
PACT Center People

Directors
Albert Corbett	Associate Research Professor HCII Office: NSH 3605 Phone: 412.268.8808 email, home page	Research interests: Development and evaluation of computer-based learning environments

Kenneth Koedinger	Professor HCII Office: NSH 3601 Phone: 412.268.7667 email, home page	Research interests: Cognitive modeling, problem solving and learning, intelligent tutoring systems, educational technology, enhancing system learnability

Faculty & Post Docs
Vincent Aleven	Systems Scientist HCII Office: NSH 3613 Phone: 412.268.5475 email, home page	Research interests: Artificial intelligence, intelligent educational systems, cognitive modeling, learning and metacognitive skills, case-based reasoning.

John Anderson	Professor Psychology & Computer Science Office: BH 345D Phone: 412.268.2788 email, home page

Marsha Lovett	Assistant Professor Psychology Office: Cyh 125 Phone: 412.268.3499 email, home page

Bruce McLaren	Systems Scientist HCII Office: NSH 2620A Phone: 412.268.6581 email, home page	Research interests: intelligent tutoring, collaborative learning, metacognitive learning, case-based reasoning, analogy

Graduate Students
Lisa Anthony	PhD Student HCII Office: NSH 3526B Phone: 412.268.6899 email, home page	Research interests: multimodal interfaces, speech recognition, handwriting recognition, intelligent tutoring systems, multimodal interfaces for mathematics tutoring, machine learning, artificial intelligence, learning and metacognitive skills

Aaron Bauer	PhD Student HCII Office: NSH 3526 Phone: 412.268.3945 email

Ryan Baker	PhD Student HCII Office: NSH 3525 Phone: 412.268.8724 email, home page	Research interests: Students gaming the system, dynamic scaffolding, motivational scaffolding, machine learning, quantitative field observation

Hao Cen	PhD Student HCII Office: NSH 2502 Phone: 412.268.1208 email

Norma Chang	PhD Student Psychology Office: BH 455A Phone: 412.268.8112 email

Matt Easterday	PhD Student HCII Office: NSH 2504 Phone: 412.268.9288 email, home page

Amy Ogan	PhD student HCII Office: NSH 2502 Phone: 412.268.1208 email, home page

Octav Popescu	PhD Student LTI Office: NSH 2612 Phone: 412.268.5476 email

Ido Roll	PhD student HCII Office: NSH 3526 Phone: 412.268.3945 email, home page	Research interests: Metacognition in ITS, Learning and performance goals, help seeking behavior

Erin Walker	PhD student HCII Office: NSH 2502 Phone: 412.268.1208 email

Staff
Melissa Butler	Research Associate II HCII Office: NSH A501 Phone: 412.268.3404 email	Research interests: Minimalism in design

Chang-Hsin Chang	Research Programmer HCII Office: NSH 2617 Phone: 412.268.2984 email

Sandy Demi	Research Associate II HCII Office: NSH 2504A Phone: 412.268.2196 email

John laPlante	Research Programmer HCII Office: NSH 2620 Phone: 412.268.4427 email

Sharon Lesgold	Research Associate HCII Office: NSH 2620A Phone: 412.268.6581 email

Peter Lieu	Sr. Research Programmer HCII Office: NSH 2617 Phone: 412.268.5576 email

Ben MacLaren	Sr. Research Programmer HCII Office: NSH 2620 Phone: 412.268.6720 email

Mike Schneider	Principal Research Programmer HCII Office: NSH 2619 Phone: 412.268.5595 email, home page	Research interests: Java programming and interface evaluation and design

Jonathan Sewall	Project Director HCII Office: NSH 2620C Phone: 412.268.7185 email

Alida Skogsholm	Sr. Research Programmer HCII Office: NSH 2504A Phone: 412.268.2196 email

Angela Wagner	Research Associate HCII Office: NSH 2620B Phone: 412.268.5473 email

Zhenhua Zhang	Research Programmer HCII Office: NSH 2620C Phone: 412.268.5474 email

Undergraduate Assistants
Jane Kamneva	Undergrad Rsch Asst Business Administration Office: NSH 2620 Phone: 412.268.8361 email

Kim K.C. (Kuok Chiang Kim)	Undergrad Rsch Asst ECE, MISM Office: NSH 2620 Phone: 412.268.8361 email

EJ (Eun Jeong) Ryu	Undergrad Rsch Asst Computer Science and Psychology Office: NSH 2620 Phone: 412.268.8361 email

Former students
Neil Heffernan	email, home page

Santosh Mathan	home page

Lara Triona	home page