The accidental tutor: overlaying an intelligent tutor on an existing user interface

Authors:
Stephen B. Gilbert;Stephen B. Blessing;Liz Blankenship
Affiliations:
Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA;University of Tampa, Tampa, FL, USA;University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Venue:
CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2009

Citing 3
Cited 1

An architecture for plug-in tutor agents

Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education
Training wheels in a user interface

Communications of the ACM
Hacking, Mashing, Gluing: Understanding Opportunistic Design

IEEE Pervasive Computing

Initial results of using an intelligent tutoring system with Alice

Proceedings of the 17th ACM annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) have been shown to have dramatic impact on student learning [9]. However, these gains have been mostly in topics in which the interface has been designed with the intelligent tutor in mind. This research investigates the HCI challenges that result from creating two model-tracing ITSs for use with existing interfaces. We describe overlaying a tutor on an image-editing program and a web-based application. We highlight three main HCI challenges: 1) integrating a problem scenario in the context of the existing application, 2) providing learners with appropriate feedback during task performance, and 3) allowing learners to explore the interface while making sure they complete the task.