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STARS Publications
Abstracts in Conference Proceedings
- Apilli, B., Hwang, J., and Xie, T., (2008), Combinatorial Testing of Access Control Policies, Proceedings of the State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium (SNCURCS 2008)
- Barnes, T., (2009), BoF: Sustaining efforts to broaden participation in computing, ACM SIGCSE 2009
- Barnes, T., and Dahlberg, T., (2007), Innovation in Broadening Participation in Computing: STARS Leadership Corps, Panel at Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing
- Barnes, T., and Dahlberg, T., (2006), The STARS Alliance: Experiences in Broadening Participation in Computing, Grace Hopper Celebration
- Barnes, T., Dahlberg, T., and Bean, K., (2009), Workshop: How to start a STARS Leadership Corps to improve retention and recruiting in computing, Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing
- Bonto-Kane, M. and Griffin, C., (2009), Timed Causal State Splitting Reconstruction Algorithm (T-CSSR), Richard Tapia Conference Celebration of Diversity in Computing
- Bonto-Kane, M. and St. Amant, R., (2008), Formal Computational Models give Guidance to Initial Design Efforts for Usability, Grace Hopper Conference for Women in Computing
- Bonto-Kane, M., and St. Amant, R. , (2009), Variance in Execution of GOMS Keyboard Level Operators Show Alternative Directions in Designing and Evaluating Interfaces, Richard Tapia Conference Celebration of Diversity in Computing
- Bonto-Kane, M., and St. Amant, R. , (2008), Examination of Variance in Production of Task Operators Questions GOMS Ability for a Quick Semi-Automated Usability Assessment of User Interfaces, Grace Hopper Conference for Women in Computing
- Dahlberg, T., Barnes, T., Boyer, K., Seals, C., Lustria, M., Lawrence, A., and Strothman, J., (2007), Developing student leaders to invent the future, Panel at Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
- Doran, K., (2009), EleMental: The Recurrence, Poster: ACM Student Research Competition at Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing 2009
- Finkelstein, S., Nickel, A., Harrison, L., Reid, M., Suma, E., and Barnes, T., (2009), cMotion: A New Game Design to Teach Emotion Recognition and Programming Logic to Children Using Virtual Humans, Poster, IEEE Virtual Reality
- Shores, L., Nietfeld, J., Hoffman, K., and McQuiggan, S., (2009), An Examination of Individual Differences in a Narrative Centered Learning Environment, Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2009, p. 3782-3788 (Best Poster Award)
Conference Papers
- Apilli, B., Hwang, J., and Xie, Tao., (2009), Combinatorial Testing of Access Control Policies, Proceedings of the Celebration of Diversity in Computer Science (TAPIA 2009)
- Barnes, T., Powell, E., Chaffin, A., and Lipford, H. , (2008), Game2Learn: Improving the engagement and motivation of CS1 students, ACM GDCSE
- Barnes, T., Richter, H., Powell, E., Chaffin, A., and Godwin, A., (2007), Game2Learn: Building CS1 learning games for retention, Proc. ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiSCE 2007)
- Biswas, T., and Dutta, R., (2011), Spatially Diffused Pathsets for Robust Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Proceedings of the 54th IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
- Bonto-Kane, M. and St. Amant, R., (2009), Computational Modeing Approaches Help Guide Early Design Efforts for Usability, Richard Tapia Conference Celebration of Diversity in Computing
- Boyer, K., Grafsgaard, J., Ha, E., Phillips, R., and Lester, J., (2011), An Affect-Enriched Dialogue Act Classification Model for Task-Oriented Dialogue, Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, p. 1190-1199
- Boyer, K., Ha, E., Wallis, M., Phillips, R., Vouk, M., and Lester, J., (2009), Discovering Tutorial Dialogue Strategies with Hidden Markov Models, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED '09)
- Boyer, K., Lahti, W., Phillips, R., Wallis, M., Lester, J., and Vouk, M., (2010), Principles of Asking Effective Questions to Improve Student Problem Solving, Proceedings of the 41st SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '10)
- Boyer, K., Phillips, R., Ha, E., Wallis, M., Vouk, M., and Lester, J., (2009), Modeling Dialogue Structure with Adjacency Pair Analysis and Hidden Markov Models, Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies Conference (NAACL HLT) Companion Volume, 49-52
- Boyer, K., Phillips, R., Wallis, M., Vouk, M., and Lester, J., (2009), The Impact of Instructor Initiative on Student Learning through Assisted Problem Solving, Proceedings of the 40th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '09)
- Boyer, K., Phillips, R., Wallis, M., Vouk, M., and Lester, J., (2008), Learner Characteristics and Feedback in Tutorial Dialogue, Proceedings of the Third ACL Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 53-61
- Boyer, K., Phillips, R., Wallis, M., Vouk, M., and Lester, J., (2009), The Impact of Instructor Initiative on Student Learning: A Tutoring Study, Proceedings of the 40th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '09), 14-18.
- Boyer, K., Thomas, N., Rorrer, A., Cooper, D., and Vouk., M., (2010), Increasing Technical Excellence, Leadership and Commitment of Computing Students through Identity-Based Mentoring, Proceedings of the 41st SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '10)
- Chaffin, A., Doran, K., Hicks, D., and Barnes, T., (2009), Experimental Evaluation of Teaching Recursion in a Video Game, Sandbox 2009: ACM SIGGRAPH Video Game Proceedings
- Dahlberg, T., Barnes, T., and Rorrer, A., (2007), The STARS Leadership Model for Broadening Participation in Computing, Proc. IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference
- Dahlberg, T., Barnes, T., Rorrer, A., Seals, C., Lustria, M., Hawkes, L., (2008), The STARS Leadership Corps: Case studies in broadening participation in computing, IEEE Frontiers in Education 2008
- Eagle, M. and Barnes, T., (2008), Wu's Castle: Teaching Arrays and Loops in a Game, ACM ITiCSE 2008
- Eagle, M., and Barnes, T., (2009), Experimental evaluation of an educational game for improved learning in introductory computing, ACM SIGCSE 2009
- Eagle, M., and T. Barnes, T., (2009), Evaluation of a Game-based Lab Assignment, ACM Foundations of Digital Games
- Golovchinsky, G., Branham, S., Carter, S., et al., (2010), Let’s go from the Whiteboard, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI 2010)
- Grafsgaard, J., Boyer, K., and Lester, J., (2011), Predicting Facial Indicators of Confusion with Hidden Markov Models, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction
- Grafsgaard, J., Boyer, K., and Lester, J., (2012), Toward a Machine Learning Framework for Understanding Affective Tutorial Interaction, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
- Grafsgaard, J., Boyer, K., Phillips, R., and Lester, J., (2011), Modeling Confusion: Facial Expression, Task, and Discourse in Task-Oriented Tutorial Dialogue, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education
- Grafsgaard, J., Boyer, K., Wiebe, E., and Lester, J., (2012), Analyzing Posture and Affect in Task Oriented Tutoring, Proceedings of the 25th Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference
- Judge, T. and Neustaedter, C., (2010), Sharing Conversation and Sharing Life: Video Conferencing in the Home, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI 2010)
- Judge, T., Neustaedter, C., and Kurtz, A., (2010), The Family Window: The Design and Evaluation of a Domestic Media Space, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI 2010)
- Kim, H., Ravindra, P., and Anyanwu, K., (2011), From SPARQL to MapReduce: The Journey Using a Nested TripleGroup Algebra, Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB2011)
- Neustaedter, C., Tang, A., and Judge, T., (2010), The Role of Community and Groupware in Geocache Creation and Maintenance, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI 2010)
- Nietfeld, J., Shores, L., and Hoffman, K., (2009), Gender Differences in Motivation within a Narrative-Centered Learning Environment, Proceedings of The Hawaiian International Conference on Education
- Ravindra, P., Hong, S., Kim, H., and Anyanwu, K., (2011), Efficient Processing of RDF Graph Pattern Matching on MapReduce Platforms, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds (DataCloud-SC11)
- Robison, J., McQuiggan, S., and Lester, J, (2009), Modeling Task-Based vs. Affect-Based Feedback Behavior in Pedagogical Agents: An Inductive Approach, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education (AIED-2009), p. 25-32
- Robison, J., McQuiggan, S., and Lester, J., (2009), Evaluating the Consequences of Affective Feedback in Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Proceedings of International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII-2009) (Best Student Paper Award)
- Robison, J., Rowe, J., McQuiggan, S., and Lester, J., (2009), Predicting User Psychological Characteristics from Interactions with Empathetic Virtual Agents, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA-2009)
- Rowe, J., Ha, E., and Lester, J., (2008), Archetype-Driven Character Dialogue Generation for Interactive Narrative, Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 45-58.
- Rowe, J., McQuiggan, S., Robison, J., and Lester, J., (2009), Off-Task Behavior in Narrative-Centered Learning Environments, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education (AIED-2009), p. 99-106.
- Rowe, J., McQuiggan, S., Robison, J., Marcey, D., and Lester, J., (2009), StoryEval: An Empirical Evaluation Framework for Narrative Generation, Working Notes of 2009 AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Narrative Technologies II
- Seals, C., Agarwal, R., Rouse, K., Lindsey, R., Chilamantula, V., and Chapman, R., (2008), Computer Clubs Programs to Increase Computer Literacy, ADMI conference, on CD-ROM
- Wahid, S., Branham, S., Cairco, L., McCrickard, D. S., and Harrison, S., (2009), Picking Up Artifacts: Storyboarding as a Gateway to Reuse, Proceedings of the IFIP TC.13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT '09), p. 528-541
- Williams, A., Seals, C., Rouse, K., and Gilbert, J., (2006), Visual Programming with Squeak SimBuilder: Techniques for E-Learning in the Creation of Science Frameworks, Proceedings of E-Learn 2006 World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education, on CD-ROM
- Williams, L., McCrickard, S., Layman, L., and Hussein, K., (2008), Eleven Guidelines for Implementing Pair Programming in the Classroom, Agile 2008 Education Track, p. 445-453.
Published Journal Papers
- Barnes, T., Dahlberg, T., Buch, K., & Bean, K., (2009), The STARS Leadership Corps: An Innovative Computer Science Learning Community, Learning Community Journal, 1, 2, 5-18
- Bell-Watkins, K., Barnes, T., and Thomas, N., (2009), Developing computing identity as a model for prioritizing dynamic K-12 computing curricular standards, J. Comput. Small Coll. 24, 3 (Jan. 2009), 125-131
- Boyer, K., Phillips, R., Wallis, M., Vouk, M., and Lester, J., (2009), Investigating the Role of Motivation in Computer Science Education through One-on-One Tutoring, Computer Science Education, Vol. 19 No. 2, 111-136
- Dahlberg, T., Barnes, T., Buch, K., & Bean, K., (2010), Incorporating service learning into a computing leadership seminar, Computer Science Education, 20, 3, 169-180
- Dahlberg, Teresa and Barnes, Tiffany and Buch, Kim and Bean, Karen, (2010), Applying service learning to computer science: attracting and engaging under-represented students, Computer Science Education, vol. 20, num. 3, pg. 169-180
- Davis, M., Watkins, K. Z., and Allen, D., (2009), SoTL Commons Conference: A Spirit of Inquiry, Invited Essay on SoTL, International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, vol. 3, no. 2
- Ray, K. and Chakraborty, A., (2011), A fuzzy version of default logic, International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, Volume 4, Issue 1, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. 5-24
- Seals, C.D., Rouse, K., McMillian, Y. Williams, A., Gilbert, J., and Chapman, R., (2008), Computer Gaming at Every Age: A Comparative Evaluation of Alice, Journal of Educational Technology, Vol.5 No. 3
- Swanier, C., Seals, C.D., and Billionaire, E., (2009), Visual Programming: A Programming Tool for Increasing Mathematics Achievement, Journal of Educational Technology, Vol.6 No. 2. pp. 1-5
- Watkins, K. Z., (2009), Peer Evaluation as a Needed Web 2.0 Activity in Project Management for Teaching Practical Software Engineering, roceedings of the 2009 ACM Special Interest Group for Information Technology Education Conference, pages 173 – 177
- Watkins, K. Z. and Cook, R., (2009), Learning to Culturally Whip Up a Computer, Proceedings for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, pages 14.1
- Watkins, K. Z. and Watkins, M., (2009), Towards Minimizing Pair Incompatibility to Help Retain Under-represented Groups in Beginning Programming Courses, ACM Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol. 25, no. 2, pages 221 – 227
- Williams, A., Rouse, K., and Seals, C.D., (2008), Enhancing Reading Literacy in Elementary Children using Programming for Scientific Simulations, International Journal on E-Learning, 8:1 (15%)
Symposium and Workshop Proceedings
- Boyer, K., Ha, E., Phillips, R., Wallis, M., Vouk, M., Lester, J., (2009), Inferring Tutorial Dialogue Structure with Hidden Markov Modeling, Proceedings of the Fourth NAACL HLT Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (EducationNLP), 19-26.
- Boyer, K., Lahti, W., Phillips, R., Wallis, M., Vouk, M., and Lester, J., (2009), An Empirically Derived Question Taxonomy for Task-Oriented Tutorial Dialogue, Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Question Generation
- Nietfeld, J., Shores, L., and Cao, L., (2010), Can Motivation and Beliefs Scales Predict Classroom Performance?, Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA-2010)
- Rowe, J., McQuiggan, S., Robison, J., Marcey, D., and Lester, J., (2009), StoryEval: An Empirical Evaluation Framework for Narrative Generation, Working Notes of the 2009 AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Narrative Technologies II
- Shores, L. and Nietfeld, J., (2013), Challenges and Potential Solutions to Encourage Self-Regulation in Game-Based Learning Environments, Proceedings of the 4th Biennial Meeting of the EARLI Special Interest Group 16 Metacognition (in press)
- Shores, L., Robison, J., Rowe, J., Hoffman, K., and Lester, J., (2009), Narrative-Centered Learning Environments: A Self-Regulated Learning Perspective, Working Notes of the 2009 AAAI Fall Symposium on Cognitive and Metacognitive Educational Systems
Submitted Journal Papers
- Dahlberg, T., Barnes, T. Buch, K., & Rorrer, A., (2013), The STARS Alliance: Viable Strategies for Attracting, Retaining, Supporting, and Developing Underrepresented Students in Computing. Association of Computer Machinery, Transactions of Computing Education, Special Issue on Broadening Participation
- Dahlberg, T., Barnes, T., Bean, K., & Buch., K. , (2013), Engaging Under-represented Computer Science Students in Service: An Innovative Course and Case Study Findings, Computer Science Education (in review)
- Seals, C., Agarwal, R., Agarwal, S., and Evans, C., (2013), Experiences of computing camps to aid at risk youth with CAMP ROC: Reaching Our Children, Journal of Transformative Education (in review)
Submitted Conference Papers
- Nietfeld, J., Shores, L., and Hoffmann, K., (2013), The Effect of Narrative Centered Learning Environments on Student Application Level Knowledge, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education (in review)
- Shores, L., Hoffmann, K., and Nietfeld, J., (2013), The Impact of Narrative-Centered Learning Environments on Situational Interest and Problem-Solving Transfer, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Eastern Educational Research Association (EERA) (in review)
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