Ryan Baker
Location: (Worcester, MA)
Personal Research Web Page: http://www.wpi.edu/~rsbaker
Keywords: Educational Data Mining, Learner-Computer Interaction, Gaming the System, Student Modeling (Strategic Behavior, Meta-Cognition, Affect, Cognition, Knowledge), Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Serious Games/Educational Games, Off-Task Behavior
Posted on: Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
Broad Research Area: AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision, Computer Science Education / Educational Technology, Databases / Information Retrieval / Data Mining, HCI / CSCW, Scientific/Medical Informatics
Research Interests:
My research is at the intersection of Educational Data Mining and Human-Computer Interaction. I develop and use methods for mining the data that comes out of the interactions between students and educational software, in order to better understand how students respond to educational software, and how these responses impact their learning. I study these issues within intelligent tutors, science microworlds, and educational games.
In recent years, my colleagues and I have developed automated detectors that make inferences in real-time about students’ motivational and meta-cognitive behavior, using data from students’ actions within educational software (no sensor, video, or audio data). We have in particular studied “gaming the system”, off-task behavior, guessing, and slipping. We use these models to make basic discoveries about human learning and learners, and their cognition, meta-cognition, motivation, and affect. My colleagues and I have also developed detectors of
complex aspects of student learning, such as the development of
meta-cognitive strategies and detecting the moment of learning.
I would be interested in working with CI fellows interested in research in these areas.
Contact Information:
Please email me at rsbaker@wpi.edu
