News & Events

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2018

  • We are recruiting motivated students to join our research! More info here.
  • ICMI Conference in Boulder, CO and workshop on Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data (MCPMD)
    • Leah presents our paper “Integrating Non-Invasive Neuroimaging and Computer Log Data to Improve Understanding of Cognitive Processes”
  • Dr. Solovey and the Advanced Interaction Research Lab move to WPI in Massachusetts
  • New NSF Award with Erin Walker (ASU/Pitt) and Kate Arrington (Lehigh): “NCS-FO: Integrating Non-Invasive Neuroimaging and Educational Data Mining to Improve Understanding of Robust Learning Processes”
  • NSF funds new integrative approaches to cognitive science, neuroscience
  • Kickoff of the NSF-funded Research Experience for Teachers Site for Machine Learning to Enhance Human-Centered Computing. Check out Kyle’s and Damian’s websites about their projects in the Advanced Interaction Research Lab over the summer.
  • Neuroergonomics Conference at Drexel in Philadelphia. Leah presents our paper “Towards Neuroadaptive Personal Learning Environments: Using fNIRS to Detect Changes in Attentional State” and Reza presents our paper “Assessing human reaction to a virtual agent’s facial feedback in a simple Q&A setting” 
  • NSF-funded REThink Research Symposium showcases research conducted over the summer by Philadelphia area high school and community college teachers.
  • Leah presents her work at the Week of Undergraduate Excellence:Mind the (Neuroadaptive Learning) Gap – Promoting Responsible Development of Neuroadaptive Learning Technology with Early Stakeholder Input
  • Towards Neuroadaptive Learning Environments – Using Direct Brain Assessment to Detect Changes in Attentional State
  • Two abstracts accepted to the 2018 Neuroergonomics Conference:L. Friedman, R. Liu, A. Kim, E. Walker, E. Solovey (2018). Towards Neuroadaptive Personal Learning Environments: Using fNIRS to Detect Changes in Attentional State, Proc. 2nd International Conference on Neuroergonomics, Frontiers.
  • R. Moradinezhad, E. Solovey (2018). Assessing human reaction to a virtual agent’s facial feedback in a simple Q&A setting, Proc. 2nd International Conference on Neuroergonomics, Frontiers.
  • Congratulations to Leah Friedman for being offered a DAAD-RISE scholarship for a summer research internship in Magdeburg, Germany studying neural correlates of healthy and pathological decision making! 
  • Congratulations to Denisa Qori for being selected to participate in the HCI in Ubicomp IRES program in Germany during the summer of 2018!
  • Congratulations to Ruixue Liu for being offered an internship at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, working with Advait Sarkar and Cecily Morrison!

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