HapTutor-Lab: Promoting Complex Learning in STEM Domains through Intelligent Tutors and Haptic Feedback.
There has been a breakthrough in recent years concerning artificial talking head agents that can have a conversation with the human learning in natural language in the form of intelligent tutoring systems. Faculty members are leading a project to integrate two lines of research.
Drs. Bartholomew & McGraw and Mr. Charlesworth hypothesize that some of the struggles with data-driven decision-making instruction stem from the lack of context and real-world application for students (Merrill, Custer, Daugherty, Westrick, & Zeng, 2009). Further, they believe that placing students in positions requiring data-driven decision approaches may increase the effectiveness of these experiences and foster student interest in pursuing related education and careers.
Purdue Polytechnic’s School of Aviation and Transportation Technology announced a new “Degree in 3” initiative that would allow select professional flight students to start their degree early this summer and complete the traditional four-year program in three years.
The School of Construction Management Technology hosted a joint meeting of the Indiana Society of Healthcare Engineering with the Purdue chapter of the American Society for Healthcare Engineering in January.
FileTSAR, an all-in-one cybersecurity toolkit developed by Purdue Polytechnic researchers and their colleagues, is helping detectives dust for digital fingerprints.
Byung-Cheol “B.C.” Min, assistant professor of computer and information technology, was honored with the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award for his work related to human-robot interaction and multi-robot systems.
Two teams of Purdue students were honored for ground-breaking, socio-technical ideas to combat the criminal enterprise of human trafficking. They developed their solutions during Purdue Polytechnic’s “Design Innovation Challenge: Fight Human Trafficking in the Americas.”
Bedrich Benes, Hao Kang and corporate researchers developed a touch-screen method to fly unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, and take pictures with drone-mounted cameras.
Although computers are vital to everyday life, natural communication between humans and computers lags behind other technological advancements. Julia Rayz, associate professor of computer and information technology, is conducting research to make artificial intelligence (AI) smarter when it comes to humor.
Construction of new classroom and lab space for Purdue Polytechnic workforce development programs in downtown Muncie, Ind., is progressing at the new Madjax facility.
