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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.

This page last updated - January 1999.

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 www.cs.cmu.edu/~listen.

Personnel [Past members]

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Katherine Ayres	Adjunct Professor of English, Chatham College (Adjunct)
	Juliet Bey	Research Associate III	julietbey@gmail.com
	Albert Corbett	Associate Research Professor, HCII	corbett+@cmu.edu
	Octavio H Juarez-Espinosa	Scientific/Technological Specialist	ohjuarez412@gmail.com
	Jack Mostow	Research Professor	mostow@cs.cmu.edu
	Rollanda O'Connor	Associate Professor, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh
	M Ravishankar	Senior Systems Scientist, ISRI	rkm@cs.cmu.edu (Currently On Leave)
	Joseph Valeri	Lab Assistant	jmv@andrew.cmu.edu

Current Projects

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

Recent publications [View all 93 publications]

• 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
  Speech Technology for Language Learning, V. M. Holland, F. N. Fisher, ed., Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers, Lisse, The Netherlands, 2005.

• Evaluation purposes, excuses, and methods: Experience from a Reading Tutor that listens
  J. Mostow
  Interactive Literacy Education: Facilitating Literacy Environments Through Technology, C. K. Kinzer, L. Verhoeven, ed., Erlbaum Publishers, Mahway, NJ, 2005. [Abstract]

• Faster, better task choice in a reading tutor that listens
  G. Aist and J. Mostow
  Speech Technology for Language Learning, V. M. Holland, F. N. Fisher, ed., Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers, Lisse, The Netherlands, 2005.

• 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
  Conceptualizing Scale-Up Multidisciplinary Perspectives, B. Schneider, ed., 2005. [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]
  Download: pdf [83 KB] copyrighted

• 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. [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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• If I Have a Hammer: Computational Linguistics in a Reading Tutor that Listens
  J. Mostow
  42nd Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL-EACL 2004), July, 2004. [Abstract]