(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!
Learning with educational software such as Intelligent Tutoring Systems can be boring (despite their demonstrated effectiveness). This project aims to address this issue by designing and evaluating a novel form of interaction for solving middle-school algebra problems. Working with two design and development interns, John Britti (Georgia Tech) and Xiran Wang (CMU), we have designed the drag-and-drop equation solving ITS and have tested the effectiveness of the software on student learning of algebra concepts, equation solving skills, and student engagement/motivation. We have been using data and teachers’ feedback to further re-design the interface and the model used.
Nagashima, T., Britti, J., Wang, X., Zheng, B., Turri, V., Tseng, S., & Aleven, V. (2022). Supporting engaging and effective algebra learning with gamified intelligent tutoring software. In Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL2022). [paper]
