Research interests
- Educational Data Mining (check out the community web site here)
- Artificial Intelligence in Education
- Intelligent Tutoring Systems
- Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
- User/Learner modelling and personalisation
- Human Computer Interaction
- Computer Science Education
Current projects
- ARC funded Process mining for collaborative writing (with Rafael
Calvo and Vilaythong Southavilay)
- Smart Services CRC
Personalisation project: Work on reciprocal recommender
systems (with Judy Kay, Luiz Pizzato, Irena Koprinska, Tomek Rej,
Thomas Chung, Joshua Akehurst)
- Collaboration at Tabletop/Surface computing (with Roberto
Martinez)
Past projects
Funding since 2001
- ARC Discovery Project grant
2009-2011: "Comprehensive support for collaborative writing:
Visualising argument, text and process structures”. Reimann, Calvo,
Yacef (270K).
- ARC Discovery Project grant:
2005-2007. “Analyzing and supporting collaboration management
in online learning communities”. Reimann, Goodyear, Kay, Yacef
($200,000).
- USYD Bridging Support grant 2007: "Mining user models of learner
activity in the Reflect system", Yacef, Kay, Koprinska, $15,000).
- USYD Bridging Support grant 2006:
"Data mining of learner models”. Yacef, Kay, Koprinska, Brusilovsky and
Zaiane ($36,300)
- SIT CRC project grant 2005-2007: “Bridging the Gap: Smart Support
for the Intergenerational Distributed Family”. Kummerfeld, Kay, Yacef,
Koprinska, Poon. ($270,000).
- School of IT 2004-2005:
“Extracting patterns from student data in web-based intelligent
tutoring systems”, Yacef ($15,000).
- School of IT 2004-2005:
“Evaluating the educational usability of data mining and visualization
of students' results in web-based learning systems”, Yacef, Reimann
($10,000).
- SESQUI R&D grant: 2004. “User controlled personalisation in a
system for tutoring logic”, Kay, Yacef, Kummerfeld ($20,000).
- SITCRC project grant: 2002-2003.
“Workflow based just-in-time workplace Training”, Kay, Davis, Yacef
($190,000).
- Sesqui Early Career grant:
2001, “Providing an Intelligent Tutoring Aid to assist undergraduate
teaching”, Yacef ($19,000).
Useful
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