Projects

 

ONR/MURI
Office of Naval Research

This project will advance scientific theories and empirical research in several fields, but particularly the fields of education, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, discourse processing, and computational linguistics. This project is being developed at the University of Memphis and the University of Pittsburgh under an Office of Naval Research MURI Grant. The ultimate goal of the work is to develop a tutoring system to teach conceptual physics.

NSF
National Science Foundation

This grant sparks new work on the AutoTutor System to further develop the ideas that stemmed from an earlier National Science Foundation Grant. Work this time around is focusing on the further development of ideal tutoring strategies, studies into animated conversational agents, transferring AutoTutor to be a web based facility, as well as investigations in the development of authoring tools. AutoTutor teaches students computer literacy topics in a mixed initiative dialog setting.

HURAA
Department of Defense

To educate the both civilian and military researchers in the proper use of human subjects the Institute for Defense Analyses approached the Institute for Intelligent Systems to develop a web based system to aid and educate researchers, officials, and IRB members in the proper use of human subjects as well as IRB protocols. The Human Use Regulatory Affairs Advisor was blossomed into a conversational web agent that assists researchers and other personnel in following Institutional Review Board (IRB) policies for the use of human subject protocols.