Co-sponsored by:

The International AI-ED Society (http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/ijaied/aiedsoc.html)
St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas

The 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AI-ED 2001) is part of an ongoing series of biennial international conferences designed to report top quality research in cognitive science and intelligent systems for educational computing applications. It provides opportunities for the cross-fertilization of information and ideas from researchers in the many fields that make up this interdisciplinary research area, including: computer science, psychology, linguistics, sociology, and philosophy.

The theme for 2001 is: "Advanced Models of Learning for the Wired and Wireless Future". Papers that enhance our understanding of the learning process, providing insight into the design of intelligent educational technologies that harness advanced telecommunications, mobile computing, distributed systems or agent technology will be particularly welcome.

You are invited to submit proposals for research papers, theme papers, posters, demonstrations, tutorials, workshops, and panels. All proposals will be peer reviewed in the usual fashion to select those for inclusion in the technical program.

SCOPE

The technical program focuses on research activities linking theory and technology from artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and computer science with educational theory and practice. Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

• Affect and emotion in learning environments
• Agent-oriented engineering of learning environments
• Animated or personified pedagogical agents
• Architectures
• Authoring systems and tutoring shells
• Case-based systems
• Cognitive development
• Cognitive diagnosis
• Collaboration and collaborative tools
• Computer-assisted language learning
• Conceptual change
• Dialog for instructional systems
• Educational games and edutainment
• Educational robotics
• Epistomology for learning environments
• Evaluation of instructional systems
• Human factors and interface design
• Intelligent multimedia and hypermedia systems
• Intelligent tutoring systems
• Knowledge and skill acquisition
• Knowledge representation for instruction
• Learning environments and microworlds
• Model-based reasoning
• Modeling pedagogical interactions
• Motivation
• Narrative intelligence in learning environments
• Natural language interfaces
• Networked learning and teaching systems
• Non-standard and innovative interfaces
• Principles and tools for instructional design
• Professional development for teachers
• Social and cultural aspects of learning
• Student modeling
• Higher-order thinking skills and metacognition
• Theories of teaching
• Virtual environments for learning
• Visual and graphical interfaces

SUBMISSIONS

• In addition to RESEARCH papers and posters in the above areas, SURVEY papers will also be accepted. A survey paper will offer a coherent and critical summary of achievements and outstanding problems in an area.
• To attract young researchers, there will be a Young Researcher's track, focussed on work in progress being carried out by graduate students and other young researchers. Submissions will receive constructive review and feedback.
• Proposals for Posters and Demonstrations are encouraged. Poster and demonstration presenters will have an opportunity to describe and show their work and interact with conference attendees.
• Proposals are invited for Tutorials and Workshops to enhance the skills and broaden the perspective of the attendees and forge new collaborative relationships among them. Workshops should provide participants the opportunity to meet and discuss selected technical topics in an informal atmosphere which encourages the active exchange of ideas and experiences among researchers and practitioners.
• Proposals for Panels on relevant topics and issues are welcome.
• Exhibits are expected to be an integral part of the AI-ED 2001 conference. Companies or institutions offering to exhibit AI-ED products are invited.

AI-ED 2001 DEADLINES

Submissions due: December 4, 2000
Authors notified: February 5, 2001
Camera Ready Copy due: March 9, 2001

CONFERENCE OFFICIALS

Conference Chair: W. Lewis Johnson, USC/Information Sciences Institute, California, USA
Program Chair: Johanna D. Moore, Human Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Organization Chair: Carol Redfield, St. Mary's University, USA
Tutorials & Workshops Chair: Dan Suthers, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Young Researchers Track Chair: Esma Aïmeur, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada
Demonstration Chair: Tom Murray, Hampshire College, USA
Publicity Chair: Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Web Site: Valerie Shute, Knowledge Planet, USA

Program Committee Members

• Shaaron Ainsworth, University of Nottingham, UK
• Vincent Aleven, Carnegie Mellon Univeristy, USA
• Paul Brna, University of Leeds, UK
• Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Richard Cox, University of Sussex, UK
• Sharon Derry, University of Wisconsin, USA
• Arthur Graesser, University of Memphis, USA
• W. Lewis Johnson, USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA
• Susanne Lajoie, McGill University, Canada
• Chee Kit Looi, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Kristine Lund, Université de Lyon 2, France
• Gordon McCalla, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
• Jean McKendree, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, Japan
• Tom Murray, Hampshire College, USA
• Helen Pain, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Rolf Ploetzner, University of Freiburg, Germany
• Carol Redfield, St Mary's University, USA
• Valerie Shute, Knowledge Planet, USA
• Daniel D. Suthers, University of Hawai'i, USA
• Peter Wiemer-Hastings, University of Edinburgh, UK

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All submissions should describe original and unpublished work. Research papers should describe results of system development and/or empirical or theoretical analysis. A small number of Survey papers and Theme papers will be accepted that synthesize and examine broad issues in the field. All accepted papers will be included in the AI-ED 2001 published proceedings and will be candidates for Best Paper Awards. Authors of award papers will be invited to submit their paper for publication in the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (IJAIED) (http://www.cbl.leeds.ac.uk/ijaied/home), the official journal of the International AI-ED Society.

Submission format: Submissions should be no longer than 8 pages, including all tables, figures, and references but excluding the cover page. Fonts should be at no smaller than 10 point. Margins should be at least 1 inch all around.

The cover page should include:

• the title of the paper with an abstract of no more than 500 words;
• keywords giving a clear indication of topic and subtopic;
• author names with affiliations, addresses, and phone numbers;
• the E-mail address of the principal author.

Financial support: For people from countries with little or no financial support for travel, and for Ph.D. students, some amount of financial support will be available. Contact the Organization Chair for details.

POSTERS

Authors are encouraged to submit reporrts on work in progress to the poster sessions, which provide an informal forum for introducing work in its early stages. Poster sessions enable researchers to discuss their latest results in order to gain feedback and to establish contact with similar projects. Poster sessions do not involve a formal presentation but papers are included in the proceedings as short papers.

Submissions: Poster proposals should include an approximately 3-page written description of the planned poster and should emphasize the problem; what was done; and why the work is important. The cover page should include the title of the poster with presenter names, affiliations, complete addresses, phone numbers, and E-mail address of the principal presenter.

TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS

The AI-ED Program Committee invites proposals for Tutorials and Workshops to enhance the skills and broaden the perspective of the attendees and forge new collaborative relationship among them. Tutorials/Workshops are a half day or a full day in length. Attendees will be required to register to the main AI-ED conference.

Tutorials should be designed to introduce a new framework for supporting human learning or to enable participants to use advanced information technologies for education such as AI, collaborative technologies, multimedia, hypermedia, networks, virtual reality or multi-lingual language processing. Tutorials should take a broad perspective on the topic, and should not be a sales pitch for a single body of work. Proposals should explicitly identify what participants will be able to do or know as a result of the tutorial, and describe any supporting materials to be provided to participants.

Workshops should provide participants the opportunity to meet and discuss selected technical topics in an informal atmosphere which encourages the active exchange of ideas and experiences among researchers and practitioners. Preference will be given to proposals for activities that can only be undertaken in a workshop format: workshops consisting solely of paper presentations are discouraged. For example, workshops might focus on in-depth analyses of sample data or exemplary designs, present alternate views on a particular issue that is of concern to AI&ED researchers and practitioners and attempt to resolve the issue, or identify priorities for new directions of research and initiate the appropriate collaborations. Ample time must also be allotted for general discussion. Proposals that include activities beyond the workshop itself are encouraged.

Proposals should contain:

1. A cover page including
   1. Session title
   2. Name, affiliation, address, e-mail address for each member of the organizing committee
   3. Identification of the primary contact person
   4. The proposed length; a half day or a full day
2. A one page description of the objectives to be addressed.
3. The intended audience (experience level and prerequisites; include list of names of potential attendees if you have a particular community in mind) and a description of review and selection process for participation.
4. Format of the session, and how this format will address the objectives. This may include preliminary and/or follow-up activities planned, materials to be provided to participants, etc. as applicable.
5. A call for participation, written as it would be publicly distributed
6. A description of the proposer/instructors' qualifications related to the topics

Proposers are encouraged to contact the tutorial and workshop chair in advance to discuss their ideas (email preferred).

Daniel D. Suthers
Information and Computer Sciences
University of Hawai'i at Manoa,
Honolulu, HI 96822
HTTP://lilt.ics.hawaii.edu
Email: suthers@hawaii.edu
Voice: (808) 956-3890
Fax: (808) 956-3548

YOUNG RESEARCHERS TRACK

In conjunction with AIED 2001 a special "Short Papers" track is being organized for "Young Researchers" (Ph.D. students who have not received their Ph.D. by the date of the conference).

Our goals are to attract as many young researchers as possible to be active participants in the conference, and to link young researchers with their senior colleagues. In particular we want to encourage presentations of work-in-progress. For those who are interested we will provide an e-mail link to a senior researcher in order to assist in the preparation of the short paper/presentation.

Those interested in participating in this program should prepare a short abstract (less than two pages). These abstracts will be refereed and published in the conference proceedings.

Separate sessions will be scheduled for these presentations. Each presenter will be allowed 15 minutes; 10 minutes for the presentation and 5 minutes for discussion. All presentations must be in English.

A reduced registration fee is offered to participants in these sessions upon request and with appropriate credentials.

Deadlines:

Short paper submission: 4 December 2000
Notification by: 26 January 2001
Final paper due: 1 March, 2001

For additional information and to submit a short paper to this session please contact:

Chair: Esma Aïmeur, University of Montreal, Canada (aimeur@iro.umontreal.ca)

CONTACT INFORMATION

The web site for AI-ED 2001 is: http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/aied2001

For Scientific program and PC matters, Johanna D. Moore: Johanna.Moore@ed.ac.uk

For Workshops and Tutorials, Daniel Suthers: suthers@hawaii.edu

For Demonstrations, Tom Murray: tmurray@cs.umass.edu

For organisational matters, Carol Redfield: credfield@STMARYTX.EDU

For other issues, W. Lewis Johnson: johnson@isi.edu