Recent Publications & Awards:

The Impact of Animated Pedagogical Agents on Girls’ and Boys’ Emotions, Attitudes, Behaviors and Learning

Ivon Arroyo, Beverly P. Woolf, David Cooper, Winslow Burleson, Kasia Muldner International Conference of Advanced Learning Technologies ICALT 2011 Athens, Georgia, July 2011

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Using the Think Aloud Method to Observe Students’ Help-seeking Behavior in Math Tutoring Software

Minghui Tai, Beverly P. Woolf, Ivon Arroyo International Conference of Advanced Learning Technologies ICALT 2011 Athens, Georgia, July 2011 In Press

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Hoodies and Barrels : Using a Hide-and-seek Ubiquitous Game to Teach Mathematics.

Imran A. Zualkernan, Ivon Arroyo, Beverly P. Woolf International Conference of Advanced Learning Technologies ICALT 2011 Athens, Georgia, July 2011 In Press

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A Data Mining Approach to Intelligent Tutoring

Ivon Arroyo, Hasmik Mehranian, Beverly P. Woolf Journal of Educational Data Mining JEDM In Press

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Ranking Feature Sets for Emotion Models used in Classroom Based Intelligent Tutoring Systems, submitted to the International Conference on User Modeling and Adaptive Presentation

David G. Cooper, Kasia Muldner, Ivon Arroyo, Beverly Park Woolf, Winslow Burleson - Submitted to the International Conference on User Modeling and Adaptive Presentation, 2010, Hawaii.

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Gender Matters: The Impact of Animated Agents on Students’ Affect, Behavior and Learning

Ivon Arroyo, Beverly P. Woolf, James Michael Royer, Minghui Tai, Kasia Muldner, Winslow Burleson, David Cooper - Technical report UM-CS-2010-020. Computer Science Department, UMASS Amherst

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Evaluation of AnimalWatch: An intelligent tutoring system for arithmetic and fractions

Beal, C. R., Arroyo, I., Cohen, P. R., & Woolf, B. P. 2010 Journal of Interactive Online Learning

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The Effect of Motivational Learning Companions on Low-Achieving Students and Students with Learning Disabilities

Woolf, B.P., Arroyo, I., Muldner, K., Burleson, W., Cooper, D., Dolan, R., Christopherson, R.M. International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 2010, Pittsburgh

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Bayesian Networks and Linear Regression Models of Students’ Goals, Moods & Emotions

Ivon Arroyo, David G. Cooper, Winslow Burleson, Beverly P. Woolf - The Third International Conference on Educational Data Mining EDM2010 Pittsburgh, PA, USA, June 11-13, 2010.

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Improving Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Using Expectation Maximization To Learn Student Skill Levels

Kimberly Ferguson, Ivon Arroyo, Sridhar Mahadevan, Beverly Woolf, Andy Barto

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Sensing Student Emotion and Responding Appropriatly

Cooper, David, Arroyo,Ivon, Woolf, Beverly Best Interactive Presentation AIED 2009

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Emotion Sensors Go To School

Ivon Arroyo, David G. Cooper, Winslow Burleson, Beverly Park Woolf, Kasia Muldner and Robert Christopherson Best Paper AIED 2009

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Affective Gendered Learning Companion

Arroyo, I., Woolf, B.P., Royer, J.M., Tai, M. 2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education, Brighton, England, IOS Press

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Viewing Student Affect and Learning through Classroom Observation and Physical Sensors

Toby Dragon, Ivon Arroyo, Beverly P. Woolf, Winslow Burleson, Rana el Kaliouby, Hoda Eydgahi 2008

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Affect-Aware Tutors: Recognizing and Responding to Student Affect

Beverly Woolf, Winslow Burleson, Ivon Arroyo, Toby Dragon, David Cooper, Rosalind Picard

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Repairing Disengagement With Non-Invasive Interventions

Ivon Arroyo, Kimberly Ferguson, Jeff Johns, Toby Dragon, Hasmik Meheranian, Don Fisher, Andrew Barto, Sridhar Mahadevan, Beverly P. Woolf

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