Publications and Reports

Intelligent Learning Environments

2001

T. Katzlberger, G. Biswas, J. Bransford, and D. Schwartz, and TAG-V.
Extending Intelligent Learning Environments with Teachable Agents to Enhance Learning,
Tenth International Conference on AI in Education: AI-ED in the Wired and Wireless Future, J. D. Moore, C. L. Redfield, and W. L. Johnson, eds. IOS Press, Amstredam, pp. 389-397, San Antonio, Texas, May 2001.

Gautam Biswas, Dan Schwartz, John Bransford, and the Teachable Agents Group at Vanderbilt (TAG-V).
Technology Support for Complex Problem Solving: From SAD Environments to AI,
Smart Machines in Education: The Coming Revolution in Education Technology,in K.D. Forbus and P.J. Feltovich (eds.), AAAI/MIT Press, Menlo Park, CA, 2001.

Krittaya Leelawong, Yingbin Wang, Gautam Biswas, Nancy Vye, John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz.
Qualitative Reasoning techniques to support Learning by Teaching: The Teachable Agents Project,
Fifteenth International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, pp. 73-80, San Antonio, Texas, May 2001

2000

Gautam Biswas, Dan Schwartz, Bharat Bhuva, John Bransford, Sean Brophy, Tamara Balac, and Thomas Katzlberger.
Computer Tools that Link Assessment and Instruction: Investigating What Makes Electricity Hard to Learn, in S. Lajoie (eds,),
Computers as cognitive tools Volume II No more walls: Theory change, paradigm shifts and their influence on the use of computers for instructional purposes, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc. NJ, pp. 273-307, 2000.

1999

Susan R. Goldman, Linda K. Zech, Gauatm Biswas, Tom Noser, and The Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt(CTGV).
Computer Technology and Complex Problem Solving: Issues in the study of complex cognitive activity
Intstructional Science, special Issue on "User-System Interactions"
Rouet, Dillenbourg, Steffens, and van Oostendorp, eds., vol. 27, pp. 235-268, 1999.

Sean Brophy, Gautam Biswas, Thomas Katzlberger, John Bransford, and Daniel Schwartz.
Teachable agents: Combining Insights from Learning Theory and Computer Science,
Intl. Conference on AI in Education, Le Mans, France, July, 1999.

1997

Thaddeus R. Crews, Gautam Biswas, Susan R. Goldman and John D. Bransford.
Anchored Interactive Learning Environment Journal of Articial Intelligence in Education, 8:142-178, 1997.

Daniel Schwartz, Gautam Biswas, Sean Brophy, Bharat Bhuva, Tamara Balac, & John Bransford.
Combining Mathematical and Everyday Models of Electricity
Cognitive Science Conference, 1997.

1996

Thaddeus R. Crews, Gautam Biswas, Susan R. Goldman and John D. Bransford.
Macrocontexts Plus Microworlds: An Achored Instruction Approach to Intelligent Learning Environments
Journal of Articial Intelligence in Education, 8:142-178, 1997.

1995

Anne Marie Tharpe, Judith A. Rassi, and Gautam Biswas.
Problem-based learning: An innovative approach to audiology education.
American Journal of Audiology, 4:19-25, 1995.

Susan Goldman, Linda Zech, Tom Noser, and Gautam Biswas.
Computer technology and complex problem solving: Issues in the study of complex cognitive activity.
In 1995 EARLI Symposium, August 1995.

Stephen Owens, Gautam Biswas, Mitchell Nathan, Linda Zech, John Bransford, and Susan Goldman.
SmartTools: A multi-representational approach to teaching functional relations.
In International Conference on AI in Education, page 589, Washington, D.C., August 1995.

Thaddeus Crews, Gautam Biswas, Mitchell Nathan, Sashank Varma, Susan Goldman, and John Bransford.
AdventurePlayer: Macrocontext plus microworlds.
In International Conference on AI in Education, pages 381-388, Washington, D.C., August 1995.

Gautam Biswas, Susan R. Goldman, Doug Fisher, Bharat Bhura, and Grant Glewwe.
Assessing Design Activity in Complex CMOS Circuit Design.
Cognitively Diagnostic Assessment, P. Nicholls, S. Chipman, and R. Brennans, eds., Lawerance Erlbaum, Hillsdalle, NJ, 1995.

1994

Gautam Biswas, Susan R. Goldman, Doug Fisher, Bharat Bhura, and Grant Glewwe.
Assessing Design Activity in Complex CMOS Circuit Design.
Cognitively Diagnostic Assessment P. Nicholls, S. Chipman, and R. Brennans, eds., Lawerance Erlbaum, Hillsdalle, NJ, 1994.

Anne Marie Tharpe and Gautam Biswas.
Characterization of the problem solving in audiology: Implications for training.
American Journal of Audiology, December 1994.

Anne Marie Tharpe, Judith A. Rassi, and Gautam Biswas.
Problem-based learning: An innovative approach to audiology education.
American Journal of Audiology, 1994.

1993

A.M. Tharpe, Gautam Biswas, and J. Hall.
AUDEX: An expert system for pediatric auditory brainstem interpretation. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 4:163-171, 1993.

Thaddeus Crews and Gautam Biswas.
A tutor for trip planning: Combining planning and mathamatics problem solving. In World Congress on AI in Education, pages 346-353, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 1993.

Thaddeus Crews and Gautam Biswas.
Toward an optimal planner for tutoring systems.
In Pro. 5th Midwest AI and Cognitive Science Conference, pages 46-52, Chesterton, IN, April 18-19 1993.