Our community of faculty scholars engage in interdisciplinary research that focuses on real world problems and lays the groundwork for the innovations of tomorrow that can improve the lives and the livelihood of people around the world. Their research generates the knowledge and understanding needed for a better society, and it strengthens our teaching mission by enriching our students' learning experience in and out of the classroom. We encourage you to further explore our featured undergraduate research work.
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Olsen, Jennifer
Journal Articles
- With Aditi Kothiyal, "Identifying Productive Reflection in Ill-Structured Problem Solving," 2022.
- With Jiang, Shiyan, "Integrating student identity support in orchestration systems.," 2022.
- With Arzu Guneysu Ozgur, Kshitij Sharma, and Wafa Johal, "Leveraging eye tracking to understand children’s attention during game-based, tangible robotics activities," vol. 31, 2022.
- With Kshitij Sharma and Shiyan Jiang, "What brings students together?: Investigating the causal relationship between joint mental effort and joint visual attention.," 2022.
- With Nikol Rummel, Vincent Aleven, Kshitij Sharma, Vincent Aleven, Nikol Rummel, Kshitij Sharma, Himanshu Verma, Daniela Caballero, and Patrick Jermann, "Designing for the co-orchestration of social transitions between individual, small-group and whole-class learning in the classroom," vol. 31, pp. 24-56, 2021.
- With Arzu Guneysu Ozgur, Maximilian J Wess, Wafa Johal, Ayberk Ozgur, and Friedhelm C Hummel, "Gamified motor training with tangible robots in older adults: a feasibility study and comparison with the young," 2020.
- With Louis Faucon, Stian Haklev, and Pierre Dillenbourg, "Real-Time Prediction of Students' Activity Progress and Completion Rates.," vol. 7, p. 2, 2020.
- With Oertel, C., "Supporting Empathy Training Through Virtual Patients," 2020.
- With Kshitij Sharm, Nikol Rummel, and Vincent Aleven, "Temporal analysis of multimodal data to predict collaborative learning outcomes," vol. 51, 5, pp. 1527-1547, 2020.
- With Kevin Gonyop Kim, Catharine Oertel, Martin Dobricki, Alessia E Coppi, and Alberto Cattaneo, "Using immersive virtual reality to support designing skills in vocational education," vol. 51, 6, 2020.
- With Sina Shahmoradi, Aditi Kothiya, Barbara Bruno, and Pierre Dillenbourg, "What teachers need for orchestrating robotic classrooms," pp. 87-101, 2020.
- With Arzu Guneysu Ozgur, Maximilian J Wessel, Andéol Geoffroy Cadic-Melchior, Valérie Zufferey, and Wafa Johal, "The effect of gamified robot-enhanced training on motor performance in chronic stroke survivors," 2018.
Chapters of Books or Articles within Books
- With Ken Holstein, "Human-AI co-orchestration: the role of artificial intelligence in orchestration" in Handbook of artificial intelligence in education. 2023, pp. 309-321.
- With Vincent Aleven, Manolis Mavrikis, Bruce M McLaren, Huy A Nguyen, and Nikol Rummel, "Six instructional approaches supported in AIED systems" in Handbook of artificial intelligence in education. 2023, pp. 184-228.
- With Wafa Johal, Barbara Bruno, Jennifer K Olsen, Mohamed Chetouani, and Séverin Lemaignan, "Robots for learning-Learner-centred design" in Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2021, pp. 715-716.
- With Louis Faucon, Jennifer K Olsen, and Pierre Dillenbourg, "A bayesian model of individual differences and flexibility in inductive reasoning for categorization of examples" in Proceedings of the tenth international conference on learning analytics & knowledge. 2020, pp. 285-294.
- With Kshitij Sharma, Zacharoula Papamitsiou, and Michail Giannakos, "Predicting learners' effortful behaviour in adaptive assessment using multimodal data" in Proceedings of the tenth international conference on learning analytics & knowledge. 2020, pp. 480-489.
Conference Papers and Other Media
- With Eduardo Benitez Sandoval, Diego Vazquez Rojas, Clarissa Parada, Alvaro Anzueto Rios, and Wafa Johal, "Virtual Characters versus Social Robots: A Future Comparative Study of Social Agents for English Language Teaching." 2021.

