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Cecily Heiner
Research Intern

No longer a member of RI.

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My research interests focus primarily on speech and education. I am especially interested in ways that speech technology can be used to facilitate and accelerate education. I am also interested in "edutatainment", educational entertainment, or software which is as much fun as a video game but as educational as reading a textbook. Currently, I am studying which help and interventions are most effective in a reading tutor for young children.

education, entertainment robotics, human-computer interaction, and speech generation and recognition

• Project LISTEN - Literacy/Language/Learning Innovation/Instruction that Speech Technology ENables

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

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• 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]
  Download: pdf [306 KB] copyrighted

• Improving the Help Selection Policy in a Reading Tutor that Listens
  C. Heiner, J.E. Beck, and J. Mostow
  Proceedings of the InSTIL/ICALL Symposium on NLP and Speech Technologies in Advanced Language Learning Systems, June, 2004, pp. 195 - 198. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [287 KB] copyrighted

• Which Help Helps? Effects of Various Types of Help on Word Learning in an Automated Reading Tutor that Listens
  J. Mostow, J.E. Beck, and C. Heiner
  Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, June, 2004. [Abstract]