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People at CARTE

W. Lewis Johnson  directs the Center for Advanced Research in Technology for Education. His work involves the application of artificial intelligence to education and training.

Erin Shaw  is a Research Computer Scientist at CARTE. Her research focuses on creating pedagogically motivating software and modelling and assessing student knowledge especially in the engineering and health sciences, and applying advanced technologies to distance learning.

Catherine M. LaBore  is an anthropologist and media producer. She produces digital media for the CARTE group's researchers, and contributes her knowledge of social theory to relevant research. She received a Masters Degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Arizona in 1990, and a Masters Degree in Visual Anthropology from USC in 1994.

Jeff Rickel  is a Project Leader at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute and a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science. His research focuses on intelligent agents for education and training, especially animated agents that collaborate with people in virtual reality. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

Sander Kole  

Ning Wang  is a PhD student at USC specializing in Intelligent Agents

Hyok Yeong Lee  is a Ph.D. student at Computer Science department. Her work is in Social and Artificial Intelligence.

Lei Qu  is a Ph.D student at USC. His current research is concentrated on social intelligent agents.

Mattijs Ghijsen  is a graduate student from the University of Twente (the Netherlands) and he worked on a politeness model and the natural language generator.

Brett Rutland  

Teresa Dey  

Herwin Van Welbergen  is an exchange student from the University of Twente (the Netherlands). His work involves extending the scope of a natural language generator and building a "Wizard of Oz" user interface so human tutors can test it.

Our Collaborators


Paola Rizzo, University of Rome "La Sapienza"   is a cognitive scientist working on lifelike and pedagogical agents; she visited the CARTE group in 2001 and 2003

Helen Pain, University of Edinburg