Category Archives: Uncategorized

The EDM Workbench was conceptualized by Ryan Baker of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Bruce McLaren of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. The workbench will allow learning scientists to 1) define and modify behavior categories of interest (e.g., gaming, unresponsiveness, … Continue reading →

The researchers undertaking this project aim to develop several emotionally intelligent ECAs that can recognize and respond effectively to user affect.  The project begins with a selection of application areas for which it may be possible to build an ECA.  These application … Continue reading →

Thesis Title: Development of an Affect-Sensitive Game Agent Thesis Abstract: Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), a communication link between the brain of a user and a computer, have found their way into the gaming industry. This paper is a continuation to a … Continue reading →

Thesis title:Extension of an Intelligent Tutoring System for Novice Programmers Thesis Abstract: Debugging, in the simplest terms, is locating errors in a source code and fixing them. Among these errors are non-literal errors–errors that are incorrectly addressed by compiler error … Continue reading →