Tools for Tutorial Conversation:  Improving Science         Education through Heuristic Simulation Tutors
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The focus of this project is building a mechanism for managing                  intelligent tutoring discourse and on automating the process of                 transferring such knowledge from teachers to the tutoring system.  The          first research area focuses on problems of dialogue management for              science education and implements a discourse framework-a virtual                machine-that enables tutoring feedback in the form of examples,                 analogies, and simulations within interactive simulations.  The                 virtual machine is being implemented within simulations that allow a            student to test his/her hypothesis about domains such as physics and            astronomy, specifically statics dynamics, and celestial mechanics.              The second component of this work is automation-the process of                  transferring knowledge from experts, such as teachers, psychologists,           and curriculum developers, to the intelligent tutors.   The project             seeks to build programming-free tools for representing tutoring                 strategies, domain knowledge, and intervention tactics.  These tools            are designed to assist teachers in visualizing their science knowledge          in a form amenable to Artificial Intelligence systems and in encoding           this knowledge in the form of examples, analogies, or remediation               techniques.
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