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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

 


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Santosh Mathan

 


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Lara Triona

 


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