birch, M.(2007). In R. Luckin, K. R. Koedinger & J. Greer (Eds.), Artificial intelligence in education: Building technology rich learning contexts that work (pp. 536-538).

Novel Tools for Assessing Student Discussions: Modeling Threads and Participant Roles through Speech Act and Topic Analysis,
Kim, J., Shaw, E., and Chern, G. (2007). In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED).

Towards Automatic Assessment of On-line Discussions: Analyzing Student “Speech Acts”,
Kim, J., Shaw, E., and Chern, G.(2007). Accepted, Annual Meeting, American Educational Research Association, Chicago (AERA).

An Intelligent Discussion-Bot for Guiding Student Interactions in Threaded Discussions ,
Kim, J., Shaw, E., Chern, G., and Feng, D. (2007). Workshop paper, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Spring Symposium (AAAI/SSS07).

Mining and Assessing Discussions on the Web through Speech Act Analysis,
Kim, J., Chern, G., Feng, D., Shaw, E., and Hovy, E. (2006). Workshop paper, Web Content Mining/Human Language Technology Workshop at the 5th International Semantic Web Conference (WCM/HLT, ISWC2006).

Towards Modeling Threaded Discussions using Induced Ontology Knowledge,
Feng, D., Kim, J., Shaw, E., and Hovy, E. (2006). In Proc. of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

Learning to Detect Conversation Focus of Threaded Discussions,
Feng, D., Shaw, E., Kim, J., and Hovy, E. (2006). In Proc. of the Joint Human Language Technology Conference/Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Assoc. for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL06).

An Intelligent Discussion-Bot for Answering Student Queries in Threaded Discussions,
Feng, D., Shaw, E., Kim, J., and Hovy, E. (2006). In Proc. of the Annual Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI).

Assessing Student Motivation with Online Self-report Instruments in Web-Based Intelligent Tutoring System.
Lee, H., Beal, C., and Erin Shaw, E. (2006). Presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. April 7, 2006, San Francisco (AERA)

Constructing Computer-Based Tutors that Are Socially-Sensitive:  Politeness in Educational Software,
Mayer, R.E., Johnson, W.L., Shaw, E., and Sandhu, S. (2005), International Journal of Human Computer Studies.

Assessing and Scaffolding Collaborative Learning in Online Discussions,
E. Shaw (2005). Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED). Amsterdam: IOS Press.

Introducing Discussion Summarrization to Online Classrooms,
Zhou, L., Shaw, E., Lin, C.-Y., Hovy, E. (2005). Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference Interactive Demonstrations(HLT/EMNLP).

Enhancing ITS instruction with integrated assessments of learner mood, motivation and gender,
Beal, C., Shaw, E., Vilhjalmsson, H., Chiu, J., Lee, H., and Qu, L (2005). Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED). Amsterdam: IOS Press.

The Politeness Effect: Pedagogical Agents and Learning Gains (Best Student Paper),
Wang, N., Johnson, W.L., Mayer, R.E., Rizzo, P. and Shaw, E. (2005). Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED). Amsterdam: IOS Press.

Experimental Evaluation of Polite Interaction Tactics for Pedagogical Agents
Wang, N., Johnson, W.L., Rizzo, P., Shaw, E. and Mayer, R.E.(2005). Annual Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI).


A Semi-Automated Wizard of Oz Interface for Modeling Tutorial Strategies
Rizzo, P., Lee, H., Shaw, E., Johnson, W.L., Wang, N. and Mayer, R.E. (2005). Annual Conference on User Modeling.

Constructing Computer-Based Tutors That Are Socially Sensitive: Politeness in Educational Software (See Journal article.)
Mayer, R.E., Johnson, W.L., Shaw, E., and Sandhu, S. (2005). Annual Meeting, American Educational Research Association (AERA).

Modeling Motivational and Social Aspects of Tutorial Dialog,
Johnson, W.L., Rizzo, P., Lee, H., Wang, N., and Shaw, E. (2004). Workshop on Social and Emotional Intelligence in Learing Environments, Seventh Int'l Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS)
[Note: This publication does not appear to exist. Perhaps the venue is incorrect.]

Animating 2D Digital Puppets with Limited Autonomy,
Shaw, E., LaBore, C., Chiu, Y.C., and Johnson, W.L. (2004). Proc. of the Smart Graphics 4th Int'l Symposium, SG 2004. Springer.

Socially Intelligent Learner-Agent Interaction Tactics,
Johnson, W. Lewis , S. Kole, E. Shaw, and H. Pain (2003). Proc. of the 11th Int'l Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED). Amsterdam: IOS Press.

A Web-based simulation environment for manufacturing education,
J. Rickel, M. Dessouky, E. Kazlauskas, N. Sadagopan, E. Shaw, & W.L. Johnson (2003). Proc. of the 11th Int'l Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED). Amsterdam: IOS Press.

Evolution of User Interaction: The Case of Agent Adele,
Johnson, W.L., Shaw, E., Marshal, A., LaBore, C. (2003). Proceedings of the 2003 Int'l Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI).

Pedagogical agents: an opportunity to be grasped?,
G. Clarebout, E. Elen, W. L. Johnson & E. Shaw (2003). Journal of Educational Media and Hypermedia 11.3 (2002): 267-286.

An Agent that Helps Children to Author Rhetorically-Structured Digital Puppet Presentations,
Rizzo, P., Shaw, E., and Johnson, W.L. (2002). Proceedings of the Sixth Int'l Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS).

Tutoring Diagnostic Problem Solving,
Ganeshan, R., Johnson, W.L., Shaw, E., and Wood, B.P. (2000). Proceedings of the Fifth Int'l Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS).

Building a Case for Agent-Assisted Learning as a Catalyst for Curriculum Reform in Medical Education,
Shaw, E., Ganeshan, R., Johnson, W.L., and Millar, D. (1999). Proceedings of the Int'l Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), July, 1999.

Pedagogical Agents on the Web,
Shaw, E., Johnson, W.L., and Ganeshan, R. (1999). Proceedings of the Third Int'l Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents), pp. 283-290, May, 1999.

Using Agents to Overcome Difficulties in Web-Based Courseware,
Johnson, W.L. and Shaw, E., AI-ED'97 Workshop on Intelligent Educational Systems on the World Wide Web, August, 1997.

Hierarchical Radiosity for Dynamic Environments,
Shaw, E., Computer Graphics Forum, Vol.16, No.2, June, 1997. Blackwell Publishers.
Note: The article above is based on my master's thesis of the same name. The Postscript file is large because it includes colored images. To obtain a printed copy of the thesis, contact Program of Computer Graphics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. I also keep a local copy available.

Automated Management and Delivery of Distance Courseware,
Johnson, W.L., Blake, T., and Shaw, E. (1996). In Proceedings of the First World Conference of the Web Society Proceedings, October, 1996.

Dienst:Implementation Reference Manual,
Lagoze, C., Shaw, E., Davis, J.R., and Krafft, D.B., Technical Report TR95-1514, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University.