• Introduction

    The 7th CyberPsychology and Behavioral Seminar is hosted by the Chinese Psychological Society, Youth Psychology, and Behavior Lab of Education Ministry and the School of Psychology of Central China Normal University. The seminar aims at providing a platform for researchers from psychology, educational technology or information science backgrounds to share their ideas and resources and help improve related research and implication. The focus of this year is "models and analysis of self-improving adaptive instructional systems.

    • Over ten experts will give keynote speeches on most advanced adaptive instructional systems (AIS)
    • One panel discussions about AIS * Lessons learned  * Stat of the Art, * Future outlook * Benefit and potential issues, * Ethics in AI in Education.
    • Two Workshops: 1) Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT), 2) Conversation-Based Intelligent Tutoring Systems.

  • Steve Ritter

    Steven Ritter, Founder and Chief Scientist at Carnegie Learning, has been developing and evaluating educational systems for over 20 years. He earned his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University and was instrumental in the development and evaluation of Cognitive Tutors for mathematics. Through leadership of the research department, Dr. Ritter has led many improvements to the use of adaptive learning systems and math education in real-world settings. He is the author of numerous papers on the design, architecture and evaluation of Intelligent Tutoring Systems. He is lead author of an evaluation judged by the US Department of Education’s What Works Clearinghouse as fully meeting their standards and is lead author of a "Best Paper" at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining.

    Art GraesserNoboru Matsuda