2008 ICT Workshop on Intelligent Lifelong Learning Companions

8:00 - 9:00        Check-in & breakfast

8:45 - 9:00        "This is the CCT" (VR Theatre)

9:00 - 9:30        Workshop overview & objectives
                          H. Chad Lane, USC ICT  [pdf]

9:30 - 10:15      Long-term human-computer relationships
                          Tim Bickmore, Northeastern University  [pdf]

10:15 - 10:30    break

10:30 - 11:15    Lifelong Learning Companions: Intelligent Computational Agents for
                          Intelligent Human Lifelong Learners
                          Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado  [pdf]

11:15 - 12:00    Lifelong learner modelling: scrutability, control, reflection, augmented cognition
                          Judy Kay, University of Sydney  [pdf]

12:00 - 12:45    lunch

12:45 - 2:00      Socially Aware Pedagogical Agents: Steps to Building a Life-Long Learning Companion
                          Gord McCalla & Jim Greer, University of Saskatchewan  [pdf]

2:00 - 2:15        break

2:15 - 3:00        Teaching, Learning, Doing and Conversing: How They Fit Together
                          Charles Rich, Worcester Polytechnic Institute  [pdf]

3:00 - 3:30        Lifelong Learning Companions: Pedagogical Requirements
                          Millie Abell, U.S. Army Headquarters Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC)  [pdf]

3:30 - 3:45        break

3:45 - 6:00        breakout groups
                          » Human Learning & Requirements  
                          » Assessment & Learning Modeling  
                          » Implementation, Interoperability, & Scaling 
                          » Communication & Relationship Building 
                          » Guidance, Experience, & Assistance 
 
6:00 - 6:30        shuttle to dinner

6:30 - 8:30        dinner at The Organic Panificio
                          4211 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA

Friday, October 3, 2008

8:00 - 9:00        breakfast

9:00 - 9:45        Long-Term Game-Based Learning for Communicative Proficiency
                          W. Lewis Johnson, Alelo, Inc.  [pdf]

9:45 - 10:30      Creating Rapport with Virtual Agents
                          Jon Gratch, USC ICT  [pdf]  [video]

10:30 - 10:45    break

10:45 - 11:30    Low-fidelity simulations for assessment
                          Joseph Psotka, U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences  [pdf]

12:00 - 12:45    lunch

12:45 - 1:30      Bootstrapped Learning Creating an Electronic Student that learns from
                          Natural Instruction: a report from the project
                          Candy Sidner, BAE Systems Advanced Information Technologies   [pdf, pdf2]

1:30 - 2:15        Implications of the interaction plateau for lifelong learning companions
                          Kurt VanLehn, Arizona State University  [pdf]

2:15 - 2:30        break

2:30 - 5:30        Group reports, discussion, & wrap-up 
                          » Human Learning & Requirements (leader: Jim Belanich, ARI)  [pdf]
                          » Assessment & Learning Modeling (leader:  Paula Durlach, ARI)  [pdf]
                          » Implementation, Interoperability, & Scaling (leader: Eric Roberts, ADL) [pdf]
                          » Communication & Relationship Building (leader: David Traum, ICT)  [pdf]
                          » Guidance, Experience, & Assistance (leader: Andrew Gordon, ICT)  [pdf]

5:30 - 7:00        no-host social at Shanghai Red's

7:00 - 9:00        dinner at Shanghai Red's
                          13813 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey, CA