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Program

NOTE:  Locations are in CAPS (see conference center  map).  With a few noted exceptions, workshops, tutorials, and interactive events are in the lower level, while other events are lobby level.
Monday July 9, 2007 - Tutorials and Workshops, day 1
08:00 - 09:00 Registration (lower level - outside PENINSULA room)
09:00 - 17:30 Tutorials and Workshops (lower level)
Full day (9:00 -17:30) Morning only (9:00 - 12:30)
Tuesday July 10, 2007 - Tutorials and Workshops, day 2
08:00 - 09:00 Registration (lower level - outside PENINSULA room)
09:00 - 17:30 Tutorials and Workshops (lower level)
19:00 - 22:00 Marina boat cruise (additional cost)
Full day (9:00 -17:30) Morning only (9:00 - 12:30)
Afternoon only (14:00 - 17:30)
Wednesday July 11, 2007 - Main conference, day 1
08:00 - 09:00 Registration (lobby level - outside CALIFORNIA BALLROOM)
08:30 - 09:00 Welcome (SIERRA I + II)
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote:  Roxana Moreno, University of New Mexico
The Relationship Between Minds-On and Hands-On Activity in Instructional Design:  Evidence from Learning with Interactive and Non-Interactive Multimedia Environments
(SIERRA I + II)
10:00 - 10:30 Refreshments
10:30 - 12:00 Paper session I:
  • Track 1:  Human-Computer Interaction (PACIFIC I + II)
  • Session Chair: Gordon McCalla
    • The Principle of State Expansion in Task State-Space Navigation ( Darren Pearce, Rosemary Luckin)
    • Generating Responses to Formally Flawed Problem-Solving Statements (Helmut Horacek, Magdalena Wolska) 
    • Semantic Web Technology to Support Learning about the Semantic Web (Martin Dzbor, Enrico Motta)
    • Exploring Neural Trajectories of Scientific Problem Solving Skill Acquisition (Ron Stevens, Trysha Galloway, Chris Berka)
  • Track 2:  Motivation  (PROMENADE)
  • Session Chair: Neil T. Heffernan
    • Relating machine estimates of students' learning goals to learning outcomes: A DBN approach (Carole Beal, Lei Qu)
    • MathGirls: Increasing Girlsi Positive Attitudes and Self-Efficacy through Pedagogical Agents (Yanghee Kim, Quan Wei, Beijie Xu, Youngah Ko, Vessela Ilieva)*
    • Content Matters: An Investigation of Feedback Categories within an ITS (G. Tanner Jackson, Art Graesser)
    • Does learner control affect learning? (Joseph Beck)
  • Interactive Events 1 (PALISADES - lower level)
  • - Tactical Language and Culture Training System: Learn and Author
  • Young Researcher Track and Doctoral Consortium 1: Feedback (PACIFIC III)
    • Are we asking the right questions?: Understanding which tasks lead to the robust learning of the English article system (Ruth Wylie)
    • Towards A Virtual Teaching Assistant to Answer Questions Asked by Students in Introductory Computer Science (Cecily Heiner)
    • Adaptive Generation of Feedback in a Learning Environment with Smart Objects (Bjorn Eisen)
    • Exploring Narrative as a Cognitive Aid in Educational Video Games (Alan Koenig)

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Paper session II:
  • Track 1:  Pedagogical Agents (PACIFIC I + II)
  • Session Chair: Roger Azevedo
    • Tools for authoring a dialogue agent that participates in learning studies (Pamela Jordan, Brian Hall, Michael Ringenberg, Yui Cui, Carolyn Rose)
    • Changing Attitudes and Performance with Computer-generated Social Models (Rinat B. Rosenberg-Kima, E. Ashby Plant, Amy L. Baylor, Celeste E. Doerr)
    • Pedagogical Agents Trying on a Caring Mentor Role (Konstantin Zakharov, Antonija Mitrovic, Lucy Johnston)
    • Serious Use of a Serious Game for Language Learning (W. Lewis Johnson)
  • Track 2:  Emotion and Affect (PROMENADE)
  • Session Chair: Kaska Porayska-Pomsta
    • Affect and Usage Choices in Simulation Problem Solving Environments (Mercedes Rodrigo, Ryan Baker, Lagud Maria, Lim Sheryl, Macapanpan Alexis, Pascua Sheila, Santillano Jerry, Sevilla Leima, Sugay Jessica, Tep Sinath)
    • Getting Under the Skin of Learners: Tools for Evaluating the Emotional Experience of Education (Madeline Alsmeyer, Rose Luckin, Judith Good)
    • Mind and Body: Dialogue and Posture for Affect Detection in Learning Environments (Sidney D'Mello, Arthur Graesser)
    • Towards Predictive Modelling of Student Affect from Web-Based Interactions (Manolis Mavrikis, Antony Maciocia, John Lee)
  • Young Researcher Track and Doctoral Consortium 2: Learner Modelling (PACIFIC III)
    • Applying Learning Factors Analysis to Build Stereotypic Student Models (Anna Rafferty, Michael Yudelson)*
    • A Student Model Based on Item Response Theory for TuTalk, a Tutorial Dialogue Agent (Michael Ringenberg)
    • Automating the Generation of Student Models for Intelligent Tutoring Systems (John Stamper)
    • Supporting Learning in Games with an Open Learner Model (David Storey)

15:05 - 16:35 Paper session III:
  • Track 1:  Representation (PACIFIC I + II)
  • Session Chair: Beverly Wolf
    • Helping Courseware Authors to Build Ontologies: the Case of TM4L (Darina Dicheva, Christo Dichev)
    • Evaluating Legal Argument Instruction with Graphical Representations using LARGO (Niels Pinkwart, Vincent Aleven, Kevin Ashley, Collin Lynch)
    • Tis better to construct than to receive? The effects of diagram tools on causal reasoning. (Matthew Easterday, Vincent Aleven, Richard Scheines)
    • VL-PATSy: Facilitating vicarious learning via intelligent resource provision (Richard Cox, Jianxiong Pang)
  • Track 2:  Metacognition (PROMENADE)
  • Session Chair: Benedict du Boulay
    • The dynamic nature of self-regulatory behavior in self-regulated learning and externally-regulated learning episodes (Amy Witherspoon Amy Witherspoon, Roger Azevedo, Jeffrey Greene, Daniel Moos, Shanna Baker, Andrew Trousdale, Jennifer Scott)*
    • The Influence of Self-Regulation on Student Generated Questions during Hypermedia Learning (Jeremiah Sullins, Roger Azevedo, Andrew Trousdale, Jennifer Scott)
    • Remediating disengagement with non-invasive interventions (Ivon Arroyo, Kimberly Ferguson, Jeff Johns, Toby Dragon, Hasmik Meheranian, Don Fisher, Andrew Barto, Sridhar Mahadevan, Beverly Woolf)
    • Can Help Seeking Be Tutored? Searching for the Secret Sauce of Metacognitive Tutoring (Ido Roll, Vincent Aleven, Bruce M. McLaren, Kenneth R, Koedinger)
  • Young Researcher Track and Doctoral Consortium 3: Affective Considerations (PACIFIC III)
    • Towards promoting meta-cognition using emotive interface personas within Open-Learner Modelling Environments (Sylvie Girard)
    • Coping with Anxiety and Frustration:  Self-efficacy Modelling and Empathetic Companion Agents (Scott McQuiggan)*
    • Modeling Engagement in Educational Adaptive Hypermedia (Jabari Pulliam, Robert Sajan, Katja Hofmann)
    • Learning Engagement: What Actions of Learners Could Best Predict It? (Mihaela Cocea)

16:35 - 17:00 Refreshments
17:00 - 18:00 Keynote:  Gregory Abowd, Georgia Institute of Technology
Humanity-Based Classroom - Teaching is Caring and Learning is Joyful
(SIERRA I + II)
18:00 - 21:00 Reception/dinner (The Harbor House restaurant)
Thursday July 12, 2007 - Main conference, day 2
08:00 - 09:00 Registration (lobby level - outside CALIFORNIA BALLROOM)
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote:  Danae Stanton Fraser, University of Bath
The Technical Art of Learning Science
(SIERRA I + II)
10:00 - 10:30 Refreshments
10:30 - 12:00 Paper session IV:
  • Track 1:  ITS Feedback and Scaffolding (PACIFIC I + II)
  • Session Chair: Erica Melis
    • Using Item Response Theory (IRT) to select hints in an ITS (Michael Timms)
    • What Level of Tutor Feedback is Best? (Leena Razzaq, Neil Heffernan)
    • Evaluation of ACED: The Impact of Feedback and Adaptivity on Learning (Valerie Shute, Eric Hansen, Russell Almond)
    • Modeling learning patterns of students with a tutoring system using Hidden Markov Models (Carole Beal, Sinjini Mitra, Paul Cohen)*
  • Track 2:  Linguistics and Language Technologies (PROMENADE)
  • Session Chair: Kurt VanLehn
    • Combining Bayesian Networks and Formal Reasoning for Semantic Classification of Student Utterances (Maxim Makatchev, Kurt VanLehn)
    • A Spoken Translation Game for Second Language Learning (Chao Wang, Stephanie Seneff)
    • English ABLE (Diego Zapata-Rivera, Waverely  VanWinkle, Valerie  Shute, Jody  Underwood, Malcolm  Bauer)
    • Using Machine Learning Techniques to Analyze and Support Mediation of Student E-Discussions (Bruce McLaren, Oliver Scheuer, Maarten De Laat, Rakheli Hever, Reuma De Groot, Carolyn Rose)
  • Interactive Events 2 (PALISADES - lower level)
  • - Ontological Domain Modeling of Constraint-Based ITS
  • Young Researcher Track and Doctoral Consortium 4: Metacognition (PACIFIC III)
    • Understanding Students’ Conception of Knowledge and How It Is Linked to Knowledge Monitoring in Ill-Structured Subjects: The Potential of Representational Tools to Support Learning (Katerina Avramides)
    • Toward a Generic Cognitive Model of Knowledge Representation – A Case Study of Problem Solving in DC Electrical Circuits (Amir Abdessemed, Mehni Najjar, Andre Mayers, Habib Hamam)
    • Developing a General Model for Suppporting Self-Explanation for Intelligent Tutoring Systems (Amali Weerasinghe)
    • Incorporating Reflection Prompts into Learning-by-Teaching Environment to Foster Reflective Student Teacher (Longkai Wu)

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Paper session V:
  • Track 1:  ITS Feedback and Scaffolding  (PACIFIC I + II)
  • Session Chair: Judy Kay
    • Exploring Alternative Methods for Error Attribution in Learning Curves Analysis in Intelligent Tutoring Systems (Adaeze Nwaigwe, Kenneth  Koedinger, Kurt VanLehn, Robert Hausmann, Anders Weinstein)
    • Learning by Problem-Posing as Sentence-Integration and Its Evaluation (Hirashima Tsukasa, Takuto Yokoyama, Masahiko Okamoto, Akira Takeuchi)
    • Dialog Convergence and Learning (Arthur Ward, Diane Litman)
    • Comparing Linguistic Features for Modeling Learning in Computer Tutoring (Kate Forbes-Riley, Diane Litman, Amruta Purandare, Mihai Rotaru, Joel Tetreault)
  • Track 2:  Linguistics and Language Technologies - Tutorial Dialogue  (PROMENADE)
  • Session Chair: Art Graesser
    • Analyzing the Coherence and Cohesion in Human Tutorial Dialogues when Learning with Hypermedia (Roger Azevedo, Moongee Jeon)
    • Beyond the code-and-count analysis of tutoring dialogues (Stellan Ohlsson, Barbara Di Eugenio, Bettina Chow, Davide Fossati, Xin Lu, Trina Kershaw)
    • Profiling Student Interactions in Threaded Discussions with Speech Act Classifiers (Sujith Ravi, Jihie Kim)
    • The Influence of Learner Characteristics on Task-Oriented Tutorial Dialogue (Kristy Boyer, Mladen  Vouk, James  Lester)*
  • Young Researcher Track and Doctoral Consortium 5 (PACIFIC III)
    • Addressing the challenge of assessment with an intelligent tutoring system  (Mingyu Feng)
    • Teacher's Dilemma: A meta-game palyed by reciprocal peer tutors (Ari Bader-Natal)
    • The development of a self-regulated learning questionnaire for computer-based learning environments (Moon-Heum Cho)
    • Advancing the state of inquiry learning tutors for ill-defined domains  (Toby Dragon)
    • Visual representation of the ill-defined problem solving process (Genevieve Gauthier )
    • Towards a virtual teaching agent assistant to answer questions asked by students in introductory computer science (Cecily Heiner)
    • Chatbots in negotiated learner modelling (Alice Kerly)
    • Design and flexible development of agent-based interactive learning environments (Ig Pinto)

15:05 - 16:35 Paper session VI:
  • Track 1:  Learner Modelling (PACIFIC I + II)
  • Session Chair: Tanja Mitrovic
    • Comparing Student-Constructed Open Learner Model Presentations to the Domain (Andrew Mabbott, Susan Bull)
    • Translation of Overlay Models of Student Knowledge for Relative Domains Based on Domain Ontology Mapping (Sergey Sosnovsky, Peter Dolog, Nicola Henze, Peter Brusilovsky, Wolfgang Nejdl)
    • Bootstrapping Accurate Learner Models from Electronic Portfolios (Zinan Guo, Jim Greer)
    • Taking advantage of the Semantics of a Lesson Graph based on Learning Objects (Olivier Motelet, Nelson Baloian, Benjamin Piwowarski, JosČ A. Pino)
  • Track 2:  Collaboration (PROMENADE)
  • Session Chair: Carolyn Rose
    • Measuring the effect of collaboration in an assessment environment (Beatriz Barros, Ricardo Conejo, Eduardo Guzman)
    • Tutorial Dialogue as Adaptive Collaborative Learning Support (Rohit Kumar, Carolyn Rose, Mahesh Joshi, Yi-Chia Wang, Yue  Cui, Allen Robinson)*
    • Creating contexts for productive peer collaboration: some design considerations (Amanda Harris, Rosemary Luckin, Nicola  Yuill)
    • Who Says Three's a Crowd? Using a Cognitive Tutor to Support Peer Tutoring (Erin Walker, Bruce McLaren, Nikol Rummel, Ken Koedinger)
  • Young Researcher Track and Doctoral Consortium 6 (PACIFIC III)
    • Developing a learner-centric afftective model (Sidney D’Mello)
    • Coping with frustration: Self-efficacy modelling and empathetic companion agents (Scott McQuiggan)
    • Scaffolding learning with an embodied agent supported with an attention management system (Inge Molenaar)
    • Fine-grade student modeling with Bayesina networks (Zach Pardos)
    • Optimizing learning in an intelligent tutoring system  (Leena Razzaq)
    • Dynamic recommnedations to support 'all' in open standard-based adaptive learning environments (Olga Santos)
    •  Automating the generation of student models for intelligent tutoring systems (John Stamper)
    • Guiding scientific discovery learning with adaptive interactive narrative (James M. Thomas)
       
16:40 - 17:40 Poster Session I & Refreshments (SIERRA I + II)
18:00 - 21:00 Reception/dinner (BAYVIEW ROOM)
Friday July 13, 2007 - Main conference, day 3
08:00 - 09:00 Registration (lobby level - outside CALIFORNIA BALLROOM)
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote:  Tak-Wai Chan, National Central University of Taiwan
The Technical Art of Learning Science
(SIERRA I + II)
10:00 - 10:30 Refreshments
10:30 - 12:00 Paper session VII:
  • Track 1:  Course-Based Experimentation (PACIFIC I + II)
  • Session Chair: Jim Greer
    • Accelerated Future Learning via Explicit Instruction of a Problem Solving Strategy (Min Chi, Kurt  VanLehn)
    • Explaining self-explaining: A contrast between content and generation (Robert Hausmann, Kurt VanLehn)*
    • Out of the Lab and into the Classroom: An Evaluation of Reflective Dialogue in Andes (Sandra Katz, John Connelly, Christine Wilson)
    • Can a Polite Intelligent Tutoring System Lead to Improved Learning Outside of the Lab? (Bruce McLaren, Sung-Joo Lim, Dave Yaron, Ken Koedinger)
  • Track 2:  Authoring Tools and Ontologies (PROMENADE)
  • Session Chair: Vincent Aleven
    • Lowering the Bar for Creating Model-Tracing Intelligent Tutoring Systems (Stephen Blessing, Stephen Gilbert, Steven Ourada, Steven Ritter)
    • Constraint Authoring System: An Empirical Evaluation (Pramuditha Suraweera, Antonija  Mitrovic , Brent  Martin)
    • Predicting Students Performance with SimStudent that Learns Cognitive Skills from Observation (Noboru Matsuda, William W. Cohen, Gustavo  Lacerda, Kenneth R.  Koedinger)
    • Is Over Practice Necessary? - Improving Learning Efficiency with the Cognitive Tutor through Educational Data Mining (Hao Cen, Ken Koedinger, Brian Junker)
  • Track 3:  Data Mining (PACIFIC III)
  • Session Chair: Riichiro Mizoguchi
    • Investigating Generative Factors of Score Matrices (Titus Winters, Christian R. Shelton, Tom Payne)
    • How did the e-learning session go? - The Student Inspector (Oliver Scheuer, Claus Zinn)
    • Can a Computer Listen for Fluctuations in Reading Comprehension? (Xiaonan Zhang, Jack Mostow, Joseph Beck)
    • Empowering researchers to detect interaction patterns in electronic discussion and collaboration (Andreas Harrer, Rakheli Hever, Sabrina Ziebarth)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Poster Session II (SIERRA I + II)
14:15 - 15:00 AIED Society general meeting (PACIFIC I + II)
15:00 - 15:30 Farewell (PACIFIC I + II)