HCI International 2014

Dr. Robert Sottilare (short bio)
US Army Research Laboratory, United States

Dr. Anne Sinatra (short bio)
US Army Research Laboratory, United States

Monday, 23 June 2014, 09:00 - 17:30

Objectives:

The purpose of this tutorial is three-fold:

1. Familiarize participants with the fundamental principles of adaptive Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) design
2. Illustrate how ITS design influences/enables self-regulated learning
3. Discuss the need for standards for authoring of ITS, modeling of learners and experts, automated instructional strategies, and methods of analysis for ITS technologies

Content and Benefits:

• This tutorial will review the fundamental elements of ITSs and ITS design principles to aid the participant in understanding how ITS design influences and enables self-regulated learning. The tutorial will expose participants to the inner workings of ITSs and specifically to the design of an evolving standard, the Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT), an open source tutoring architecture. GIFT supports standards for authoring of ITS, modeling of learners and experts, automated instructional strategies, and methods of analysis of the effect of ITS technologies. Participants will understand and be able to evaluate ITS technologies based on learning effect. Participants will also be familiar with GIFT and be able to use GIFT to create ITSs to support self-regulated learning.
• Fundamental concepts reviewed during this tutorial include elements of the adaptive tutoring learning effect chain: learner data, learner states, instructional strategies and tactics, and learning effect. Topics include: individual learner and team assessment and modeling; instructional content, strategy and tactic selection; authoring and expert modeling; domain modeling; and effect size analysis to understand the impact of various adaptive tutoring methods. Participants will understand the basic elements of ITSs and be able to discern interaction and data shared between them.
• This tutorial will review and discuss the influence of ITS design on self-regulated learning where an "intelligent" computer guides learning and takes on some or all of the roles of a human instructor. Finally, this tutorial will examine the design of GIFT, an adaptive tutoring architecture to promote ITS standards and reuse. Participants will discuss and influence the design of future versions of GIFT.

Target Audience:

This tutorial is suitable for researchers, designers, developers, and instructors of all levels of experience:

• Beginners - exposure to the fundamentals of ITSs
• Journeymen - understanding of how ITS design influences SRL
• Experts - opportunities to influence future design of GIFT

Relevant Links:

• Learn more about adaptive tutoring research and GIFT.
• Sign up and download most recent version of GIFT and access our papers.
• Learn more about learner modeling by downloading our free book, Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Volume 1 - Learner Modeling.
• Friend us on Facebook.

Bio Sketch of Presenters:

Dr. Robert A. Sottilare serves as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Simulation & Training Technology Center (STTC) within the Army Research Laboratory’s Human Research and Engineering Directorate (ARL-HRED). He also leads adaptive tutoring research within ARL’s Learning in Intelligent Tutoring Environments (LITE) Laboratory where the focus of his research is in automated authoring, instructional management, and analysis tools and methods for intelligent tutoring systems. His work is widely published and includes recent articles in the Cognitive Technology and the Educational Technology Journals. Dr. Sottilare is a co-creator of the Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT) and chief editor for the Design Recommendations for ITSs series. He received his doctorate in Modeling & Simulation from the University of Central Florida with a focus in intelligent systems. In January 2012, he was honored as the inaugural recipient of the U.S. Army Research Development & Engineering Command’s Modeling & Simulation Lifetime Achievement Award.

Dr. Anne M. Sinatra is an Oak Ridge Associated Universities Post Doctoral Fellow in the Learning in Intelligent Tutoring Environments (LITE) Lab at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory’s (ARL) Simulation and Training Technology Center (STTC) in Orlando, FL. The focus of her research is in cognitive and human factors psychology. She has specific interest in how information relating to the self and about those that one is familiar with can aid in memory, recall, and tutoring. Her dissertation research evaluated the impact of using degraded speech and a familiar story on attention/recall in a dichotic listening task. Her work has been published in the journal Interaction Studies, and in the conference proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Prior to becoming a Post Doc, Dr. Sinatra was a Graduate Research Associate with UCF’s Applied Cognition and Technology (ACAT) Lab, and taught a variety of undergraduate Psychology courses. Dr. Sinatra received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Applied Experimental and Human Factors Psychology, as well as her B.S. in Psychology from the University of Central Florida.