Grants

• Office of Naval Research. Demonstrating Affordable Behavior Modeling with CTAT through Machine Learning and Human Computer Interaction Techniques. Office of Naval Research. 275,000 Over three years.
• US Department of Education. "Fellowships in CS to support the learning sciences and security." Awarded ~800,000 to support 5 PhD students for 3 years. PI Matt Ward. Co-PI Heffernan, Agu and Mani.
• National Science Foundation: CAREER Grant. "Learning About Learning" ~ $900,000 accepted
• US Dept of Education: Institute of Education Sciences Using Web-Based Cognitive Assessment Systems for Predicting Student Performance on State Exams Requested $1.4 million over 4 years. (WPI Share=.5 Millon) Submitted April 18th, 2003. Pending. Notified we are receiving the grant- August 23rd.
• US Army STTR Grant. Topic The proposal requested $100,000 over 6 months for Phase one STTR. Phase Two will be worth ~$500,000. Submitted April 16th, 2003. Awarded
• Research Advancement Program Programming by Demonstration for Intelligent Tutoring Systems Requested $7,500. Submitted April 28th, 2003. Received
• Office of Naval Research Affordable Cognitive Modeling Authoring Tools using HCI Methods" Three year grant beginning in 2003. $203,304 over three years. Grant number N00014-0301-0221
• Office of Naval Research "Cognitive Tutor Tools for Advanced Instructional Strategies" April 1st -Sept, 30th 2002. $200,000. Co-pi's with Ken Koedinger and Vincent Aleven. Grant was used to build authoring tools to make the construction of cognitive tutors easier. I hired 4 individual researchers, including one PhD, and then supervised them to help produce the tools.
• National Academy of Education/ Spencer Foundation. $50,000. 2002-2004. "A comparison of student learning under multiple conditions: classroom instruction, one-on-one human tutoring, and different types of computer tutoring".

Publications: Reverse Order (PDFs are the best versions to view them in)

• What appears on this page are paper I wrote while I was still at CMU. For more recent papers, not stored at WPI, follow this link

• Koedinger, K. R., Aleven, V., & Heffernan, N. T. (2003) Toward a Rapid Development Environment for Cognitive Tutors. 12th Annual Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation. Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization.
   
• Koedinger, K. R., Aleven, V., & Heffernan, N. T. (2003) Toward a Rapid Development Environment for Cognitive Tutors. 11th International Conference Artificial Intelligence in Education. Syndey. Australia. pages 455-457. IOS Press. (pages for the poster) Published as a 4 page Poster and an Interactive Event in which the system will be used by many at the Conference July 23. See the paper of the same title above for a more detailed 9 page version.
   
• Heffernan, N. T. (2003) Web-Based Evaluations Showing both Cognitive and Motivational Benefits of the Ms. Lindquist Tutor 11th International Conference Artificial Intelligence in Education. Sydney. Australia. pages 115-122.
   
• Heffernan, N. T., & Koedinger, K. R.(2002) An Intelligent Tutoring System Incorporating a Model of an Experienced Human Tutor International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring System 2002. Biarritz, France. Pages 596-608.
   
• Heffernan, N. T., (2002) Web-Based Evaluation Showing both Motivational and Cognitive Benefits of the Ms. Lindquist Tutor SIGdial endorsed Workshop on "Empirical Methods for Tutorial Dialogue Systems" which was part of the International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring System 2002. Also appeared in a NSF-DFG sponsored workshop on Collaboration between German and American researchers in instructional technology. Tampa, Florida, May 5-7, 2002
   
• Heffernan, N. T., & Koedinger, K. R. (2001) Results from a Web-Based Tutor for Writing Algebra Expressions for Word-Problems . Sciences et Techniques Educatives (This French language journal has translated our paper into French. My translation of this Journal's title is "Educational Sciences and Technology.")
   
• Heffernan, N. T (2001)  Intelligent Tutoring Systems have Forgotten the Tutor: Adding a Cognitive Model of Human Tutors. Dissertation.  Computer Science Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. Technical Report CMU-CS-01-127.

 
• Heffernan, N. T, Koedinger, K. (2001)  The Design and Formative Analysis of a Dialog-Based Tutor Workshop at AI-in-Education. .doc .ps

 
• Heffernan, N. T., & Koedinger, K. R. (2000) Intelligent Tutoring Systems are Missing the Tutor: Building a More Strategic Dialog-Based Tutor. In C.P. Rose & R. Freedman (Eds.) Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Building Dialogue Systems for Tutorial Applications, (pp. 14- 19), Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. .doc

 
• Heffernan, N. T., & Koedinger, K. R. (2000) Building a 3rd generation ITS for symbolization: Adding a Tutorial Model with Multiple Tutorial Strategies. Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2000 Conference Workshop entitled "Learning Algebra with the computer, a transdisciplinary workshop". (pp. 12-22). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1839, Berlin: Springer. .ps (11 pages) , (PDF Best), (html available here)

 
• Heffernan, N. T. (2000). Adding a Cognitive Model of Human Tutor to an Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Abstract. Intelligent Tutoring System Conference- Young Researchers Track. .ps(2 pages)

 
• Heffernan. N. T. (1998) Intelligent Tutoring Systems have Forgotten the Tutor: Adding a Cognitive Model of Human Tutors. Ph.D. Thesis Proposal at the Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University. .ps(31 pages) (PDF Best)

 
• Heffernan, N. T. (1998) Intelligent Tutoring Systems have Forgotten the Tutor: Adding a Cognitive Model of Human Tutors. Abstract at Computer Human Interaction Conference Doctoral Consortium. .ps(2 pages) (PDF Best)

 
• Heffernan, N. T. & Koedinger, K. R. (1998). A developmental model for algebra symbolization: The results of a difficulty factors assessment. In Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 484-489). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.(6 pages) (postscript .ps), (word 98), (html-View Now!)  or (PDF Best- except seems to be only the first page..Urgh)

 
• Heffernan, N. T. & Koedinger, K.R. (1997). The composition effect in symbolizing: The role of symbol production vs. text comprehension. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 307-312). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. [Marr prize winner for best student paper.] (6 pages) (postscript .ps- Best), (word 98), (PDF Best), or  (View Now in HTML but with errors in the tables)