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Carrie Demmans Epp
User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
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C \(^{2}\) Tutor: Hel** People Learn to Avoid Present Bias During Decision Making
Procrastination can harm many aspects of life, including physical, mental, or financial well-being. It is often a consequence of people’s tendency to prefer immediate benefits over long-term rewards (i.e., pre...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Complex Learning Environments: Tensions in Student Perspectives that Indicate Competing Values
Advances in software have enabled an increase in the complexity of online learning environments (OLE)
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Article
Collaborating with Mature English Language Learners to Combine Peer and Automated Feedback: a User-Centered Approach to Designing Writing Support
300,000 immigrants move to Canada each year in search of better economic opportunities, and many have limited English language skills. Improving written literacy of newcomers can enhance education, employment,...
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Open AccessVisualising alignment to support students’ judgment of confidence in open learner models
Knowledge monitoring is a component of metacognition which can help students regulate their own learning. In adaptive learning software, the system’s model of the student can be presented as an open learner mo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Mature ELLs’ Perceptions Towards Automated and Peer Writing Feedback
Mature English Language Learners (ELLs) learning to write in informal environments have little access to instructor feedback and must rely on other sources to support their writing development. While it is kn...
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Chapter
Why and How Think-Alouds with Older Adults Fail: Recommendations from a Study and Expert Interviews
We compared three common usability testing methods—Concurrent Think-Aloud, Retrospective Think-Aloud and Co-discovery—with frail older adults. We found that Co-discovery is the most effective method for this g...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Student Preferences for Visualising Uncertainty in Open Learner Models
User preferences for indicating uncertainty using specific visual variables have been explored outside of educational reporting. Exploring students’ preferred method to indicate uncertainty in open learner mod...
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Evaluating the Effect of Uncertainty Visualisation in Open Learner Models on Students’ Metacognitive Skills
Self-assessment is widely used in open learner models (OLMs) as a metacognitive process to enhance students’ self-regulated learning. Yet little research has investigated the impact of the visualisation when t...
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Article
Information practices and user interfaces: Student use of an iOS application in special education
A framework connecting concepts from user interface design with those from information studies is applied in a study that integrated a location-aware mobile application into two special education classes at di...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Interactive Event: Enabling Vocabulary Acquisition while Providing Mobile Communication Support
We have developed an adaptive communication support tool that also supports vocabulary acquisition. This tool is called VocabNomad; it is one of the few mobile assisted language learning tools that aims to sup...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Mobile Adaptive Communication Support for Vocabulary Acquisition
Language learners are often isolated because of their inability to communicate. Adaptive mobile communication support tools could be used to scaffold both their interaction with others and their vocabulary acq...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
ProTutor: Historic Open Learner Models for Pronunciation Tutoring
Acquiring proper pronunciation is difficult for second language learners. We built a Russian pronunciation tutor, called ProTutor, that uses open learner models (OLMs). Of particular interest is ProTutor’s “hi...
