Network Investigator: Cristina Conati

Contact Information

• Associate Professor of Computer Science, (UBC)
• 1.778-998-9042 (voice)
• 1.604.822.5485 (fax)
• mailto:[email protected]
• http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~conati

GRAND Projects

• Digital Games for Learning and Training
• Evaluating Affective User Experience
• Developing Methods for Evaluation of Virtual Worlds
• Enhanced Communication in Simulation and Training

Biography

Research interests include artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, user-adaptive interfaces, intelligent tutoring systems, educational-games emotionally intelligent agents.

Conati's research has received awards from the International Conference on User Modeling (1997), the International Conference of AI in Education (1999), the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (2007) and the Journal of User Modeling and User Adapted Interaction (2002). She was Program Co-Chair for the Eleventh International Conference on User-Modeling (2007) and Conference Co-Chair for IUI 2009, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces). She will be Invited Speaker at the Twenty-first International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), which in this edition focuses on "The Interdisciplinary Reach of Artificial Intelligence"