(Apr 2026) Our “Intelligent Systems and Human Learning” lecture won the Busy Beaver Award (outstanding teaching award)! Our “Living AI-ducation Dashboard” seminar was also nominated for the award.
(July 2025) Wrapping up the semester with our lab members 😊
(July 2025) Our AIED25 paper, “The multi-dimensionality of student agency in learning with AI,” has been nominated for the best paper award!
(June 2025) We got an internal grant to support our work on AlgeSPACE, through collaborating with Prof. Dr. Maria Theobald in Trier!
(June 2025) Tomo has been appointed as one of the newly-selected Henriette Herz Scouts by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation! (University news)
(June 2025) Jeroen Ooge (Assist. Prof. at Utrecht) visited us. Thank you Jeroen!
(April 2025) Our work has been accepted at CHI LBW, IDC, AIED, ISLS, ECTEL, and CogSci! See you in Yokohama, Reykjavik, Palermo, Helsinki, Durham, and San Francisco!
(Feb 2025) Two proposals accepted for EARLI2025! We’ll be joining a symposium on teacher dashboards (by Sarah Bichler at LMU Munich) and present our work on AlgeSPACE.
(Dec 2024) Our lab’s end-of-year Christmas party!
(Oct 2024) Echo’s seminar and Tomo’s seminar both were nominated for the Busy Beaver (outstanding teaching) Award in our department, and Echo won the award! Congrats Echo!
Even though many students can solve linear systems of equations using three methods–equalization, substitution, and elimination–they do not necessarily have a good understanding of why and how each of these methods works in a conceptual way.Â
AlgeSPACE (Algebra Scaffolding with Pedagogical Agents and Concrete Examples) project started through a conversation with a high-school teacher in Germany where we discussed how we might create an interactive tool using concrete examples that teaches how to solve systems of equations.
The software (https://algespace.sic.saarland/) is freely available (in English and German) for teachers, students, and other education stakeholders for their own use.
Nagashima, T., Bonaventura, K., & Su, M. (2024). Parallel design: Achieving both researchers’ and practitioners’ goals in the design of an interactive learning system for mathematics. In Proceedings of the Learning, Design and Technology (LDT ’24), Delft, Netherlands. ACM. [link]
