EDM '19 WoRkshop on EDM & Games: Leveling Up Engaged Learning with Data-Rich Analytics

Paper submission deadline extended to April 29, 2019.

The EDM '19 Workshop on EDM & Games: Leveling Up Engaged Learning with Data-Rich Analytics will be co-located with the 12th International Conference on Educational Data Mining on July 2, 2019 in Montréal, Canada.

Recent advances in educational data mining (EDM) are creating new opportunities for game-based learning. Games have long been recognized for their capacity to engage players in immersive virtual worlds and complex problem scenarios. Now, there is growing evidence that games are also an effective medium for enhancing learning. As learners interact with educational games, rich streams of in-game behavior data are generated that can be modeled and analyzed using EDM techniques. Increasingly, these data streams also include multimodal sensor data, such as eye tracking, facial expression, posture, and biometric data. The increasing availability of trace-level data from games has created new opportunities for investigating methods to analyze and model learner behavior in these environments.

In light of these advances, several questions have begun to emerge at the intersection of EDM and games:

Which EDM techniques are best suited for addressing the distinctive challenges posed by game-based learning, such as open-ended tasks, unexpected learner behaviors, and balancing learning and engagement effectively?
How can we leverage EDM techniques to inform evidence-based design principles for game-based learning?
What are the unique contributions that EDM can provide toward enhancing our understanding of the moment-to-moment signatures of engaged learning?

To explore these questions, the workshop will bring together researchers interested in the intersection of EDM and games to better understand student learning and engagement using data-rich analytics. We are keenly interested in research that leverages novel data mining techniques and methodologies to enhance our understanding of student learning and engagement, as well as enable enriched learning experiences that are both effective and engaging.

We welcome papers on a broad range of topics that explore the nexus of EDM and games across different educational settings (e.g., schools, museums, after-school programs, training, healthcare), student populations (e.g., pre-school, primary, secondary, post-secondary, adult), and educational domains (e.g., science, mathematics, history, art, defense, professional training).

Topics of Interests

Within the context of EDM and games, general topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Game-based assessment
Models of learner engagement
Affect recognition and understanding
Multimodal analytics
Learner modeling
Plan, activity, and intent recognition
Tutorial planning
NLP in game-based learning
Data-driven content generation
Novel methods and techniques
Modeling preparation for future learning
Data-driven game design
Game-based collaborative learning
Modeling metacognition and SRL
Assessment in team-based games

Organizers

Jonathan Rowe, North Carolina State University

Bradford Mott, North Carolina State University

Luc Paquette, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Seung Lee, North Carolina State University

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: ~~April 22, 2019~~ April 29, 2019
Notification of Acceptance: ~~May 22, 2019~~
Camera Ready Deadline: ~~June 13, 2019~~
EDM & Games Workshop: ~~July 2, 2019~~

Submissions

We invite paper submissions describing mature and/or ongoing relevant research (6-10 pages).

Top reviewed papers will be accepted for oral presentation. Additional papers may be accepted for poster presentation. All accepted papers will be published in the joint proceedings of the EDM 2019 workshops through CEUR (http://ceur-ws.org).

Papers should be formatted according to the EDM template:

Please submit all papers (PDF) via EasyChair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=edmgames19