CFP

iTextbooks'2022: Intelligent Textbooks 2022

Durham University

Durham, UK, July 27, 2022

Conference website	https://intextbooks.science.uu.nl/workshop2022/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itextbooks2022
Submission deadline	June 27, 2022

Fourth Workshop on Intelligent Textbooks @ The 23d International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED’2022)

Textbooks have evolved over the last several decades in many aspects. Most textbooks can be accessed online, many of them freely. They often come with libraries of supplementary educational resources or online educational services built on top of them. As a result of these enrichments, new research challenges and opportunities emerge that call for the application of AIED methods to enhance digital textbooks and learners’ interaction with them. Therefore, we ask: How to facilitate access to textbooks and improve the reading process? What can be extracted from textbook content and data-mined from the logs of students interacting with it? This workshop seeks research contributions addressing these and other research questions related to the idea of intelligent textbooks. It aims at bringing together researchers working on different aspects of learning technologies to establish intelligent textbooks as a new, interdisciplinary research field.

Workshop website: https://intextbooks.science.uu.nl/workshop2022/

This workshop builds on the success of the three previous events:

Call for Demos

At this point, we are seeking to make our program more interactive. In addition to the regular paper presentations, we would like to attract demonstrations showcasing prototypes and products in the area of intelligent textbooks. If you would like to present a demo of your system, service or a framework, please, submit an implementation-oriented short paper that explains the aspects of your software that will be demonstrated, and how it will be demonstrated.

Deadline: June 27, 202

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Accepted papers will be presented orally and included in the workshop proceedings.

The workshop invites the following categories of submissions:

full papers (up to 12 pages);
short papers (up to 6 pages);
demo papers (up to 4 pages).

Submissions should follow the Springer format. See https://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 for details. Submission should be made in pdf format through the EasyChair system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itextbooks2022). Submissions will be reviewed by members of the workshop program committee.

List of Topics

The workshop themes include but are not limited to:

Modeling and representation of textbooks: examining the prerequisite and the semantic structure of textbooks to enhance their readability;
Analysis and mining of textbook usage logs: analyzing the patterns of learners’ use of textbooks to obtain insights on learning and the pedagogical value of textbook content;
Generation, manipulation, and presentation: exploring and testing different formats and forms of textbook content to find the most effective means of presenting different knowledge;
Assessment and personalization: developing methods that can generate assessments and enhance textbooks with adaptive navigation support to meet the needs of every learner using the textbook;
Knowledge visualization: augmenting textbooks with concept maps, open learner models and other knowledge-rich extensions
Collaborative technologies: building and deploying social components of digital textbooks that enable learners to interact with not only content but other learners;
Smart interactive content: extending online textbooks with various kinds of smart interactive content to improve learning, engagement, learner modeling, and personalization
Intelligent information retrieval and question-answering for digital textbooks
Content curation and enrichment: sorting through external resources on the web and finding the relevant resources to augment the textbook and provide additional information for learners.

Committees

Program Committee

Debshila Basu Mallick, OpenStax, Rice University
Paulo Carvalho, Carnegie Mellon University
Vinay Chaudhri
Paul Denny, University of Auckland
Brendan Flanagan, Kyoto University
Reva Freedman, Northern Illinois University
Roger Nkambou, Université du Québec à Montréal
Andrew Olney, University of Memphis
Benjamin Paaßen, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
Atsushi Shimada, Kyushu University
Khushboo Thaker, University of Pittsburgh
Ilaria Torre, University of Genoa
Noboru Matsuda, North Carolina State University
Jordan Barria-Pineda, University of Pittsburg

Organizing committee

Sergey Sosnovsky, Utrecht University
Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh
Andrew S. Lan, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Richard G. Baraniuk, Rice University

Publication

iTextbooks'2022 proceedings will be published by http://ceur-ws.org/

Venue

The workshop will be held in Durham, UK

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Sergey Sosnovsky <s.a.sosnovsky@uu.nl>