Games and Intelligent Tutoring

An Intelligent Tutoring System for Japanese Languages Particles with User Assessment and Feedback
In recent years, an increasing number of Ateneo students are taking an interest in the Japanese language. For Ateneo students beginning their study of the language however, Japanese particles are difficult concepts because they cannot be translated to equivalent words in English. For a beginner learner, it is inevitable to view a second language with the lens of a first language as shown by the concept of transfer in second language acquisition.
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Developing An Informative Philippine Mythology RPG Using The Unity Game Engine
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Designing an Alternate Reality Game Within the Ateneo Community as a Medium for Tangential Learning
Alternate reality games are commonly used for promotional purposes despite having great potential for encouraging collaboration. Some educational alternate reality games have been created to take advantage of the pedagogical benefits that alternate reality games provide. The aim of this thesis is to design an alternate reality game for play within the Ateneo community and test its effectiveness within the said community.
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Internship opportunities with Nara Institute of Science and Technology

On January 9, Marc Santos of the Interactive Media Design Lab (IMDL) of Nara Institute of Science and Technology presented an internship opportunity for incoming fourth year and graduating BS Computer Science students.  The internship allows students to spend 30 days at the IMDL developing an educational augmented reality application.  Click on this link for Mr. Santos’s presentation materials.

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Dr. Joseph Beck visits ALLS

Helping us welcome the new year, Dr. Joseph Beck of Worcester Polytechnic institute met with students and faculty of the Ateneo Laboratory for the Learning Sciences on January 7, 2013.  Dr. Beck listened to presentations from the senior theses groups as well as Thor Collin Andallaza (MSCS) and offered suggestions about how the groups might proceed in their work. We thank Dr. Beck for his time, his interest, and most of all for the knowledge and experience he so generously shared!

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ALLS presents at First International Workshop on ICT Trends in Emerging Economies (WICTTEE) Photos

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Call for Papers for the 4th International Workshop on Empathic Comptuing

The 4th International Workshop on Empathic Computing
(http://www.ai.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/IWEC2013/)  will be held in conjunction with the 2013 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence to be held in Beijing, China. The workshop solicits original papers on the area of affective and empathic computing.

The important dates are as follows:

Submission of Abstracts: April 15, 2013
Submission of Full Papers: April 20, 2013
Paper Acceptance Notification: May 20, 2013
Camera-ready paper submission: May 30, 2013
IWEC-13: August 3-5, 2013

Paper Submission and Proceedings

Submitted papers must be formatted according to IJCAI guidelines and submitted electronically through the paper submission system. Full instructions including formatting guidelines and electronic templates are available on the IJCAI 2013 website.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference to present the work. Authors will be required to agree to this requirement at the time of submission.

Please see attached [CFP]for more details.

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