ISAT News

Members of Strand 3’s Co-design team visited Denver Green School this week to share information and answer questions about the new Games Unit “How can we make video games that reflect the world we want to live in?” Designed to focus on teaching AI through investigating causes of racism in...

After working at iSAT as an undergraduate researcher for Strand 2, Elsy graduated from University of Colorado Boulder in May and has been promoted to the User Experience and User Interface Developer. She will be supporting all strands in helping to research and design the user experience for iSAT's AI...

A huge congratulations to iSAT team members who contributed to the presentation “Speech-Based AI Display for Small Group Collaboration in Classrooms”. It was presented over the weekend at the Artifical Intelligence in Education Conference 2022 and won the award for "Best Interactive Event"! See the full video here

The NSF Institute for Student-AI Teaming (iSAT) is happy to announce that members of the Institute will present eight papers, posters, interactive demonstrations, and workshops at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) and the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), both held in Durham, UK, July...

Jason studies how teams distribute cognitive work to achieve common goals. His dissertation at the University of California Irvine investigated team communication in high stress moments of competitive video game play to understand how teams build trust, manage awareness, make decisions, and develop those capacities under pressure – in both...

The iSAT Community Hub is pleased to announce another Call for Proposals (CFP) for the iSAT Trainee Grant Program. The purposes of the iSAT Trainee Grant Program are to enable iSAT trainees—undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postdoctoral scholars—to initiate and pursue their own research projects; help trainees gain...

As an undergraduate student, Elsy Meis does not fit the typical profile of a first author on an academic paper admitted to an international conference. However, Elsy has proven herself as a lead researcher who is involved with many efforts throughout iSAT. This week she presented “HCI Strategies for Informing...

Strand 1 iSAT team members James Pustejovsky and Nikhil Krishnaswamy had their paper, "Multimodal Semantics for Affordances and Actions”, chosen to receive the Best Paper Award of the HCI 2022 Thematic Area. This Thematic Area addresses challenging and innovative topics in Human-Computer Interaction theory, methodology and practice. The selection process...

At the iSAT whole team meeting this week, iSAT team members Rachel Dickler and Michael Chang led the group through an informative session on conjecture maps including how they can best be used to guide research within iSAT. For example, how can we go from high-level statements of research goals...

Teachers from Denver Public Schools attended iSAT's professional learning event where they learned how to teach students about AI and social justice in a collaborative environment as well as how to adapt iSAT's AI in Games curriculum to tailor it to the needs of their students and schools.