News & Notes

• I am a program co-chair for FLAIRS-21 to be held in Coconut Grove, FL, May 15-17, 2008. Our invited keynote speakers will be Bruce Buchanan, Alfred Kobsa, and Candy Sidner. There will also be a special track on intelligent tutoring systems (submission deadline is Mon Nov 19).
• AIED 2007 has come and gone. I had a paper on the development of intercultural competence in the Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning workshop.
• I hosted a workshop at ICT on August 24 & 25, 2006 discussing the techniques and prospects of using intelligent tutoring systems to enhance learning in serious games.
• ICT hosts an ongoing lecture series.

Research Interests:

• intelligent tutoring systems
• serious games
• learning sciences
• intercultural competence
• cognitive modeling
  

Education

Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, 2004.  advisor: Kurt VanLehn.
M.S.  Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997.
B.S.  Mathematics & Computer Science, Truman State University, 1995. 

Research Summary:

My research involves the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to education and training. Because many modern games and simulations built for learning tend to overlook pedagogical support, our research group at ICT is exploring ways to apply intelligent tutoring system (ITS) techniques to fill this void. Because we are focusing on real-time tasks (e.g., negotiating with a virtual human), two guiding principles of our research are to (1) avoid distracting the learner and disrupting fidelity, and (2) encourage reflection and self-evaluation to achieve deep conceptual understanding, well known as a critical component of human learning. We are not only looking at explicit teaching actions, such as giving a hint, but also stealth tutoring that involves experience and simulation manipulation to achieve pedagogical objectives.

We are building two distinct but coordinated AI systems. The first is a coach that observes learner performance and provides guidance during an exercise. The coach can produce explicit feedback on actions already taken or forward-looking hints on what to do next or what to avoid. The second component is a reflective tutor that looks at a learner's exercise as a whole, builds a tutorial lesson plan to address critical learning issues, and executes an interactive dialogue session that supports reviewing the exercise, understanding the reasons for successes and failures, and identifying alternative paths that may have led to a better solution.

Refereed Publications

Lane, H.C., Core, M.G., Gomboc, D., Karnavat, A., & Rosenberg, M. (2007). Intelligent Tutoring for Interpersonal and Intercultural Skills. To appear in the Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC 2007), Orlando, FL. [pdf]

Core, M.G., Traum, D., Lane, H.C., Swartout, W., Marsella, S., Gratch, J., & van Lent, M. (2006).  Teaching Negotiation Skills through Practice and Reflection with Virtual Humans.  In C.M. Overstreet & A. Martens (Eds.), SIMULATION:  Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, Special Issue on Modeling and Simulation in Teaching and Training, 82(11), 685-701. [pdf]

Hill, R.W., Belanich, J., Lane, H.C., Core, M.G., Dixon, M., Forbell, E., Kim, J., & Hart, J. (2006). Pedagogically Structured Game-based Training:  Development of the ELECT BiLAT Simulation, in the Proceedings of the 25th Army Science Conference (ASC 2006), Orlando, FL. [pdf]

Lane, H. C., Core, M.G., Gomboc, D., Solomon, S., van Lent, M., & Rosenberg, M. (2006).  Reflective Tutoring for Immersive Simulation, in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2006), Jhongli, Taiwan. [pdf]

Core, M.G., Lane, H.C., van Lent, M., Gomboc, D., Solomon, S., & Rosenberg, M. (2006).  Building Explainable Artificial Intelligence Systems, in Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-06), AAAI Press, Boston, MA. [pdf]

Lane, H.C. & VanLehn, K. (2005).  Teaching the tacit knowledge of programming to novices with natural language tutoring.  In S. Fitzgerald and M. Guzdial (Eds.) Computer Science Education, Special issue on doctoral research in CS Education, Swets & Zeitlinger, 15(3), 183-201. [pdf]

Lane, H.C., Core, M.G., van Lent, M., Solomon, S., & Gomboc, D. (2005).  Explainable artificial intelligence for training and tutoring.  In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AIED 2005), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [pdf]

Gomboc, D., Solomon, S., Core, M.G., Lane, H.C., & van Lent, M. (2005).  Design recommendations to support automated explanation and tutoring.  In Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS 2005), Universal City, CA. [pdf]

Lane, H.C. & VanLehn, K. (2005). Intention-based scoring:  An approach to measuring success at solving the composition problem, in Proceedings of the 36th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2005), ACM Press, 373-377, St. Louis, MO.  [acm portal]

Lane, H.C. & VanLehn, K. (2004).  A Dialogue-based tutoring system for beginning programming, In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2004), AAAI Press, 449-454, Miami Beach, FL. [pdf]

Lane, H.C. & VanLehn, K. (2003). Coached Program Planning:  Dialogue-based support for novice program design, In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '03), ACM Press, 148-152, Reno, NV.  [acm portal]

Workshop and Other Publications

Lane, H.C. (2007). Metacognition and the Development of Intercultural Competence.  In Proceedings of the Workshop on Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning in Intelligent Tutoring Systems at the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), p. 23-32.  Marina del Rey, CA. [pdf]

Lane, H.C. (2006).  Intelligent Tutoring Systems:  Prospects for Guided Practice and Efficient Learning. Whitepaper for the Army's Science of Learning Workshop, Hampton, VA.  Aug 1-3, 2006. [pdf]

Riedl, M.O., Lane, H.C., Hill, R., & Swartout, W. (2005).  Automated story direction and intelligent tutoring:  Towards a unifying architecture.  Papers of the Narrative Learning Envirnonments Workshop at the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AIED05), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [pdf]

Core, M.G., Lane, H.C., van Lent, M., Solomon, S., Gomboc, D., & Carpenter, P. (2005).  Toward question answering for simulations.  In Papers of the Knowledge and Reasoning for Answering Questions (KRAQ05) workshop at IJCAI 05, Edinburgh, Scotland. [pdf]

Dissertation

Lane, H.C. (2004).  Natural Language Tutoring and the Novice Programmer, dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Computer Science, advisor:  Kurt VanLehn.  [available as Pitt ETD]

Other random things

• My teaching portfolio from grad school.
• The Crux of Toast by Arthur Asa Berger.
  

last updated 11/9/07