Michael A. Ringenberg

Position:

Graduate Student in the Intelligent Systems Program in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh.

Graduate Student Researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, Learning Research and Development Center.

PSLC Graduate Student.

Projects:

• TuTalk
• Scaffolding Problem Solving with Annotated, Worked-Out Examples to Promote Deep Learning.
• Why2000
• ATLAS Project.
• Andes.
• CIRCLE Webmaster and Mailing list administrator.

Papers:

• Jordan, Pamela; Brian Hall; Michael Ringenberg; Y. Cui; and Carolyn P. Rosé (2007). "Tools for Authoring a Dialogue Agent that Participates in Learning Studies." In Artificial Intelligence in Education: 13th International Conference (AIED 2007). Marina Del Rey, CA.
• Ringenberg, Michael A. (2007) "A Student Model Based on Item Response Theory for TuTalk, a Tutorial Dialogue Agent." Paper presented at the Thirteenth International Conference of Artificial Intelligence in Education. Marina Del Rey, CA.
• Ringenberg, Michael and Kurt VanLehn (2008). "Does Solving Ill-Defined Physics Problems Elicit More Learning than Conventional Problem Solving?" Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (Young Researcher's Track). Montreal.
• Ringenberg, Michael A. and Kurt VanLehn (2006). Scaffolding Problem Solving with Annotated, Worked-Out Examples to Promote Deep Learning. Paper presented at the Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Eighth International Conference (ITS 2006), Taiwan. Winner of Best Paper First Authored by a Student Award.
• Jordan, Pamela; Michael Ringenberg; and Brian Hall (2006). Rapidly Developing Dialogue Systems that Support Learning Studies. Workshop paper presented at the Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Eighth International Conference (ITS 2006), Taiwan.
• VanLehn, Kurt; Pamela Jordan; Carolyn Rosé Dumisizwe Bhembe; Michael Bottner; Andy Gaydos; Maxim Makatchev; Umarani Pappuswamy; Michael Ringenberg; Antonio Roque; Stephanie Siler; and Ramesh Srivastava. "The Architecture of Why2-Atlas: A Coach for Qualitative Physics Essay Writing." In Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2002, 6th International Conference (Biarritz, France and San Sebastian, Spain 2002).
• Rosé, Carolyn; Pamela Jordan; Michael Ringenberg; Stephanie Siler; Kurt VanLehn; and Anders Weinstein. "Interactive Conceptual Tutoring in Atlas-Andes." AI in Education 2001 Conference.
• Freedman, Reva; Carolyn Penstein Rosé; Michael A. Ringenberg and Kurt VanLehn. (2000). "ITS Tools for Natural Language Dialogue: A Domain-Independent Parser and Planner." In Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Fifth International Conference (ITS 2000), Montreal. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
• Rosé, Carolyn; Reva Freedman; Pamela Jordan; Michael Ringenberg; Antonio Roque; Kay Schulze; Robert Shelby; Stephanie Siler; Donald Treacy; Kurt VanLehn; Anders Weinstein; and Mary Wintersgill. (2000). "Conceptual Tutoring in Atlas-Andes." In Building Dialogue Systems for Tutorial Applications: Papers from the 2000 Fall Symposium (North Falmouth, MA), demo session. AAAI Technical Report FS-00-01.
• VanLehn, Kurt; Reva Freedman; Pamela Jordan; Charles Murray; Remus Osan; Michael Ringenberg; Carolyn Rosé; Kay Schulze; Robert Shelby; Donald Treacy; Anders Weinstein; and Mary Wintersgill. (2000). "Fading and Deepening: The Next Steps for Andes and Other Model-Tracing Tutors." In Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Fifth International Conference (ITS 2000), Montreal. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

Links:

• Books in my office.
• Student Webpage

Contact Information:

• Office:
  LRDC #743
  3939 O'Hara St.
  University of Pittsburgh
  Pittsburgh, PA 15260-5179
• Phone: (412) 624-3353
• Fax: (412) 624-9368
• E-Mail:
  mringenb+@pitt.edu