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Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) have become widely popular in recent times. Most of the commercial IPAs today support a wide range of skills including Alarms, Reminders, Weather Updates, Music, News, Factual Questioning-Answering,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Madan Gopal Jhawar , Vipindeep Vangala , Nishchay Sharma , Ankur Hayatnagarkar , Mansi Saxena , Swati Valecha

Nowadays Digital Personal Assistants (DPA) become more and more popular. DPAs help to increase quality of life especially for elderly or disabled people. In this paper we develop an open source DPA and smart home system as a 3-rd party…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Denis Usachev , Azat Khusnutdinov , Manuel Mazzara , Adil Khan , Ivan Panchenko

Robotic process automation (RPA) has emerged as the leading approach to automate tasks in business processes. Moving away from back-end automation, RPA automated the mouse-click on user interfaces; this outside-in approach reduced the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Yara Rizk , Vatche Isahagian , Scott Boag , Yasaman Khazaeni , Merve Unuvar , Vinod Muthusamy , Rania Khalaf

This manuscript presents teaching and curriculum design for Information Technology classes. Today, students demand hands-on activities for the newest technologies. It is feasible to satisfy this appetite for exciting education by employing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-04-09 Timur Mirzoev

High enrollment in STEM-related degree programs has created increasing demand for scalable tutoring support, as universities experience a shortage of qualified instructors and teaching assistants (TAs). To address this challenge, LeafTutor,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Madison Bochard , Tim Conser , Alyssa Duran , Lazaro Martull , Pu Tian , Yalong Wu

Conversational AIs, or chatbots, mimic human speech when conversing. Smart assistants facilitate the automation of several tasks that needed human intervention earlier. Because of their accuracy, absence of dependence on human resources,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Aditya Paranjape , Yash Patwardhan , Vedant Deshpande , Aniket Darp , Jayashree Jagdale

The rapid advancement of large-scale language models (LLMs) has shown their potential to transform intelligent education systems (IESs) through automated teaching and learning support applications. However, current IESs often rely on…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yuxin Liu , Zeqing Song , Jiong Lou , Chentao Wu , Jie Li

Jill Watson, a virtual teaching assistant powered by LLMs, answers student questions and engages them in extended conversations on courseware provided by the instructors. In this paper, we analyze student interactions with Jill across…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Pratyusha Maiti , Ashok K. Goel

We will demonstrate a conversational products recommendation agent. This system shows how we combine research in personalized recommendation systems with research in dialogue systems to build a virtual sales agent. Based on new deep…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Yueming Sun , Yi Zhang , Yunfei Chen , Roger Jin

Quantum computing education faces significant challenges due to its complexity and the limitations of current tools; this paper introduces a novel Intelligent Teaching Assistant for quantum computing education and details its evolutionary…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Iizalaarab Elhaimeur , Nikos Chrisochoides

We introduce a Virtual Reality (VR) one-on-one tutoring system to support anatomy education. A student uses a fully immersive VR headset to explore the anatomy of the base of the human skull. A teacher guides the student by using the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Patrick Saalfeld , Anna Schmeier , Wolfgang D'Hanis , Hermann-Josef Rothkötter , Bernhard Preim

Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) can provide personalized and self-paced learning experience. The emergence of large language models (LLMs) further enables better human-machine interaction, and facilitates the development of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zhengyuan Liu , Stella Xin Yin , Geyu Lin , Nancy F. Chen

This work presents the system ANITA (Analytic Tableau Proof Assistant) developed for teaching analytic tableaux to computer science students. The tool is written in Python and can be used as a desktop application, or in a web platform. This…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Davi Romero Vasconcelos

Hybrid tutoring, where a human tutor supports multiple students in learning with educational technology, is an increasingly common application to deliver high-impact tutoring at scale. However, past hybrid tutoring applications are limited…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Eason Chen , Xinyi Tang , Aprille Xi , Chenyu Lin , Conrad Borchers , Shivang Gupta , Jionghao Lin , Kenneth R Koedinger

This study examines the impact of an AI instructional agent on students' perceived learner control and academic performance in a medium demanding course with lecturing as the main teaching strategy. Based on a randomized controlled trial,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Fei Qin , Zhanxin Hao , Jifan Yu , Zhiyuan Liu , Yu Zhang

An Intelligent Personal Agent (IPA) is an agent that has the purpose of helping the user to gain information through reliable resources with the help of knowledge navigation techniques and saving time to search the best content. The agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Amit Kumar , Rahul Dutta , Harbhajan Rai

Immersive learning environments such as virtual classrooms in Virtual Reality (VR) offer learners unique learning experiences, yet providing effective learner support remains a challenge. While prior HCI research has explored in-lecture…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Shi Liu , Martin Feick , Linus Bierhoff , Alexander Maedche

Personalization is crucial for effective learning, yet online learning, designed for widespread availability and open access, lacks personalized guidance. Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) offer opportunities to bridge…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xinyu Jessica Wang , Christine P. Lee , Bilge Mutlu

Interactive reinforcement learning has become an important apprenticeship approach to speed up convergence in classic reinforcement learning problems. In this regard, a variant of interactive reinforcement learning is policy shaping which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Francisco Cruz , Sven Magg , Yukie Nagai , Stefan Wermter

Resource limitations make it hard to provide all students with one of the most effective educational interventions: personalized instruction. Reinforcement learning could be a key tool to reduce the development cost and improve the…