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Physical skill acquisition, from sports techniques to surgical procedures, requires instruction and feedback. In the absence of a human expert, Physical Task Guidance (PTG) systems can offer a promising alternative. These systems integrate…

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Standard approaches to controlling dynamical systems involve biologically implausible steps such as backpropagation of errors or intermediate model-based system representations. Recent advances in machine learning have shown that…

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AI-supported tools can help learners overcome challenges in programming education by providing adaptive assistance. However, existing research often focuses on individual tools rather than deriving broader design recommendations. A key…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zihan Wu , Yicheng Tang , Barbara Ericson

Even though intelligent systems such as Siri or Google Assistant are enjoyable (and useful) dialog partners, users can only access predefined functionality. Enabling end-users to extend the functionality of intelligent systems will be the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Sebastian Weigelt , Vanessa Steurer , Walter F. Tichy

This paper addresses the problem of enabling a robot to represent and recreate visual information through physical motion, focusing on drawing using pens, brushes, or other tools. This work uses ergodicity as a control objective that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Ahalya Prabhakar , Anastasia Mavrommati , Jarvis Schultz , Todd Murphey

This paper contributes a first study into how different human users deliver simultaneous control and feedback signals during human-robot interaction. As part of this work, we formalize and present a general interactive learning framework…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Kory W. Mathewson , Patrick M. Pilarski

Written reflective practice is a regular exercise pre-service teachers perform during their higher education. Usually, their lecturers are expected to provide individual feedback, which can be a challenging task to perform on a regular…

The abilities of Generative-Artificial Intelligence (AI) to produce real-time, sophisticated responses across diverse contexts has promised a huge potential in physics education, particularly in providing customized feedback. In this study,…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-08-14 Amogh Sirnoorkar , N. Sanjay Rebello

The effective communication of procedural knowledge remains a significant challenge in natural language processing (NLP), as purely textual instructions often fail to convey complex physical actions and spatial relationships. We address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jing Bi , Pinxin Liu , Ali Vosoughi , Jiarui Wu , Jinxi He , Chenliang Xu

End of semester student evaluations of teaching are the dominant mechanism for providing feedback to academics on their teaching practice. For large classes, however, the volume of feedback makes these tools impractical for this purpose.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Mike Zhang , Euan D Lindsay , Frederik Bode Thorbensen , Danny Bøgsted Poulsen , Johannes Bjerva

Robots will eventually be part of every household. It is thus critical to enable algorithms to learn from and be guided by non-expert users. In this paper, we bring a human in the loop, and enable a human teacher to give feedback to a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Huan Ling , Sanja Fidler

E-learning platforms that personalise content selection with AI are often criticised for lacking transparency and controllability. Researchers have therefore proposed solutions such as open learner models and letting learners select from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Jeroen Ooge , Arno Vanneste , Maxwell Szymanski , Katrien Verbert

Feedback is one of the most powerful influences on student learning, with extensive research examining how best to implement it in educational settings. Increasingly, feedback is being generated by artificial intelligence (AI), offering…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Omar Alsaiari , Nilufar Baghaei , Jason M. Lodge , Omid Noroozi , Dragan Gašević , Marie Boden , Hassan Khosravi

Generative AI is reshaping higher education programming through vibe coding, where students collaborate with AI via natural language rather than writing code line-by-line. We conceptualize this practice as help-seeking, analyzing 19,418…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Daiana Rinja , Eduardo Araujo Oliveira , Sonsoles López-Pernas , Mohammed Saqr , Marcus Specht , Kamila Misiejuk

Clear communication of robot intent fosters transparency and interpretability in physical human-robot interaction (pHRI), particularly during assistive tasks involving direct human-robot contact. We introduce CoRI, a pipeline that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Junxiang Wang , Emek Barış Küçüktabak , Rana Soltani Zarrin , Zackory Erickson

Many relevant tasks require an agent to reach a certain state, or to manipulate objects into a desired configuration. For example, we might want a robot to align and assemble a gear onto an axle or insert and turn a key in a lock. These…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Carlos Florensa , David Held , Markus Wulfmeier , Michael Zhang , Pieter Abbeel

We propose an AI-based pilot trainer to help students learn how to fly aircraft. First, an AI agent uses behavioral cloning to learn flying maneuvers from qualified flight instructors. Later, the system uses the agent's decisions to detect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Michael Guevarra , Srijita Das , Christabel Wayllace , Carrie Demmans Epp , Matthew E. Taylor , Alan Tay

Through the method of Learning Feedback Linearization, we seek to learn a linearizing controller to simplify the process of controlling a car to race autonomously. A soft actor-critic approach is used to learn a decoupling matrix and drift…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Michael Estrada , Sida Li , Xiangyu Cai

Second language (L2) English learners often find it difficult to improve their pronunciations due to the lack of expressive and personalized corrective feedback. In this paper, we present Pronunciation Teacher (PTeacher), a Computer-Aided…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Yaohua Bu , Tianyi Ma , Weijun Li , Hang Zhou , Jia Jia , Shengqi Chen , Kaiyuan Xu , Dachuan Shi , Haozhe Wu , Zhihan Yang , Kun Li , Zhiyong Wu , Yuanchun Shi , Xiaobo Lu , Ziwei Liu

In this work, we aim to enable legged robots to learn how to interpret human social cues and produce appropriate behaviors through physical human guidance. However, learning through physical engagement can place a heavy burden on users when…