Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 6th International Conference, ITS 2002, Biarritz, France and San Sebastian, Spain, June 2-7, 2002 Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2002, held in Biarritz, France, and San Sebastian, Spain, in June 2002
The 93 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers and 16 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 full paper submissions. The papers address all current issues in the interdisciplinary field of intelligent tutoring systems. The book offers topical sections on agents, architectures, Web, authoring, learning, dialogue, evaluation, narrative, and motivation and emotions.

Invited Presentation.- Living with Agents: From Human-Agent Teamwork to Cognitive Prostheses.- Computational Humor.- Large-Scale Introduction of E-learning at Universities throughout Europe.- A Roadmap of Epistemic Logics for Learning Agents.- ITS, Agents, BDI, and Affection: Trying to Make a Plan Come Together.- Agents.- An Intellectual Genealogy Graph Affording a Fine Prospect of Organizational Learning.- Group-Oriented Modelling Tools with Heterogeneous Semantics.- Social Network Analysis Used for Modelling Collaboration in Distance Learning Groups.- On the Social Rational Mirror: Learning E-commerce in a Web-Served Learning Environment.- Agents.- Including Malicious Agents into a Collaborative Learning Environment.- Learning with Virtual Agents: Competition and Cooperation in AMICO.- Adaptive Tutoring Processes and Mental Plans.- Agents.- Architectural Patterns in Pedagogical Agents.- DÓRIS — Pedagogical Agent in Intelligent Tutoring Systems.- Developing Distributed Intelligent Learning Environment with JADE — Java Agents for Distance Education Framework.- Architectures.- A Web-Based Intelligent Tutoring System Using Hybrid Rules as Its Representational Basis.- Using Vector-Space Model in Adaptive Hypermedia for Learning.- A System for the Specification and Development of an Environment for Distributed CSCL Scenarios.- Modelling of an Adaptive Hypermedia System Based on Active Rules.- Architectures.- The Architecture of Why2-Atlas: A Coach for Qualitative Physics Essay Writing.- Integrating Multimedia Technology, Knowledge Based System, and Speech Processing for the Diagnostic and Treatment of Developmental Dyslexia.- The Aplusix-Editor: A New Kind of Software for the Learning of Algebra.- Architectures.- LKC: Learning by Knowledge Construction.- Generating Intelligent Tutoring Systems from Reusable Components and Knowledge-Based Systems.- Evaluating and Revising Courses from Web Resources Educational.- Web.- Adaptive Postviewer for Constructive Learning in Hyperspace.- Adaptive Visualization Component of a Distributed Web-Based Adaptive Educational System.- Dynamic Profiling in a Real-Time Collaborative Learning Environment.- Dynamic Generation of an Interface for the Capture of Educational Metadata.- Web.- Ontology-Centered Personalized Presentation of Knowledge Extracted from the Web.- Ontological Support for Web Courseware Authoring.- Hypermedia Environment for Learning Concepts Based on Inter-domain Analogies as an Educational Strategy.- Web.- Towards a Specification of Distributed and Intelligent Web Based Training Systems.- A Virtual Assistant for Web-Based Training in Engineering Education.- Web-Based ITS for Training System Managers on the Computer Intrusion.- Evaluation.- A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, or As Time Goes By: Where Does the Time Go in a Reading Tutor That Listens?.- An Empirical Assessment of Comprehension Fostering Features in an Intelligent Tutoring System.- Pilot-Testing a Tutorial Dialogue System That Supports Self-Explanation.- When and Why Does Mastery Learning Work: Instructional Experiments with ACT-R “SimStudents”.- Authoring.- Minimally Invasive Tutoring of Complex Physics Problem Solving.- KERMIT: A Constraint-Based Tutor for Database Modeling.- Automatic Problem Generation in Constraint-Based Tutors.- Authoring.- Collaborative Ontological Engineering of Instructional Design Knowledge for an ITS Authoring Environment.- TeLoDe: Towards Creating an Intelligent Computer Algebra System.- An Intelligent Teaching Assistant System for Logic.- Learning.- The Design and Implementation of a Graphical Communication Medium for Interactive Open Learner Modelling.- Exploring Various Guidance Mechanisms to Support Interaction with Inspectable Learner Models.- Supporting Learning by Opening the Student Model.- Reasoning about Systems of Physics Equations.- Simulation.- Principle Hierarchy Based Intelligent Tutoring System for Common Cockpit Helicopter Training.- ASIMIL: Overview of a Distance Learning Flight-Training System.- Cognitive Modelling Approach to Diagnose Over- Simplification in Simulation- Based Training.- Simulation.- SIMPA: A Training Platform in Work Station Including Computing Tutors.- Computer Aided Evaluation of Trainee Skills on a Simulator Network.- Qualitative Assessment on Aeronautical Training with Cognitive Agents.- Dialogue.- Collaborative Discourse Theory as a Foundation for Tutorial Dialogue.- A Hybrid Language Understanding Approach for Robust Selection of Tutoring Goals.- Beyond the Short Answer Question with Research Methods Tutor.- A 3-Tier Planning Architecture for Managing Tutorial Dialogue.- Dialogue.- Teaching Case-Based Argumentation Concepts Using Dialectic Arguments vs. Didactic Explanations.- An Intelligent Tutoring System Incorporating a Model of an Experienced Human Tutor.- An Instructional Assistant Agent for Distributed Collaborative Learning.- Dialogue.- Conflicts in Group Planning: Results from the Experimental Study of MArCo.- An Approach to Automatic Analysis of Learners’ Social Behavior During Computer-Mediated Synchronous Conversations.- Going Beyond the Problem Given: How Human Tutors Use Post-practice Discussions to Support Transfer.- Conception of a Language Learning Environment Based on the Communicative and Actional Approaches.- Deriving Acquisition Principles from Tutoring Principles.- Learning.- Collaborative Discovery Learning of Model Design.- A General Platform for Inquiry Learning.- Assessing Effective Exploration in Open Learning Environments Using Bayesian Networks.- Hierarchical Representation and Evaluation of the Student in an Intelligent Tutoring System.- Learning.- CLARISSE: A Machine Learning Tool to Initialize Student Models.- Incorporating Learning Characteristics into an Intelligent Tutor.- Simultaneous Evaluation of Multiple Topics in SIETTE.- Learning.- Toward Measuring and Maintaining the Zone of Proximal Development in Adaptive Instructional Systems.- Getting to Know Me: Helping Learners Understand Their Own Learning Needs through Metacognitive Scaffolding.- Using Production to Assess Learning: An ILE That Fosters Self-Regulated Learning.- Evaluation.- The Ambre ILE: How to Use Case-Based Reasoning to Teach Methods.- Model-Based Reasoning for Domain Modeling in a Web-Based Intelligent Tutoring System to Help Students Learn to Debug C++ Programs.- Using Computer Algebra Systems as Cognitive Tools.- The Design of a ‘Motivating’ Intelligent Assessment System.- Evaluation.- Human or Computer? AutoTutor in a Bystander Turing Test.- Representational Decisions When Learning Population Dynamics with an Instructional Simulation.- Integration of Automatic Tools for Displaying Interaction Data in Computer Environments for Distance Learning.- Evaluation.- Directing Development Effort with Simulated Students.- An Evaluation of Intelligent Learning Environment for Problem Posing.- Using Edit Distance Algorithms to Compare Alternative Approaches to ITS Authoring.- Are ITSs Created with the REDEEM Authoring Tool More Effective than “Dumb” Couresware?.- Narrative.- StoryML: An XML Extension for Woven Stories.- An Agent That Helps Children to Author Rhetorically-Structured Digital Puppet Presentations.- “You Cannot Use My Broom! I’m the Witch, You’re the Prince”: Collaboration in a Virtual Dramatic Game.- Feedback on Children’s Stories via Multiple Interface Agents.- Motivation and Emotions.- Informing the Detection of the Students’ Motivational State: An Empirical Study.- Modeling Students’ Emotions from Cognitive Appraisal in Educational Games.- An Affective Module for an Intelligent Tutoring System.- Evaluation.- Perceived Characteristics and Pedagogical Efficacy of Animated Conversational Agents.- Learning about the Ethical Treatment of Human Subjects in Experiments on a Web Facility with a Conversational Agent and ITS Components.- Design and Evaluation of a Navigation Agent with a Mixed Locus of Control.- Poster Papers.- Adding Human-Provided Emotional Scaffolding to an Automated Reading Tutor That Listens Increases Student Persistence.- An Approach of Reinforcement Learning Use in Tutoring Systems.- An MPEG-4 Authoring Tool Dedicated to Teachers.- Resource Reuse and Broadband User Modelling in ie-TV.- Integrating Adaptive Emotional Agents in ITS.- Targeted Detection: Application to Error Detection in a Pedagogical System.- The Design of ENCAL, a Learning Environment Utilising Multiple Linked Representations.- Supporting Interaction Analysis for Collaborative Learning.- A Support Environment for Novice Web Searchers.- Towards More Affective Tutoring Systems.- Mobile Lessons Using Geo-referenced Data in e-Learning.- Shared Scientific Argumentation for Lab Work in Physics: An Application of Ethnomethodology in the Conception Process.- Student’s Setup to Access a WEDS.- Learner Evaluation in Web-Based Learning Environments.- A Constructivist Knowledge Base Architecture for Adaptive Intelligent Tutoring Systems.- Qualitative Models of Interactions between Two Populations.- An Adaptive Distance Learning Architecture.- Modelisation and Automation of Reasoning in Geometry. The ARGOS System: A Learning Companion for High-School Pupils.- Adequate Decision Support Systems Must Also Be Good Learning Environments.