8 papers
Why This and Not That? A Collaborative Reflection Approach for Understanding Thought Coverage in Decision Making Support Dialog
Morita Tarvirdians, Hayley Hung, Catharine Oertel
Conversational agents that support reflection for decision making often rely on adaptive dialogue policies that map observed user behavior to actions such as probing, deepening, or…
Reflecti-Mate: A Conversational Agent for Adaptive Decision-Making Support Through System 1 and System 2 Thinking
Morita Tarvirdians, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Hayley Hung +2
Making high-stakes personal decisions involves cognitive, emotional, and intuitive processes, and individuals differ in how they allocate attention across these modes. Integration…
What makes an Expert? Comparing Problem-solving Practices in Data Science Notebooks
Manuel Valle Torre, Marcus Specht, Catharine Oertel
The development of data science expertise requires tacit, process-oriented skills that are difficult to teach directly. This study addresses the resulting challenge of empirically…
LLM Chatbots in High School Programming: Exploring Behaviors and Interventions
Manuel Valle Torre, Marcus Specht, Catharine Oertel
This study uses a Design-Based Research (DBR) cycle to refine the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) in high school programming education. The initial problem was identifi…
Reflection Before Action: Designing a Framework for Quantifying Thought Patterns for Increased Self-awareness in Personal Decision Making
Morita Tarvirdians, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Hayley Hung +2
When making significant life decisions, people increasingly turn to conversational AI tools, such as large language models (LLMs). However, LLMs often steer users toward solutions,…
JELAI: Integrating AI and Learning Analytics in Jupyter Notebooks
Manuel Valle Torre, Thom van der Velden, Marcus Specht +1
Generative AI offers potential for educational support, but often lacks pedagogical grounding and awareness of the student's learning context. Furthermore, researching student inte…