ISAT News

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.

The iSAT team recently had an interactive demo of the new AI researcher display accepted to the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. The speech-based researcher display presents data on student groups as they engage in collaborative problem solving in near real-time. Some of the metrics displayed include the...

Monica’s research aims to make science learning more meaningful to secondary science students. She does this through two primary activities: the design and facilitation of professional learning opportunities for teachers and design-based research activities and co-design work with teachers. Within these contexts, she looks at how classrooms develop the norms...

Sidney D'Mello, iSAT’s Principal Investigator, presented "From Autonomy to Synergy: Toward AI that Works “with” rather than “for” Humans" at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Sciences (APS) in Chicago. In his talk, he argued for a vision for AI, going beyond a cold, autonomous agent working for...

After a busy year of research, classroom data collection and analysis, trainings, curruculum design, and so much more, iSAT met with Program Officers and evaluators with the National Science Foundation from May 24 - 25 for our annual review. We're excited to meet with the evaluators again in June for...