[on behalf of Bruce McLaren]
Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh are looking for
a post-doc to work on a U.S. Department of Education IES funded project
aimed at adaptive dialogue within the context of an intelligent tutoring
system. The research will investigate how a student model can be used to
guide and adapt the tutorial dialogue of a physics tutor. The successful
candidate will have a Ph.D. and will be interested and experienced in both
research and development. Background in student modeling is essential,
with language technology experience and knowledge of physics desirable.
The work will involve identifying possible student modeling approaches from
the literature, implementing (or reusing) the modeling approaches to guide
an existing dialogue system of an intelligent tutor, designing experiments
to evaluate the approaches, conducting experiments at high schools,
and contributing to research publications. The project is a collaboration
of neighboring universities in Pittsburgh, PA, the University of Pittsburgh
and CMU, which are well-known institutions in the Learning Sciences and,
more specifically, in intelligent tutoring systems. The successful
candidate will have an opportunity to work with both state-of-the-art
student modeling techniques and language technology.
The project PI is Sandra Katz of the University of Pittsburgh, Co-PIs are
Pam Jordan and Patricia Albacete of the University of Pittsburgh and Bruce
McLaren of Carnegie Mellon University.
Interested parties should contact Bruce McLaren (bmclaren@xxxxxxxxxx).