Publications: 2001/2002
Books (authored, edited)
Otero, J. C., León, J. A., & Graesser, A. C. (Eds.). (2002). The psychology of science text comprehension. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Link to Book
Refereed Journal Publications (does not include book chapters)
Graesser, A. C., Person, N. K., Harter, D., & Tutoring Research Group. (2001). Teaching tactics and dialog in AutoTutor. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 12(3), 257-279. Link to PDF
Graesser, A. C., Person, N. K., & Hu, X. (2002). Improving comprehension through discourse processes. New Directions in Teaching and Learning, 89, 33-44.
Graesser, A. C., VanLehn, K., Rosé, C. P., Jordan, P. W., & Harter, D. (2001). Intelligent tutoring systems with conversational dialogue. AI Magazine, 22(4), 39-52. Link to PDF
Graesser, A. C., & Whitten, S. N. (2001). Scripts of the mind and educational reform. Contemporary Psychology, 46(3), 261-262.
Harter, D., Graesser, A. C., & Franklin, S. P. (2001). Bridging the gap: Dynamics as a unified view of cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 45-46. Link to PDF
Link, K. E., Kreuz, R. J., Graesser, A. C., & Tutoring Research Group. (2001). Factors that influence the perception of feedback delivered by a pedagogical agent. International Journal of Speech Technology, 4, 145-153. Link to PDF
Otero, J. C., & Graesser, A. C. (2001). PREG: Elements of a model of question asking. Cognition and Instruction, 19(2), 143-175. Link to PDF
Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., Kreuz, R. J., Pomeroy, V., & Tutoring Research Group. (2001). Simulating human tutor dialog moves in AutoTutor. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 12, 23-39. Link to PDF
Rajan, S., Craig, S. D., Gholson, B., Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., & Tutoring Research Group. (2001). AutoTutor: Incorporating backchannel feedback and other human-like conversational behaviors into an intelligent tutoring system. International Journal of Speech Technology, 4, 117-126. Link to PDF
Vidal-Abarca, E., Reyes, H., Gilabert, R., Calpe, J., Soria, E., & Graesser, A. C. (2002). ETAT: Expository text analysis tool. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 34(1), 93-107. DOC Version
Whitten, S. N. (2001). Introduction: The psychology of themes. Poetics, 29, 135–138. Link to PDF
Book Chapters
Graesser, A. C. (2001). Is Siegfried Schmidt’s constructivism alive and well today? In A. Barsch, G. Rusch, & R. Viehoff (Eds.), Leitideen-Leitdifferenzen: Festschrift for Siegfried Schmidt.
Graesser, A. C., & Klettke, B. (2001). Agency, plot, and a structural affect theory of literary story comprehension. In D. Schram & S. Steen (Eds.), The psychology and sociology of literature: In honor of Erlund Ibsch (pp. 57-69). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Link to PDF
Graesser, A. C., León, J. A., & Otero, J. C. (2002). Introduction to the psychology of science text comprehension. In J. C. Otero, J. A. León, & A. C. Graesser (Eds.), The psychology of science text comprehension (pp. 1-15). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. PDF Version
Graesser, A. C., Olde, B. A., & Klettke, B. (2002). How does the mind construct and represent stories? In M. C. Green, J. J. Strange, & T. C. Brock (Eds.), Narrative impact: Social and cognitive foundations (pp. 231-263). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. PDF Version
Graesser, A. C., Pomeroy, V. J., & Craig, S. D. (2002). Psychological and computational research on theme comprehension. In W. van Peer & M. M. Louwerse (Eds.), Thematics in psychology and literary studies (pp. 19-34). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. LINK TO BOOK
Graesser, A. C., Wiemer-Hastings, P., & Wiemer-Hastings, K. (2001). Constructing inferences and relations during text comprehension. In T. Sanders, J. Schilperoord & W. Spooren (Eds.), Text representation: Linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects (pp. 249-271). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Link to Book
Refereed Conference Publications and Abstracts
Craig, S. D., Gholson, B., Susarla, S., Hu, X., Graesser, A., & Toth, J. (2001). The Human Use Regulatory Affairs Advisor: A web-based information retrieval system with a user-friendly interface design. In W. Fowler & J. Hasebrook (Eds.), Proceedings for WEBNET, the World Conference on the WWW and the Internet (pp. 241–246). Norfolk, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. Link to PDF
Franceschetti, D. R., Karnavat, A., Marineau, J., McCallie, G. L., Olde, B. A., Terry, B. L., & Graesser, A. C. (2001). Development of physics text corpora for latent semantic analysis. In J. D. Moore & K. Stenning (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 297–300). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Link to PDF
Franklin, S. P., & Graesser, A. C. (2001). Modeling cognition with software agents. In J. D. Moore, & K. Stenning (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 301-306). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Link to PDF
Graesser, A. C. (2001). Military psychology in personnel management. In T. Filjak (Ed.), Proceedings of the 36th International Applied Military Psychology Symposium (pp. 293–294). Zagreb, Croatia: Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Croatia. Link to PDF
Graesser, A. C., Hu, X., Olde, B. A., Ventura, M., Olney, A., Louwerse, M., Franceschetti, D. R., & Person, N. K. (2002). Implementing latent semantic analysis in learning environments with conversational agents and tutorial dialog. In W. G. Gray & C. D. Schunn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 37). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. DOC Version
Graesser, A. C., Hu, X., & Person, N. K. (2001). Teaching with the help of talking heads. Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 460-461. Link to PDF
Graesser, A. C., Hu, X., Person, P., Jackson, T., & Toth, J. (2002). Modules and information retrieval facilities of the Human Use Regulatory Affairs Advisor (HURAA). In M. Driscoll & T. C. Reeves (Eds.), Proceedings for E-Learning 2002: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education (pp. 353-360). Montreal, Canada: AACE. (Outstanding Paper Award). Link to PDF
Graesser, A. C., Hu, X., Person, N. K., Stewart, C., Toth, J., Jackson, G. T., Susarla, S., & Ventura, M. (2002). Learning about the ethical treatment of human subjects in experiments on a web facility with a conversational agent and ITS components. In S. A. Cerri, G. Gouarderes, & F. Paraguacu (Eds.), Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2002 (pp. 972-981). Berlin, Germany: Springer. DOC Version
Graesser, A. C., Hu, X., Susarla, S., Harter, D., Person, N., Louwerse, M., Olde, B., & the Tutoring Research Group. (2001). AutoTutor: An intelligent tutor and conversational tutoring scaffold. Papers from the Workshop on “Tutorial Dialog Systems” at the Artificial Intelligence in Education 2001 Conference (pp. 47–49). San Antonio, TX. Link to PDF
Graesser, A. C., Olde, B., & Lu, S. (2001). Question-driven explanatory reasoning about devices that malfunction. In T. Filjak (Ed.), Proceedings of the 36th International Applied Military Psychology Symposium (pp. 114–119). Zagreb, Croatia: Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Croatia. Link to Book
Graesser, A. C., Karnavat, A. B., Daniel, F. K., Cooper, E., Whitten, S. N., & Louwerse, M. (2001). A computer tool to improve questionnaire design. Statistical Policy Working Paper 33, Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (pp. 36–48). Washington, DC: Bureau of Labor Statistics. Link to award page
Harter, D., Kozma, R., & Graesser, A. C. (2001). Models of ontogenetic development for autonomous adaptive systems. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2001), Edinburgh, U.K. Link to PDF
Hu, X., Mathews, E., Graesser, A. C., & Susarla, S. (2002). EBOOK.EXE: A desktop authoring tool for HURAA. In T. C. Reeves (Ed.), Proceedings for E-Learning 2002: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education (pp. 471-476). Montreal, Canada: AACE. Link to PDF
Jackson, T., Mueller, J., Person, N., & Graesser, A. C. (2001). Assessing the pedagogical effectiveness and conversational appropriateness in three versions of AutoTutor. In J. D. Moore, C.L. Redfield, & W. L. Johnson (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Education: AI-ED in the Wired and Wireless Future. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AI-ED) (pp. 263–267). Amsterdam: IOS Press. Link to PDF
Louwerse, M., Graesser, A. C., Hu, X., & Person, N. (2002). The role of intelligent tutoring systems in education: An overview of AutoTutor. Proceedings of the Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.
Louwerse, M. M., Graesser, A. C., Olney, A. M., & Tutoring Research Group. (2002). Good computational manners: Mixed-initiative dialog in conversational agents. Etiquette for Human-Computer Work: Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium, 71-76. Link to PDF
Lu, S., Olde, B., Cooper, E., & Graesser, A. C. (2001). Individual differences in reasoning about broken devices: An eye tracking study. In J. D. Moore & K. Stenning (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 582–587). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Link to PDF
Lu, S., & Graesser, A. C. (2001). Does an illustration help to comprehend scientific texts? Proceedings of the Third International Conference of Cognitive Science (p. 643). Beijing, China: Press of the University of Science and Technology of China.
Marineau, J., Olney, A., Louwerse, M., Person, N., Olde, B., Susarla, S., Chipman, P., Graesser, A. C., & Tutoring Research Group. (2002). AutoTutor's log files and categories of language and discourse. In C. P. Rose & V. Eleven (Eds.), Workshop Proceedings of Empirical Methods for Tutorial Dialogue Systems at IRS 2002 (pp. 85-92). San Sebastian, Spain. Link to PDF
Moreno, K. N., Klettke, B., Nibbaragandla, K., Graesser, A. C., & Tutoring Research Group. (2002). Perceived characteristics and pedagogical efficacy of animated conversational agents. In S. A. Cerri, G. Gouarderes, & F. Paraguacu (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (pp. 963-971). Berlin, Germany: Springer. DOC Version
Olde, B. A., Franceschetti, D. R., Karnavat, A., Graesser, A. C. & Tutoring Research Group. (2002). The right stuff: Do you need to sanitize your corpus when using latent semantic analysis? In W. G. Gray & C. D. Schunn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 708-713). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Link to PDF
Olney, A. M., Person, N. K., Louwerse, M. M., & Graesser, A. C. (2002). AutoTutor: A conversational tutoring environment. Proceedings of the ACL-02 Demonstration Session, 108-109. Link to PDF
Person, N. K., Erkel, M., Graesser, A. C., & Tutoring Research Group. (2002). AutoTutor passes the bystander Turing test. In M. Driscoll & T. C. Reeves (Eds.), Proceedings for E-Learning 2002: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education (pp. 778-782). Montreal, Canada: AACE.
Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., Bautista, L., Mathews, E. C., & Tutoring Research Group. (2001). Evaluating student learning gains in two versions of AutoTutor. In J. D. Moore, C. L. Redfield, & W. L. Johnson (Eds.), Artificial intelligence in education: AI-ED in the wired and wireless future (pp. 286-293). Amsterdam: IOS Press. Link to Book
Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., & Tutoring Research Group. (2002). Human or computer?: AutoTutor in a bystander Turing test. In S. A. Cerri, G. Gouarderes, & F. Paraguacu (Eds.), Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2002 (pp. 821-830). Berlin, Germany: Springer.
Person, N. K., Gholson, B., Craig, S., Hu, X., Stewart, C., & Graesser, A. C. (2001). HURAA: An interactive web-based agent that optimizes information retrieval in a multi-media environment. In C. Montgomerie & J. Viteli (Eds.), Proceedings for Ed-Media: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (pp. 1476–1481). Norfolk, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.
Ryder, J. M., Graesser, A. C., McNamara, J., Karnavat, A., & Pop, E. (2002). A dialog based intelligent tutoring system for practicing command reasoning skills. Paper presented at I/ITSEC. Link to PDF
Wiley, J., Goldman, S. R., & Graesser, A. C. (2002). Promoting critical inquiry from web sources. In W. G. Gray & C. D. Schunn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 23). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Link to PDF