Applied Artificial Intelligence Research Group

Kaska Porayska-Pomsta is the dierector of the Applied Artificial Intelligene research group at the LKL.

Applying for a PhD

If you are interested in studying for a PhD under my supervision in the areas of Technology-Enhanced Learning, Artificial Intelligence in Education or Human-Computer Interaction, you are welcome to contact me directly: K.Porayska-Pomsta@ioe.ac.uk

Projects:

ECHOES 2: http://echoes2.org/

ECHOES: http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/esrcinfocentre/viewawardpage.aspx?awardnumber=RES-139-25-0322

LeActiveMath: http://www.leactivemath.org/overview.html

Selected Publications:

•Porayska-Pomsta, K., Bernardini S., Rajendran, T. (2009) Embodiment as a means for scaffolding young children's social skill acquisition. 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children.

• Porayska-Pomsta, K., Mavrikis, M., Pain, H. (2008), Student Affect from Tutor Perspective, Special Issue on “Affective Modeling and Adaptation”, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The International Journal of Personalization Research, Carberry, S., and de Rosis, F. (eds.), Springer Verlag.

• Morales, R. and Porayska-Pomsta, K. (2006) Diagnosis and Modelling of Learner Motivation for Adaptive E-Learning in Mathematics, Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Kerkrade, The Netherlands.

• Porayska-Pomsta, K. and Pain, H. (2004) Exploring Methodologies for Building Socially and Emotionally Intelligent Learning Environments, Proceedings of the Workshop on Social and Emotional Intelligence in Learning Environments (SEILE), ITS 2004, Maceio, Brazil.

• Porayska-Pomsta, K and Pain, H. (2004) Providing Cognitive and Affective Scaffolding through Teaching Strategies, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems.

• Porayska-Pomsta, K. and Mellish, C. (2004) Modelling Politeness in Natural Language Generation, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Generation.

2008

PhD

Mr Sam Wass, PhD in psychology and AI in education: Bloomsbury Colleges PhD studentship with Birckbeck Psychology, thesis title: "Using technology to detect and improve social deficits in children with Autism"

2007

MSc Students at School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

Ms Bianca Grizhar, thesis title: Investigating the Perception of Expressive Body Behaviour in Animated Agents

Ms Susanne Ball, thesis title: Investigating the relation between eye tracking, inferring emotional expressions, and Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) using animated agents

2006

Undergraduate Student,visiting student, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

Mr John-Paul Cunliffe