Helen Pain's Personal Page
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RESEARCH INTERESTS:
My current research interests include modelling social intelligence in pedagogical agents; affective and cognitive modelling of learners; managing educational dialogue; user-centred design and evaluation of interfaces, and empirical methodology. I work in the areas of Artificial Intelligence in Education, and User Modelling. 

Current Research Projects
EChoeS: Exploring e-Learning and Communication Tools for Improving Children's Language Usage in Social Interactions

Recent Research Projects
LeActiveMath Home page
Standup Home Page

Teaching
Human Communication 1
Adaptive Learning Environments 1


Publications (to be updated)

Research Collaborators (Edinburgh)
Timothy J Smith (EChoes)
Oliver Lemon (EChoeS)

Research Collaborators elsewhere
Paul Brna and Nicolas Van Labeke (University of Glasgow): (LeActiveMath )
Graeme Ritchie, Annalu Waller, Ruli Manurung and Rolf Black:  (Standup: Facilitating language play in non-speaking children through computer supported joke construction).
Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Judith Good, Wendy Keay-Bright, Annalu Waller: (EChoeS: Exploring e-Learning and Communication Tools for Improving Children's Language Usage in Social Interactions)

PhD students

Sean Hammond
Neil McIntyre

Helen Pain
Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems
Human Communication Research Centre,
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
helen at inf.ed.ac.uk.
10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK
Phone: +44 (0131) 650 8485