Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on qualitative reasoning about physical systems
The structure-mapping engine: algorithm and examples
Artificial Intelligence
Compositional modeling: finding the right model for the job
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue: Qualitative reasoning about physical systems II
Building problem solvers
Using qualitative physics to build articulate software for thermodynamics education
AAAI'94 Proceedings of the twelfth national conference on Artificial intelligence (vol. 2)
Scaling up self-explanatory simulators polynomial time compilation
IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Scaling up logic-based truth maintenance systems via fact garbage collection
AAAI'96 Proceedings of the thirteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
RoboTA (poster): an agent colony architecture for supporting education
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
Afterword: from this revolution to the next
Smart machines in education
Component-Based Construction of a Science Learning Space
ITS '98 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Design approaches to model-based simulation in intelligent computer assisted instruction
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Qualitative simulation and related approaches for the analysis of dynamic systems
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Electromagnetism supercharged!: learning physics with digital simulation games
ICLS '04 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Learning sciences
ICLS'08 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on International conference for the learning sciences - Volume 2
ICLS '10 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - Volume 2
Generating tutoring feedback in an intelligent training system on a robotic simulator
IEA/AIE'06 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Advances in Applied Artificial Intelligence: industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems
An approach to intelligent training on a robotic simulator using an innovative path-planner
ITS'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
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Qualitative physics captures the kinds of representations and reasoning techniques that people use in dealing with the physical world. Using qualitative physics, developers can create educational software that is fluent, supportive, generative, and customizable. Research in qualitative physics has many motivations, ranging from improving our understanding of human cognition to making new kinds of software systems for various applications. In particular, creating new kinds of educational software has been a motivation for qualitative physics since its inception. This goal is now beginning to be realized, thanks to advances in qualitative physics and computer technology. Qualitative physics provides a critical enabling technology for science and engineering education and makes possible a new type of affordable, interactive educational software--articulate software. The Qualitative Reasoning Group at Northwestern University's Institute for the Learning Sciences is developing architectures for articulate software. One such architecture is the articulate virtual laboratory, which helps students learn by engaging them in conceptual design tasks. We've used this architecture to create educational software for science and engineering, which we've deployed experimentally in several college courses.