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CREATE CENTER
LD and Ruth G. Morgridge Endowed Chair

Create:

Cross-disciplinary Research
on Equitable Advanced Technology
for Education

Student Research

First International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography (ICQE'19)

Madison, Wisconsin, USA, October 20-22, 2019
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Mitchell Munns and Annabelle LaFond at ICQE 2019.

The CREATE team presented the work on The Dynamic Interaction Between Engagement, Friendship, and Collaboration in Robot-Children Triads. The team used the analytical approach and tools of Epistemic Network Analysis (ENA).

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED'19)

Chicago, Illinois, USA, June 25-29, 2019
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Alex the Assistant Academic Advisor (Furhat robot)

The CREATE team with Christian Bailey as lead developer and programmer, designed Alex to enable it to involve students in natural language conversations when they were seeking advice. Alex was able to give advice on which courses are best to advance a student's education and to obtain the degree of their choice.