Conferences

 

Graesser, A. C., Hu, X., Person, N. K. (2001, August). Teaching with the Help of Talking Heads. Presented at IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies. Madison, WI.

Person, N. K., Gholson, B., Craig, S., Hu, X., Stewart, C. O., & Graesser, A. C. (2001, June). HURAA: An Interactive Web-based Agent that Optimizes Information Retrieval in a Multi-media Environment. Presented at ED-MEDIA 2001: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications. Tampere, Finland.

Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., & the Tutoring Research Group (2001, June). AutoTutor in Two Content Domains. Presented at Language and Technologies 2001: 2nd Annual Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics. Pittsburgh, PA.

Graesser, A. C., Hu, X., Susarla, S., Harter, D., Person, N. K., Louwerse, M., Olde, B., & the Tutoring Research Group (2001, May). AutoTutor: An Intelligent Tutor and Conversational Tutoring Scaffold. Presented at the 10th International Conference of Artificial Intelligence in Education. San Antonio, TX.

Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., Bautista, L., Mathews, E. C., & the Tutoring Research Group (2001, May). Evaluating Student Learning Gains in Two Versions of AutoTutor. Presented at the 10th International Conference of Artificial Intelligence in Education. San Antonio, TX.

Jackson, G. T., Mueller, J. M., Person, N. K., & Graesser, A. C. (2001, May). Evaluating the Pedagogical Effectiveness and Conversational Appropriateness in
Three Versions of AutoTutor. To be presented at the 10th International Conference of Artificial Intelligence in Education. San Antonio, TX.

Person, N. K., Kreuz, R. J., Graesser, A. C., Rajan, S., Klettke, B., Pomeroy, V., Link, K., & the Tutoring Research Group (2001, April). An analysis of student learning gains after interacting with AutoTutor. Presented at the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, WA.

Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., Jackson, G. T., Mathew, E. C., & the Tutoring Research Group (2001, January). Evaluating student learning outcomes for two versions of AutoTutor. Presented at the Winter Conference on Discourse, Text, and Cognition, Jackson Hole, WY.

Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., Harter, D., Mathews, E. C., & the Tutoring Research Group (2000, November). Managing the tutorial interaction in AutoTutor. Presented at AAAI Fall Symposium Series, Falmouth, Massachusetts.

Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., Harter, D., & the Tutoring Research Group (2000, July). The Dialog Advancer Network: A mechanism for improving AutoTutor's conversational skills. Presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Lyon, France.

Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., & the Tutoring Research Group (2000, July). Controlling Autotutor's conversational behaviors. Presented at the Third Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, Bellagio, ltaly.

Graesser, A. C., Person, N. K., Harter, D., & the Tutoring Research Group (2000, June). Tactics in tutoring in AutoTutor. Presented at the ITS 2000 Workshop on Modeling Human Teaching Tactics and Strategies, Montreal, Canada.

Person, N. K., Bautista, L., Kreuz, R. J., Graesser, A. C., & the Tutoring Research Group (2000, June). "Hey, am I supposed to say something now?" : Managing the dialog in AutoTutor. Presented at the ITS 2000 Workshop on Modeling Human Teaching Tactics and Strategies, Montreal, Canada.

Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., & the Tutoring Research Group (2000, June). Designing AutoTutor to be an effective conversational partner. Presented at the 4th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. Ann Arbor, MI.

Person, N. K., Craig, C., Price, P., Hu, X., Gholson, B., Graesser, A. C., & the Tutoring Research Group. (2000, June) Incorporating human-like conversational behaviors into AutoTutor. Presented at the Agents 2000 Workshop on Achieving Human-like Behavior in Interactive Animated Agents, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Graesser, A. C., Wiemer-Hastings, K., Wiemer-Hastings, P., Harter, D., Person, N., & Kreuz, R. (1999, November). Latent semantic analysis can reliably evaluate student contributions in AutoTutor. Presented at the 40th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles.

Person, N. K., & Weimer-Hastings, P. (1999, November). AutoTutor: Ungrounded and proud of it. Presented at AAAI Fall Symposium Series, Falmouth, Massachusetts.

Person, N. K., Klettke, B., Link, K., Kreuz, R. J., and the Tutoring Research Group (1999, October). The integration of affective responses into AutoTutor. Presented at the i3net Workshop on Affect in Interactions: Towards a New Generation of Interfaces, Siena, Italy.

Klettke, B., Person, N. K., Graesser, A., Link, K., & Kreuz, R. J. (1999, October). Integrating affect into AutoTutor's feedback responses. Presented at the i3net Workshop on Affect in Interactions: Towards a New Generation of Interfaces, Siena, Italy.

Person, N. K., Kreuz, R. J., Pomeroy, V., & Klettke, B. (1999, August). AutoTutor's pedagogical effectiveness and conversational smoothness. Presented at the 9th Annual Society for Text and Discourse, Vancouver, Canada.

Person, N. K., Pomeroy, V., & Weeks, M. (1998, July). Tutor dialogue moves in naturalistic tutoring. Presented at the 8th Annual Society for Text and Discourse, Madison, WI.

Graesser, A. C., White, K. K., & Person, N. K. (1997, July). World knowledge and the situation model sometimes reign supreme in text comprehension and inference generation. Presented at the Workshop on Text Representation: Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Aspects, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Graesser, A. C., Olde, B., White, K. K., & Person, N. K. (1997, November). Who knows what? Reconstructing character knowledge in literary short stories. Presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Philadelphia, PA.

Person, N. K. (Invited Speaker) (1996, November). Evolution of discourse in cross-age tutoring. Presented at the Rutgers Invitations Symposium on Education, New Brunswick, NJ.

Person, N. K. (Symposium Chair) (1996, April). Human and computer tutoring. American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.

Person, N. K. (1996, April). Pedagogical strategies that are implemented during tutor-generated examples. Presented at the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.

Graesser, A. C., & Person, N. K. (1995, July). Tutoring by humans and by computers. Presented at the Society for Text and Discourse, Albuquerque, NM.

Person, N. K. (1995, June). An analysis of the pedagogical strategies that are implemented during tutor-generated examples. Presented at the American Psychological Society, New York, NY.

Person, N. K., & Graesser, A. C. (1994, July). Examples generated by tutors in one-to-one tutoring sessions. Presented at the American Psychological Society, Washington, DC.

Person, N. K., Kreuz, R. J., & Graesser, A. C. (1994, July). Conversational rules and politeness strategies may inhibit effective tutoring. Paper presented at the Society for Text and Discourse, Washington, DC.

Person, N. K., & Graesser, A. C. (1994, April). Text, tutoring, and literacy. Presented at the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.

Person, N. K., & Graesser, A. C. (1993, June). Determining students' understanding in one-to-one tutoring sessions. Presented at the Society for Text and Discourse, Boulder, CO.

Graesser, A. C., Magliano, J. P., Person, N. K., & Kreuz, R. J. (1993, June). Dialogue patterns and questioning during naturalistic tutoring. Presented at the Society for Text and Discourse, Boulder, CO.

Person, N. K., & Graesser, A. C. (1992, June). Question asking in tutoring sessions. Presented at the American Psychological Society, San Diego, CA.

Person, N. K., Magliano, J., & Graesser, A. C. (1992, June). The impact of reader goals, aesthetic experience, and literary aptitude on reading times for short stories. Presented at the Society for Text and Discourse, San Diego, CA.

Graesser, A. C., Kreuz, R., & Person, N. K. (1992, June). The assumptions behind questions in discourse. Presented at the Society for Text and Discourse, San Diego, CA.

Person, N. K. (1992, May). A symposium on theatrical productions. At the 3rd conference of the International Association for the Empirical Study of Literature, Memphis, TN.

Graesser, A. C., Huber, J. D., & Person, N. K. (1991, November). Question asking in tutoring sessions. Presented at the Psychonomic Society Conference, San Francisco, CA.