8 papers
Practicing a Second Language Without Fear: Mixed Reality Agents for Interactive Group Conversation
Mariana Fernandez-Espinosa, Kai Zhang, Jad Bendarkawi +8
Developing speaking proficiency in a second language can be cognitively demanding and emotionally taxing, often triggering fear of making mistakes or being excluded from larger gro…
Breaking the Plane: Exploring Real-Time Visualization of 3D Surfaces in Augmented Reality with Handwritten Input
Liam Franco Esparraguera, Kristoffer Selberg, Brian Lou +4
We introduce Breaking the Plane, an augmented reality (AR) application built for AR headsets that enables users to visualize 3D mathematical functions using handwritten input. Rese…
Hapster: Using Apple Watch Haptics to Enable Live Low-Friction Student Feedback in the Physical Classroom
Oleg Aleksandrovich Golev, Michelle Huang, Chanketya Nop +3
The benefits of student response systems (SRSs) for in-person lectures are well-researched. However, all current SRSs only rely on a visual interface to relay information to the in…
GPTFootprint: Increasing Consumer Awareness of the Environmental Impacts of LLMs
Nora Graves, Vitus Larrieu, Yingyue Trace Zhang +4
With the growth of AI, researchers are studying how to mitigate its environmental impact, primarily by proposing policy changes and increasing awareness among developers. However,…
Redefining Research Crowdsourcing: Incorporating Human Feedback with LLM-Powered Digital Twins
Amanda Chan, Catherine Di, Joseph Rupertus +4
Crowd work platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk and Prolific are vital for research, yet workers' growing use of generative AI tools poses challenges. Researchers face compromised…
ConversAR: Exploring Embodied LLM-Powered Group Conversations in Augmented Reality for Second Language Learners
Jad Bendarkawi, Ashley Ponce, Sean Mata +6
Group conversations are valuable for second language (L2) learners as they provide opportunities to practice listening and speaking, exercise complex turn-taking skills, and experi…