Call for Papers for Workshops (Closed)

Full day

• The 2nd Workshop on Question Generation
  Co-chairs: Vasile Rus & James Lester. University of Memphis, USA & North Carolina State University, USA.
  http://www.questiongeneration.org/AIED2009/
  
  
• SWEL'09: Ontologies and Social Semantic Web for Intelligent Educational Systems
  Co-chairs: Niels Pinkwart, Darina Dicheva & Riichiro Mizoguchi. Clausthal University of Technology, Germany; Winston-Salem State University, USA & University of Osaka, Japan.
  http://compsci.wssu.edu/iis/swel/SWEL09/index.html
  
  
  
• Intelligent Educational Games
  Co-chairs: H. Chad Lane, Amy Ogan & Valerie Shute. University of Southern California, USA; Carnegie Mellon University, USA & Florida State University, USA.
  http://projects.ict.usc.edu/aied09-edgames/
  
  

Half day

• Scalability Issues in AIED
  Co-chairs: Lewis Johnson & Kurt VanLehn. Alelo, Inc., USA & Arizona State University, USA.
  http://alelo.com/aied2009/workshop.html
  
  
• Closing the Affective Loop in Intelligent Learning Environments
  Co-chairs: Cristina Conati & Tanja Mitrovic. University of British Columbia, Canada & University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
  http://aspire.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/AffectLoop.html
  
  
• Second Workshop on Culturally-Aware Tutoring Systems (CATS2009):
  Socio-Cultural Issues in Artificial Intelligence in Education
  Co-chairs: Emmanuel G. Blanchard, H. Chad Lane & Danièle Allard. McGill University, Canada; University of Southern California, USA & Dalhousie University, Canada.
  http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~blanchae/CATS2009/
  
  
• Enabling Creative Learning Design: How HCI, User Modelling and Human Factors Help
  Co-chairs: George Magoulas, Diana Laurillard, Kyparisia Papanikolaou & Maria Grigoriadou. Birkbeck College, University of London, UK; Institute of Education, UK; School of Pedagogical and Technological Education, Athens, Greece & University of Athens, Greece.
  https://sites.google.com/a/lkl.ac.uk/learning-design-workshop/Home
  
  
• Towards User Modeling and Adaptive Systems for All (TUMAS-A 2009): Modeling and Evaluation of Accessible Intelligent Learning Systems
  Co-chairs: Jesus G. Boticario, Olga C. Santos and Jorge Couchet, Ramon Fabregat, Silvia Baldiris & German Moreno. Spanish National University for Distance Education, Spain & Universitat de Girona, Spain.
  https://adenu.ia.uned.es/web/es/projects/tumas-a/2009
  
  
• (Cancelled) Enabling Participatory Science: Technology Enhanced Collaboration, Learning & Participation in Science
  Co-chairs: Josh Underwood, Hilary Smith, Kevin Walker & Duncan Rowland. London Knowledge Lab, University of London, UK; University of Sussex, Brighton, UK & University of Nottingham, UK.
  http://participatory-science.blogspot.com
  
  
• Intelligent Support for Exploratory Environments (ISEE’09)
  Co-chairs: Manolis Mavrikis, Sergio Gutierrez-Santos & Paul Mulholland. Institute of Education, University of London, UK; Birkbeck College, University of London, UK & Open University, UK.
  https://sites.google.com/a/lkl.ac.uk/isee/
  
  
• Natural Language Processing in Support of Learning: Metrics, Feedback and Connectivity
  Co-chairs: Philippe Dessus, Stefan Trausan-Matu, Peter van Rosmalen & Fridolin Wild. Grenoble University, France; Politehnica University of Bucharest; Open University of the Netherlands & Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria.
  http://webu2.upmf-grenoble.fr/sciedu/nlpsl/
  
  

Instructions on how to submit to individual workshops

can be found on the individual workshop websites, see above.

 

Call for Workshops (Closed)

AIED2009 workshops are designed to provide an opportunity for in-depth discussion of current and emerging topics of interest to the AIED community. We encourage workshop proposals that bring together people working on new and developing research topics that favor highly interactive discussions. Those proposing a workshop should provide information that the workshop is of interest to the AIED community, and why a workshop on this topic is beneficial. Workshop organizers and participants are also expected to attend the main AIED conference.

Proposal requirements and format (2 - 4 pages total length for proposal):

• Title
• Length of workshop:  full or half-day
• Detailed description of the workshop topic’s importance to AIED community
• Description of the workshop content and themes
• Names, short biographies, and contact information of workshop chair(s)
• List of organizing/program committee members. To ensure a workshop is of interest to the broader AIED community, members should be from multiple universities.
• Proposed format of the workshop (e.g., approximate timeline) and type of activities (e.g., paper presentations, discussions, demos, etc.)
• Please indicate any potential solicitation plans for workshop funding from sources, such as international projects, research networks, or industry. (External funding is not required for acceptance.)

Submission information:

Those interested in organizing a workshop should submit their proposal to the AIED2009 workshop chairs:

• Scotty D. Craig (scraig@memphis.edu)

• Darina Dicheva (dichevad@wssu.edu)

Important dates

• Workshop proposal submission:  January 15, 2009
• Workshop decisions:  February 20, 2009
• Workshop paper submissions:  April 16, 2009 (suggested deadline)
• Workshop camera-ready copy due:   TBA
• Workshops:  July 6 and July 7, 2009

Workshop publications

Approved workshops will have a locally printed proceedings independent from the main conference. They will also have a one-page summary in the main conference proceedings.

Download the Call for Workshops PDF