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Collaborative Research with Students: 2002 – present

NOTE: Department faculty in bold, *indicates student co-authors

Books, Journal Publications, or Published Conference proceedings Co-authored with Students or Former Students

Graesser, A. C., Hu, X., Person, N. K., *Jackson, G. T, & Toth, J.  (2002).  Modules and information retrieval facilities of the human use regulatory affairs advisor (HURAA).  Proceedings for E-Learn 2002:  World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education  (pp. 353-360).  Montreal, Canada:  AACE.  (Received Outstanding Paper Award)

Graesser, A. C., Hu, X., Person, N. K., *Jackson, G. T., & Toth, J. (2004). Modules and information retrieval facilities of the Human Use Regulatory Affairs Advisor (HURAA).  International Journal on eLearning, 29-39.

Graesser, A. C., Hu, X., Person, N. K., Stewart, C., Toth, J., *Jackson, G. T., Susarla, S., & Ventura, M. (2002).  Learning about the ethical treatment of human subjects in experiments on a web facility with a conversational agent and ITS components.  In S. A. Cerri, G. Gouarderes, & F. Paraguacu (Eds.)  Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2002 Proceedings (pp. 821-830).  Berlin:  Springer-Verlag.

Graesser, A. C., *Jackson, G. T., *Mathews, E.C., Mitchell, H. H., Olney, A., Chipman, P., Franceschetti, D., Hu, X., Louwerse, M. M., Person, N. K., & The Tutoring Research Group (in press).  Why/AutoTutor:  A test of learning gains from a physics tutor with natural language dialog.  Proceedings of the 2003 Cognitive Science Society.  Boston, MA.

Graesser, A. C., *Jackson, G. T., Olney, A., Person, N. K., & Chipman, P. (in press). AutoTutor: A Tutoring System with an Animated Conversational Agent and Mixed-initiative Dialogue.  In S. Chipman, A. C. Graesser, N. K. Person, and J. Moore (eds.), The Gift of Tongues:  True Natural Language Interaction for Intelligent Tutoring Systems.  Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. 

Graesser, A.C., Person, N. K., *Jackson, G. T., & Lin, D. (2005). Dialogue Patterns in Human Tutors and AutoTutor.

Graesser, A. C., Ventura, M., *Jackson, G. T., *Mueller, J., Hu, X., & Person, N. K. (in press).  The impact of conversational navigational guides on the learning, use, and perceptions of users of a web site.  To appear in Proceedings of the 2003 AAAI Spring Symposium:  Natural Language Generation in Spoken and Written Dialogue.  Palo Alto, CA:  AAAI Press.
 
*Jackson, T., *Mueller, J., Person, N., & Graesser, A.C. (2001).  Assessing the pedagogical effectiveness and conversational appropriateness in three versions of AutoTutor.  In J.D. Moore, C.L. Redfield, & W.L. Johnson (Eds.) Artificial intelligence in education: AI-ED in the wired and wireless future  (pp. 263-267).  Amsterdam: OIS Press.

*Jackson, G. T., Person, N. K., & Graesser, A. C. (2004). Adaptive tutorial dialogue in AutoTutor. In ITS 2004 Workshop Proceedings on Dialog-based Intelligent Tutoring Systems (pp. 9-13). Maceio, Brazil: Springer-Verlag.

*Mathews, E. C., *Jackson, G. T., Person, N. K., & Graesser, A. C., (in press).  Discourse patterns in Why/AutoTutor.  To appear in the Proceedings of the 2003 AAAI Spring Symposium:  Natural Language Generation in Spoken and Written Dialogue.  Palo Alto, CA:  AAAI Press. 

Moreno, K. N., Person, N. K., Adcock, A. B., Van Eck, R. N., *Jackson, G. T., & Marineau, J. C.  (2002).  Etiquette and efficacy in animated pedagogical agents:  The role of stereotypes.  Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium:  Etiquette for Human Computer Work (pp. 77-80).  Falmouth, MA:  AAAI Press.

Person, N. K., *Erkel, M., Graesser, A. C.,  & The Tutoring Research Group.  (2002).  Human or computer:  AutoTutor passes the bystander Turing test.  Proceedings for E-Learn 2002:  World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education  (pp. 353-360).  Montreal, Canada:  AACE.

Person, N. K., Hancock, J. T., *Burke, D. R., & Graesser, A. C. (2004). A linguistic model that infers user states and traits. In ITS 2004 Workshop Proceedings on Social and Emotional Intelligence in Learning Environments. Maceio, Brazil Springer-Verlag.

Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., Bautista, L., *Mathews, E. C., & the Tutoring Research Group (2001).  Evaluating student learning gains in two versions of AutoTutor. In J. D. Moore, C. L. Redfield, & W. L. Johnson (Eds.) Artificial intelligence in education: AI-ED in the wired and wireless future (pp. 286-293). Amsterdam, IOS Press.

Walton, M. D.  & *Brewer, C. L.  (2001).   The role of personal narrative in bringing children into the moral discourse of their culture.  Narrative Inquiry, 11 (2), 1-28.

Presentations or posters at National or International Professional Conferences

Addison, S.,  Mueller, J. & Wetzel, C. W. (2003, March).  Deception detection in the game show To Tell the Truth.  Presented at the Annual Convention of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.

*Arnold, L., *Copeland, J., *Knipshild, K., *Scott, C., & Steel, J. E.  (2007, May).  Does it really pay to be pretty?  Attractive and unattractive-leniency in justice-seeking.  Paper presented at the convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C.

Davis, A.A. & *Alburty, S. (2006, September).  Dimensions of Diversity:  What focus groups uncover about the classroom.  Paper presented at the Race and Pedagogy National Conference, Tacoma, WA.

Davis, A. A., Avant, S. K., & *Richelson, J., (2004, September).  Examining The Role of Community-Based Youth Programs in Reducing Youth Violence: Exploring Techniques for Recruitment and Retention.  Paper presented at the Ninth International Conference on Family Violence, San Diego, CA.

Davis, A. A., *Matthews, M., *Smith, M., & Shirley, C. (2007, June). Analysis of narratives of GLBT students:  Implications for improving campus climate.  Poster presented at the 11th Biennial Conference of the Society for Community Research and Action, Pasadena, CA.

Davis, A. A.,*Moore, J., *Wright, P. A., *Marino, D. G., Walker, K., & *Swinney, S. (2001).  Understanding and fostering resiliency in adolescent mothers.  Poster presented at the Third Conference on Minority Issues in Prevention, Tempe, AZ.

Davis, A. A., *Wall, M. S., *McEnery, J. B., & *Harris, A. R. (2004, July).  Exploring Home Visitation Workers’ Experiences with Adolescent Mothers.  Poster presented at the 112th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, HA.

Davis,  A. Shirley, C. D., Wetzel, C., & and *Davis, F. M.  (2006, August) Cultural Competence on a Predominately White Liberal Arts Campus. Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, La.

Graesser, A. C., Hu, X., Person, N. K., *Jackson, G. T., & Toth, J.  (2002), October).  Modules and Information retrieval facilities of the human use regulatory affairs advisor (HURAA).  Presented at E-Learn 2002:   World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, Y Higher Education, Montreal, CAnanda:  AACE.

Graesser, A. C., Hu, X., Person, N. K., Stewart, C., Toth, J., *Jackson, G. T., Susarla, S., & Ventura, M. (2002, June).  Learning about the ethical treatment of human subjects in experiments on a web facility with a conversational agent and ITS components.  Presented at Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2002, Biarritz, France.

Graesser, A. C., *Jackson, G. T. & Person, N. K. (2004, April). AutoTutor: An adaptive computer tutor that simulates human tutoring. Presented at the 2004 AERA Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA.

*Harris, A. R., Walton, M. D., & *Keller, S. L.  (2005, June).   Narratives of Conflict Interactions:  Children’s Construction of Emotions and Conflict Resolution.  Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Vancouver, Canada.

*Jackson, G. T., Olney, A., Graesser, A., & Kim, H. J. (2006., July). AutoTutor 3-D Simulations: Analyzing Users’ Actions and Learning Trends. To appear in conference proceedings of Cognitive Science, Vancouver, Canada.

*Jackson, G. T., Person, N. K., & Graesser, A. C. (2003, January).  The relationship between dialog move type and student ability in AutoTutor.  Presented at the Winter Conference on Discourse, Text, and Cognition, Jackson Hole, WY.

*Jackson, G. T., Person, N. K., & Graesser, A. C. (2004, September). Adaptive tutorial dialogue in AutoTutor. Presented at ITS 2004 Workshop on Dialog-based Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Maceio, Brazil.

*Keller, S. L.,  Walton, M. D., & Nicolopoulou, A. (2006, June).  Narrative Performance and the Creation of Local Culture in Two Preschool Classrooms.  Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Baltimore, MD.

Kim, H. J., Graesser, A., *Jackson, G. T., Olney, A., & Chipman, P. (2005, Oct). The  Effectiveness of Computer Simulations in a Computer based Learning Environment. Proceedings for the e-learning 2005:World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Health Care, and Higher Education, Vancouver, Canada:AACE.

Kim, H. J., Graesser, A., *Jackson, T. G., *Poole, L. D., *Sadkin, J, *Ray, A., & Haynes, B. (2005, January) Incorporating Interactive Simulations and Dialogues into Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Presented at the annual meeting of Winter Text and Cognition, Jackson, Wyoming.

Kim, H. J., *Jackson, T.G., Graesser, A., *Sadkin, J., Olney, A., & Chipman, P. (2006, April). Using Interactive Simulations in Science Education: Can They be Effective? American Educational Research Association, San Francisco. 

Kim, H. J., *Sears, L., *Donley, S., *Hathaway, A., *Hilliard, L., & Millis, K. K. (2004, August). Facts in Fiction: The effect of Expository versus Narrative Text on Comprehension. Presented at the 15th Annual Society for Text and Discourse, Chicago, IL.

Kim, H. J., *Waldo, L., Sinclair, G., McNamara, D. (2005, Aug). Are Animated Agents Helpful in Teaching Reading Strategies in a Computer Environment? Presented at the 15th Annual Meetings of the Society for Text and Discourse, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

*Lehman, B., *Jones, L., *Kimbrough, L., *Green, M., Kim, H. J. (2006, May). Laughing in the Face of Anxiety. Annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, New York.

Lupo, A., *Miller, J. Marshall, A. Watson, D. Slatcher, R. B. (2007, January). Loving You or Just Loving Life?: Examining the links between Partner-directed affect, generalize affect and relationship quality.  Annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Memphis, TN.

Moreno, K. N., Person, N., K., Adcock, A. B., Van Eck, R. N., *Jackson, G. T., & Marineau, J. C. (2002, November).  Etiquette and efficacy in animated pedagogical agents:  The role of stereotypes.  Presented at 2002 AAAI Fall Symposiium:  Etiquette for Human Computer Work, Falmouth, MA.

Person, N. K., *Erkel, M., Graesser, A. C.,  & The Tutoring Research Group.  (2002, October).  AutoTutor passes the bystander Turing test.  Presented at E-Learn 2002:  World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education.  Montreal, Canada:  AACE.
 
Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., *Breitmeyer, A., *Browder, L., *Brownyard, K., & the Tutoring Research Group (2002). Human or computer? AutoTutor in a Bystander Turing Test. Presented at the Winter Conference on Discourse, Text, and Cognition, Jackson Hole, WY.

Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., *Jackson, G. T., & Lin, D. (2004, August). Dialog sequences and feedback patterns that promote learning. Presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Chicago, IL.

Person, N. K., *Moses, J., *Willson, W. (2007, April). Question Asking in Expert and Non-Expert Tutoring Sessions.  Presented at the 2007 AERA Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL.

Person, N. K., Petschonek, S., *Gardner, P. C., *Bray, M. D., & *Lancaster, W. (2005, July).  Linguistic Features of Interviews about Alcohol Use in Different Conversational Media. To be presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

*Prescott, L., Davis, A. A., *Taylor, L. (2001).  Female adolescents’ natural mentors: Comparing support form family vs. nonfamily members.  Poster presented at the Third Conference on Minority Issues in Prevention, Tempe, AZ. 

*Stagg, A. C.,  *Etz, M. N., *Harris, A. R., & Walton, M. D.  (2007, May).  Emergence of Othermindedness and Moral Evaluation in Inner-city Children’s Personal Narratives.   Association for Psychological Science, Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.

Ventura, M., Person, N. K., *Jackson, G. T., Graesser, A. C., Hu, X., & Toth, J. (2002). Evaluating learning outcomes in an interactive web-based learning system. To be presented at the Winter Conference on Discourse, Text, and Cognition, Jackson Hole, WY.

Walton, M. D., *Cannon, T. J., *Mossman, P. K., *Harris, A. R. (2003, June).  “She was playing but I was for real”:  Teasing, namecalling, and the negotiation of identity in middle childhood.  Presented at the 33rd Annual Meetings of the Jean Piaget Society, Chicago, IL.

Walton, M. D., *Davidson, A. J., & *Kane, H. S.  (2002).   “It makes me a man from the beating I took”: Accounts of physical violence in the narratives of inner-city boys and girls.  Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Philadelphia, PA.

Walton, M. D., & *Harris, A. R.  (2002, May).  “I couldn’t stay mad forever”:  Emotion talk in children’s narratives about interpersonal conflict.  Presented at the 15th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, Atlanta, GA.

Walton, M. D., & *Harris, A. R. (2007, May).  Using an Electronic Discussion Forum to Enhance Service-Learning Pedagogy and Relationships with Participating Community Agencies.   Developmental Science Teaching Institute, Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Convention.  Boston. 

Walton, M. D., *Harris, A. R., *Cannon, T. (2004, June).  Literary Voice, Moral Voice, and Becoming a Cultural Critic in Middle Childhood.  Paper presented at the 34th  Annual Meetings of the Jean Piaget Society, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Walton, M. D., & *Harris, A. R., & *Hansen, J.  (2006, June).  Narrative Voice and Children’s Understanding of Self and Others.  Narrative Matters: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Narrative Research, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Walton, M. D., *Struby, J. D., & *Cantrell, B. C. (2002, May).  Children’s responses to real and hypothetical peer conflict.  Presented at the 15th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, Atlanta, GA.

Presentations at Regional or National Undergraduate Research Conferences (all authors are students; faculty are bolded)

Albury, S., Novotny, R., Spellings, L, & Waldo, L. (2005, February).  The Effects of Racism on College Campuses.  Presented at the annual Mid-South Psychology Conference, Memphis, TN.

Andrews, M., Swinney, S., & Cain, F. (2002).  Evaluation of a faith-based abstinence intervention program.  Mid-south Psychology Conference, Jackson, TN.

Davidson, A. J. (2002).  Gender and aggression in African-American children’s oral narratives about peer conflict. Mid-south Psychology Conference, Jackson, TN. (Honorable Mention)

Davidson, A. J., & Walton, M. D. (2002).   “It’s wrong to tell a lie when you know it’s a lie”: Moral discourse and aggression in African-American children’s narratives about peer conflict. Council for Undergraduate Research, Posters on the Hill, Washington, D.C.

Erkel, M., Garner, C., & Romine, L. (2002).  Examining the results of AutoTutor in a Bystander Turing Test.  Rhodes Undergraduate Research and Creativity Activity Symposium, Memphis, TN.

Erkel, M., Garner, C., & Romine, L. (2002).  Human or computer? You decide.  AutoTutor in a Bystander Turing Test.  Rhodes Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium, Memphis, TN.

Flinn, M., Martin, T., & Scott, J. (2004, November).  The Role of the Boys and Girls Clubs for High School Members.  Presented at the Undergraduate Poster Session, Tennessee Psychological Association, Nashville, TN. (Second Place in Poster Competition)

Hall, S., Toppins, A., & Westerman, M.  (2004, April).  Boys and Girls Clubs Members:  Healthy Lifestyles and Risky Behaviors.  Presented at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Indianapolis, IN. 

Harris, L., Kim, H-J. J, Dean, K, & Walker, A.  (2005, February).  The Effects of Diagram Complexity on the Recall of Science Texts.  Presented at the annual Mid-South Psychology Conference, Memphis, TN.

Hearst, A., Brynnan, C., O’Brien, M., & Porter, E., Kim, H.J. (2004, April). Hand it over:  Assessment of Stereotypes concerning Left-handed People. Presented at the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association Conference, Reno, Texas.

Hearst, A., & Mossman, P. (2004, November).  Home Visitation Workers’ Perceptions of Their Goals and Obstacles.  Presented at the Undergraduate Poster Session, Tennessee Psychological Association, Nashville, TN. (First Place in Poster Competition)

Hilliard, L. & McDonald, M. (2004, November).  The Effects of After-School Programs on Youth’s Behaviors in the Community.  Presented at the Undergraduate Poster Session, Tennessee Psychological Association, Nashville, TN.

Houts, C. R. (2002).  Protective aspects of lives of lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth: an explanation of factors affecting substance abuse.  Rhodes Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium, Memphis, TN. (Second place in social sciences.)

Johnson, S., Moses, J., Novotny, R., Thomas, J., & Weller, R.  (2004, March). The Effect of Media Format on Source Recognition.  Presented at the Mid-south Psychology Conference, Memphis, TN.

Jorge, Ben. (2005, February). Naming the Self: Measuring Implicit Self-Esteem. Presented at the annual Mid-South Psychology Conference, Memphis, TN.

Kane, H. S. (2002).   How language reflects the underlying process of adult attachment.  Rhodes Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium, Memphis, TN.

Kemp, H. (2002).  The influence of gender and social role on interpersonal competence in close relationships. Mid-south Psychology Conference, Jackson, TN. (Honorable Mention)

Kim, H. J., Johnson, S., Moses, J., Novotny, R., Thomas, J., & Weller, R. (2004, March). The Effect of Media Format on Source Recognition of News Articles.  Presented at the Mid-south Psychology Conference, Memphis, TN. 

Labrecque, J., Morrie, A., & Patterson, M. (2004, February).  The Relationship Between Social Support and Depression Levels in Adolescent Mothers.  Mid-South Psychology Conference, Memphis, TN. 

Levine, L. (2003, February).  Exploring the influence of social support on adolescent mothers’ educational aspirations.  Presented at at the MidSouth Psychology Conference, Lambuth University, Jackson, TN.

McBride, M.  (2003, May).  Peer mentoring programs and self-monitoring in individuals with spinal cord injury.  Presented at the Stanford Undergraduate Psychology Conference, Palo Alto, CA.

Panter, J. & Harris, L (2006, January).  Identity & Racial Attitudes. Second Annual Cultural Competency Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.

Pera, N., Binford, B., & Bissinger, B. (2002).  Stereotyping Animated Agents.  Rhodes Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium, Memphis, TN.

Pool, L.  (2004, April).  Condemning Racism: Consequences for Linguistic Biases. Presented at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Indianapolis, IN. 

Porter, E. (2005, February).  Body Image:   A Motivating Factor in Urban Adolescents’ Sexual Abstinence.  Presented at the annual Mid-South Psychology Conference, Memphis, TN.

Sears, L., Hathaway, A., Hilliard, L., Donley, S. & Kim, H. J  (2003, April) Facts in fiction:  The effect of text type on reading comprehension.  Presented at the Southeastern Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference, University of Alabama at Birmingham.  Also presented at the MidSouth Psychology Conference, Lambuth University, Jackson, TN, where it won honorable mention.

Sears, Lindsay. (2005, February).  Blacks Tip Less: Truth or Merely an Illusion? Presented at the annual Mid-South Psychology Conference, Memphis, TN

Stagg, A. (2005, February).  The role of Affective States on Learning with Intelligent Tutoring Systems.  Presented at the annual MidSouth Psychology Conference, Memphis, TN

Vickers, E, Spellings, L., & Jorge, B. (March, 2004). What’s in a Name?: Implicit Egotism and the Name-Letter Effect. Presented at the Mid-south Psychology Conference, Memphis, TN. 

Waldo, L., Spellings, L., Novotny, R., & Albury, S. (2005, February).  The Effects of Racism on a Private College Campus.  Mid-South Psychology Conference.  (First Place Poster Presentation)  Also presented at Southeastern Psychological Association Annual Convention, Nashville, TN)

Williamson, L., Guillot, M., & Laprease, C. (Oct, 2003). The Effectiveness of Animated Agents within iSTART. Presented at the FedEx Forum, Memphis, TN. 

Wright, A.,  (2002).  Adolescent pregnancy through educators’ eyes. Rhodes Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium, Memphis, TN. (First Place, social sciences.)

Wright, A., & Ward, L.  (2002).  Educators’ attitudes and their beliefs about the antecedents to adolescent pregnancy. Mid-south Psychology Conference, Jackson, TN. (First Place.)