7 papers
Exploring How Agent Voice Accents Shape Human-AI Collaboration in K-12 Group Learning
Prerna Ravi, Carúmey Stevens, Ben Hurt +3
Collaboration is widely recognized as a cornerstone of 21st-century education, yet teachers still encounter persistent challenges in fostering productive peer interaction. LLM conv…
Exploring Teachers' Perspectives on Using Conversational AI Agents for Group Collaboration
Prerna Ravi, Carúmey Stevens, Beatriz Flamia Azevedo +5
Collaboration is a cornerstone of 21st-century learning, yet teachers continue to face challenges in supporting productive peer interaction. Emerging generative AI tools offer new…
AI and Collective Decisions: Strengthening Legitimacy and Losers' Consent
Suyash Fulay, Prerna Ravi, Emily Kubin +3
AI is increasingly used to scale collective decision-making, but far less attention has been paid to how such systems can support procedural legitimacy, particularly the conditions…
Agora: Teaching the Skill of Consensus-Finding with AI Personas Grounded in Human Voice
Prerna Ravi, Om Gokhale, Suyash Fulay +3
Deliberative democratic theory suggests that civic competence: the capacity to navigate disagreement, weigh competing values, and arrive at collective decisions is not innate but d…
Leveraging Large Language Models to Identify Conversation Threads in Collaborative Learning
Prerna Ravi, Dong Won Lee, Beatriz Flamia +5
Understanding how ideas develop and flow in small-group conversations is critical for analyzing collaborative learning. A key structural feature of these interactions is threading,…
"How can we learn and use AI at the same time?": Participatory Design of GenAI with High School Students
Isabella Pu, Prerna Ravi, Linh Dieu Dinh +5
As generative AI (GenAI) emerges as a transformative force, clear understanding of high school students' perspectives is essential for GenAI's meaningful integration in high school…