Project LISTEN
A Reading Tutor that Listens
Last updated: 9/13/2009

Summary
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In the News 
Progress

Research Basis
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Photos
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People

People 
Current Faculty
Current Staff
Current Students
Distinguished Advisory Board
Previous LISTENers
Web Site Developers
Faculty and Staff Award Photos



    Current Faculty

 

Jack Mostow (Director) – Research Professor, Robotics, Language Technologies, Machine Learning, Human Computer Interaction, Program in Interdisciplinary Educational Research

Greg Aist – Visiting Faculty, Language Technologies Institute; Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Iowa State University

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Katherine Ayres – Adjunct Professor of English and Coordinator for Master of Arts in Children's and Adolescent Writing, Chatham College

Joe Beck – Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Al Corbett – Senior Research Scientist, Human-Computer Interaction Institute

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Nell Duke – Professor of Teacher Education and Educational Psychology and Co-director of the Literacy Achievement Research Center (LARC) at Michigan State University

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Margaret McKeown – Senior Scientist at Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) and Clinical Professor at School of Education, University of Pittsburgh

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Paula J. Schwanenflugel – Professor of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology, University of Georgia

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Christina Trotochaud – Elementary School Title One Teacher, Grand Ledge Public Schools

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    Current Staff
 

Juliet Bey – Research Associate

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Donna Gates – Language Technologist

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Octavio Juarez-Espinosa – Scientific/Technological Specialist

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Martin Kantorzyk – Software Quality Assurance Specialist

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Lynnetta Miller – Administrative Assistant 

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Joe Valeri - Materials Developer

Anders Weinstein – Research Programmer

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Current Students
 

Wei Chen – Language Technologies PhD student

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Weisi Duan – Language Technologies master’s student

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Minh Duong – Language Technologies master’s student

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Liu Liu – Language Technologies master’s student

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Morten Højfeldt Rasmussen – visiting PhD student, Aalborg University, Denmark

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Lucas Tan – Computer Science undergrad, class of 2012

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    Distinguished Advisory Board

Christopher Dede, Chair of Learning and Teaching and Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard Graduate School of Education

Louis Gomez, Professor of Learning Sciences and Computer Science, Northwestern University

Philip Gough, Barbara Pierce Bush Regents Professor in Liberal Arts, University of Texas

Brian Junker, Professor and Associate Head of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University

Mark Lepper, Professor and Chair of Psychology, Stanford University

Rollanda O'Connor - Professor, School of Education, University of California at Riverside

Richard Olson, Professor of Psychology, University of Colorado

Charles Perfetti, Professor and Chair of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh

Janet Schofield, Professor of Psychology and Senior Scientist at LRDC, University of Pittsburgh

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Recent and Previous LISTENers

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This Web site was redesigned and reimplemented in December 2002 with the help of Daniel Mulvihill, Ronolee Ciocco, and Alexis Dave.


Photos
 Xiaonan's last day003.JPGAugust 2008:  Liu, Wei, and Minh with Xiaonan.

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Peng, Joe, and Jack all shaking hands

November 2002: Co-advisors Joe Beck and Jack Mostow present Peng Jia with headgear to celebrate her completed Master's project in educational data mining. 

May 2002: Brian Tobin gets Project LISTEN's Golden Dice Award before leaving for grad school at Stanford. Brian analyzed data for many of the studies on the poster. 

11/2/01 Dr. Greg Aist receives Project LISTEN's Rocket Scientist Award before leaving for new job at NASA.

12/12/2000: Greg Aist defends PhD thesis on "Helping Children Learn Vocabulary during Computer-Assisted Oral Reading"

12/12/2000: Project LISTEN's first-ever Golden Headset Award, presented to Educational Research Field Coordinator Mary Beth Sklar.  Her successor, Susan Rossbach, received a similar award in July 2002.

2/22/01: Congratulations to Dr. Albert Corbett on winning the Allen Newell Medal for Research Excellence! 

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