News

March 26, 2002:

HURAA evaluation Study 3 gears up. The study is designed to investigate the efficacy of a web agent developed to teach and aid researchers, officials, and military personnel in the proper use and treatment of human subject in research, as well as IRB protocols.

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March 1, 2002:

Evaluation study of various tutoring systems in the domain of physics begins. The project, funded by the Office of Navy Research, is part of the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative. The Office of Naval Research grant is held jointly by the University of Memphis and the University of Pittsburgh. The evaluation is designed to look at 4 types of tutoring conditions, including 2 intelligent systems, Why/AutoTutor and Why/Atlas.

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January 31, 2002:

Question Answering Tool successfully tested. The module will begin to be integrated into the Why/AutoTutor System.

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December 20, 2001:

Think aloud protocol study successfully runs 6 subjects on the Why/AutoTutor System. Work will begin during the holiday to make need improvements in the system for the April 1, 2002 evaluation study.

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November 1, 2001:

Speech Act Classifier proves to successfully classify 87% of all statements and questions. nineteen question categories are successfully delineated. The goal of the future Spring 2002 project is to have finer grain classification within the assertion category.