ISAT News

iSAT held a data collection training last week, which resulted in the data collectors developing additional research skills – specifically how to take field notes. Now that they no longer need to set up and troubleshoot equipment (the student recorder has been improved so that students and teachers can now...

Dr. Sidney D’Mello, a Professor in the Institute of Cognitive Science and Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, is representing the discipline of Affective Computing with his talk titled “Affect Detection from Wearables in the 'Real' Wild: Fact, Fantasy, or Somewhere In-between?” in the first webinar...

iSAT welcomed 5 students as part of a partnership with World Denver and TechGirls for a day of job shadowing and learning all about what we do at iSAT. The girls learned about our AI Partner “CoBi” and how it was developed. TechGirls is an international summer exchange program designed...

iSAT participated in a wonderful community event at Casa de la Esperanza in Longmont last week. Team members shared about our mission, the Sensor Immersion curriculum, and CoBi - our AI Partner. Casa de La Esperanza is a housing community and learning center dedicated to helping agriculture workers and their...

Hosted by CU Boulder, the Silicon Flatirons Variety Showcase highlights creative startup ventures from the community and the campus. At last week’s Variety Showcase, our PI Sidney D’Mello presented on iSAT and the great work the team is doing!

iSAT’s Co-Principal Investigator (and Strand 1 leader) Martha Palmer was just awarded the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award by the prestigious Association of Computational Linguistics! This well-deserved award highlights her decades of innovation and hard work. Congratulations, Martha!

Stanford Digital Education has a fantastic feature recapping the Natural Language Processing conference held at Stanford in May. The goal of the conference was to explore the use of AI for student-centered instruction and brought together education researchers, ed tech entrepreneurs, and funders to increase collaboration in the field. Much...

iSAT’s Principal Investigator, Sidney D’Mello, and Co-Principal Investigator, Leanne Hirshfield, met with a group from The Toyota Research Institute, North America (TRI-NA) in Ann Arbor to discuss trust regarding human autonomous systems. The Toyota Research Institute was founded in 2008 and is working to discover next generation core technology to...

A student researcher with our Institute-wide team, Maggie Perkoff attended UMAP 2023 in Limassol, Cyprus, the 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. iSAT is excited to have representation at this premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups...

Monica Ko, Research Scientist with Strand 3, presented at ISLS 2023 (International Society of the Learning Sciences) in Montreal, Canada. Her talk, “Curriculum as Seed: Designing and Supporting the Use of Open Education Resources to Promote Teacher Agency and Innovation,” focused on sharing important iSAT-based research.