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Project LISTEN Head: Jack Mostow Contact: Jack Mostow (mostow@cs.cmu.edu) Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 For more information, see this lab's homepage.

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Lab Description

Project LISTEN, one of National Science Foundation's "Nifty Fifty" research projects, is developing an automated Reading Tutor that helps children learn to read. It uses speech recognition to listen to them read aloud, and responds with spoken and graphical feedback. Automated field studies evaluate the efficacy of alternative tutorial interventions by embedding experiments within the Reading Tutor, which has been used by hundreds of children at several elementary schools. See our official project page for more information and a complete personnel list.

Personnel [Past members]

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Katherine Ayres	Adjunct Professor of English, Chatham College (Adjunct)
	Juliet Bey	Research Associate III	jpbey@cs.cmu.edu
	Albert Corbett	Associate Research Professor, HCII	corbett+@cmu.edu
	Octavio H Juarez-Espinosa	Scientific/Technological Specialist	ohjuarez412@gmail.com
	Lynnetta J Miller	Administrative Coordinator	lynnetta@andrew.cmu.edu
	G. Ayorkor Mills-Tettey	PhD Student, RI	ayorkor@cmu.edu
	Jack Mostow	Research Professor	mostow@cs.cmu.edu
	Rollanda O'Connor	Associate Professor, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh
	Joseph Valeri	Lab Assistant	jmv@andrew.cmu.edu
	Anders Weinstein	Senior Research Programmer	andersw@cs.cmu.edu

Current Projects

Project LISTEN's Reading Tutor - Project LISTEN's Reading Tutor listens to children read aloud.

Recent publications [View all 94 publications]

• Does help help? Introducing the Bayesian Evaluation and Assessment methodology
  J.E. Beck, K. Chang, J. Mostow, and A. Corbett
  9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, June, 2008, pp. 383 - 394. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [79 KB] copyrighted

• 4-Month Evaluation of a Learner-controlled Reading Tutor that Listens
  J. Mostow, G. Aist, C. Huang, B. Junker, R. Kennedy, H. Lan, D.T. Latimer, IV, R. O'Connor, R. Tassone, B. Tobin, and A. Wierman
  The Path of Speech Technologies in Computer Assisted Language Learning: From Research Toward Practice, V. M. Holland, F. N. Fisher, ed., Routledge, New York, 2008, pp. 201 - 219. [Abstract]

• Experience from a Reading Tutor that listens: Evaluation purposes, excuses, and methods
  J. Mostow
  Interactive Literacy Education: Facilitating Literacy Environments Through Technology, C. K. Kinzer, L. Verhoeven, ed., Erlbaum Publishers, New York, 2008, pp. 117 - 148. [Abstract]

• Faster, better task choice in a reading tutor that listens
  G. Aist and J. Mostow
  The Path of Speech Technologies in Computer Assisted Language Learning: From Research Toward Practice, V. M. Holland, F. N. Fisher, ed., Routledge, New York, 2008, pp. 220 - 240. [Abstract]

• When the Rubber Meets the Road: Lessons from the In-School Adventures of an Automated Reading Tutor that Listens
  J. Mostow and J.E. Beck
  Scale-Up in Education, B. Schneider & S.-K. McDonald, ed., Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, MD, Vol. 2, 2007, pp. 183 - 200. [Abstract]

• Can automated questions scaffold children's reading comprehension?
  J.E. Beck, J. Mostow, and J. Bey
  Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, September, 2004. [Abstract]
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• Using knowledge tracing to measure student reading proficiencies
  J.E. Beck and J. Sison
  Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, September, 2004. [Abstract]
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• Lessons on using ITS data to answer educational research questions
  C. Heiner, J.E. Beck, and J. Mostow
  Proceedings of the ITS2004 Workshop on Analyzing Student-Tutor Interaction Logs to Improve Educational Outcomes, August, 2004, pp. 1 - 9. [Abstract]
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• Some useful design tactics for mining ITS data
  J. Mostow
  Proceedings of the ITS2004 Workshop on Analyzing Student-Tutor Interaction Logs to Improve Educational Outcomes, August, 2004, pp. 20 - 28. [Abstract]
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• Using response times to model student disengagement
  J.E. Beck
  Proceedings of the ITS2004 Workshop on Social and Emotional Intelligence in Learning Environments, August, 2004. [Abstract]
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