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E-mail: kalina.yacef@sydney.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9351 6098

School of Information Technologies
Level 3 West, Building J12
University of Sydney
NSW, 2006, Australia

Web-site: http://sydney.edu.au/it/~kalina

Research Interests

Educational Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence in Education, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, User Modelling, Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Computer-Human Adapted Interaction, Computer Science Education.

About

Kalina Yacef's research lies in the fields of Artificial Intelligence in Education, Educational Data Mining and Human Computer Interaction. It aims to create smart, personalised computing systems to support learning and teaching. A particular focus of her research is to create ways to mine the rich stream of interaction data between learners and computer systems, and build interfaces to control this data and visualise results.

Her projects are funded by the Smart Services CRC and by the Australian Research Council.

She is the Editor of the Journal of Educational Data Mining ( JEDM). She serves as co-Program Chair of the international conference on Educational Data Mining ( EDM 2012) and the international conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2013).

Current Projects

Recent Publications

L. Pizzato, T. Rej, J. Akehurst, I. Koprinska, K. Yacef, and J. Kay. Recommending people to people: The nature of reciprocal recommenders with a case study in online dating. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research, pages 1-42:online first, 2013. [View Details]

R. Martinez, K. Yacef, Y. Dimitriadis, M. Edbauer, and J. Kay. MITClassroom and MITDashboard: supporting analysis of teacher attention in an orchestrated multi-tabletop classroom. In CSCL - Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 2013. [View Details]

VilaythongSouthavilay, K. Yacef, P. Reimann, and R. A. Calvo. Analysis of collaborative writing processes using revision maps and probabilistic topic models. 2013. [View Details]

R. Martinez, A. Clayphan, K. Yacef, J. Kay, and C. J. Ackad. Sensing, tracking and modelling with ignition - a framework for supporting classroom collaboration. In Educational Interfaces, Software, and Technology 2012: 3rd Workshop on UI Technologies and Educational Pedagogy, 2012. [View Details]

R. Martinez, J. Kay, K. Yacef, and B. Schwendimann. Unpacking traces of collaboration from multimodal data of collaborative concept mapping at a tabletop. In International Conference of the Learning Sciences: The Future of learning, ICLS 2012, page to appear, 2012. [View Details]

R. Martinez, K. Yacef, J. Kay, and B. Schwendimann. An interactive teacher’s dashboard for monitoring multiple groups in a multi-tabletop learning environment. In Proceedings of Intelligent Tutoring Systems, pages 482-492. Springer, 2012. [View Details]

L. A. Pizzato, J. Akehurst, C. Silvestrini, I. Koprinska, K. Yacef, and J. Kay. The effect of suspicious profiles on people recommenders. In J. Masthoff, B. Mobasher, M. C. Desmarais, and R. Nkambou, editors, 20th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2012), pages 225-236. Springer, 2012. [View Details]

R. M. Maldonado, J. Kay, and K. Yacef. Analysing knowledge generation and acquisition from individual and face-to-face collaborative concept mapping. In A. J. Canas, J. D. Novak, and J. Vanhear, editors, Concept Maps: Theory, Methodology, Technology Proc. of the Fifth Int. Conference on Concept Mapping, pages 45-52, 2012. [View Details]

R. Maldonado, Y. Dimitriadis, K. Y. J. Kay, , and M.-T. Edbauer. Orchestrating a multi-tabletop classroom: from activity design to enactment and reflection. In Proceedings of ITS'2012 Interactive tabletops and Surfaces, pages 119-128. ACM, 2012. [View Details]

J. Akehurst, I. Koprinska, K. Yacef, L. Pizzato, J. Kay, and T. Rej. Explicit and implicit user preferences in online dating. New Frontiers in Applied Data Mining, pages 15-27, 2012. [View Details]

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