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Journal Papers

  1. Conati C. and Maclaren H. (under review). Empirically Building and Evaluating a Probabilistic Model of User Affect. Submitted to: User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI), Special Issue on "Affective Modeling and Adaptation".
Refereed Conference Publications

  1. Conati C. and Maclaren H.(2005). Data-driven Refinement of a Probabilistic Model of User Affect. UM 2005, 10th International Conference on User Modelling, Edinburgh, UK. July, 2005
  2. Amershi S., Arksey N., Carenini G., Conati C., Mackworth A., Maclaren H., Poole D. (2005) Designing CIspace: pedagogy and usability in a learning environment for AI. ITiCSE ’05, 10th Annual Conference on Information and Technology in Computer Science Education, Monte de Caparica, Portugal, June 27-29, 2005.
  3. Conati C. and Maclaren H. (2004). Evaluating A Probabilistic Model of Student Affect. In: Proceedings of ITS 2004, 7th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Maceio, Brazil.
Workshop papers
  1. Amershi, S., Conati, C., Maclaren, H. (2006). Using Feature Selection and Unsupervised Clustering to Identify Affective Expressions in Educational Games. In: Proceedings of the Workshop "Motivational and Affective Issues in ITS". In conjunction with ITS2006, 8th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Jhongli, Taiwan.
  2. Conati, C., Chabbal, R. and Maclaren, H. (2003). A Study on Using Biometric Sensors for Detecting User Emotions in Educational Games. In: Proceedings of the Workshop “Assessing and Adapting to UserAttitude and Affects: Why, When and How? “. In conjunction with UM ’03, 9th International Conference on User Modeling, Pittsburgh , PA , U.S.A.

PhD Thesis

My PhD was funded by BT Exact Technologies and so they own the intellectual rights to it. We were in the process of applying for 2 patents on the implementation that produced during my PhD work, which prevented me from producing any substantial publications until the very end.
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