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Ido Roll
Human Cumputer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon Univesrity
idoroll [at] gmail [dot] com
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~iroll
    I believe
…that helping people realize and satisfy their needs and ambitions is a key to reaching better lives for individuals and a more just society. This can be achieved by helping people become more curious, capable, and innovative learners.
My research focuses on promoting and understanding how people learn to learn, using intelligent tutoring systems.

    Education

PhD candidate at the Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
    2003-present
My research evolves around supporting students’ general learning skills using Intelligent Tutoring Systems. To that end I have been developing and evaluating The Help Tutor (which teaches help-seeking skills), The Self-Assessment Tutor (which supports self-assessment of students’ own capabilities), and CT (a teachable agent to help students extract meaningful features from novel content).
 
Student in the Program for Interdisciplinary Education Research (PIER), Carnegie Mellon University.
    2004-present
PIER  is an interdisciplinary pre-doctoral training program aimed at preparing a new generation of researchers who will be (a) grounded in cutting-edge theories and methodologies in cognitive and developmental psychology, statistics, human-computer interaction and instructional technology; (b) familiar with many of the fundamental problems facing education in America, and (c) committed to applying their skills and knowledge to solving those problems.   

B.Sc. in Math and Physics, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
Spring 1996

Graduation from the Talpiot Program, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
Fall, 1995
The Talpiot program qualifies top students for leadership positions in research and development in the academia, industry, and the military research units.

    Teaching Experience

Math Teacher, Community Day Middle School.    
Fall 2007
Co-designing a graduate level course on Educational Game Design with Dr. Vincent Aleven, Matthew Easterday, Amy Ogan and Eben Myers
Fall 2006 - Spring 2007
Teaching Assistant for Dr. Vincent Aleven, Cognitive Modeling and Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Carnegie Mellon University.   
Fall 2005
Teaching Assistant for Dr. Vincent Aleven, the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center Summer School.   
Summer 2005
Teaching Assistant for Dr. Richard Scheines, The History of Arab Israeli Relations,
Carnegie Mellon University.   
Spring 2005
AP Math teacher, the after school gifted children program of Lod, Israel.
2002-2003
GRE and GMAT Math teacher, GMAX Inc., Israel.
2002-2003

    Academic Service

Co-chair of the inter-Science of Learning Center Students and Post-docs Conference, Pittsburgh PA    
2008
Co-chair of the Workshop on Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning in Intelligent Tutoring Systems (in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, L.A., CA)   
2007
Student representative to the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center executive committee   
2007
A member of the inter-Science of Learning Centers graduate-students and post-docs management team   
2006-current
A member of the Student Leadership Team of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center
2006-2007
Coordination of the HCI PhD lunch seminar.
    2004-2005

    Selected Professional Experience

Human Factors Engineer, The Israeli Air Force and the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
     1995-1998; 1999-2003
A tutor and commander of the senior year in the Talpiot Program for R&D Leadership, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.   
1998-1999

    Social Justice Activism

Founder and co-president of Middle Peace – a joint Arab-Israeli student organization.   
2005-2007
Hebrew Teacher, School of Advanced Jewish Studies.    
Spring 2007
Executive Committee member of the Middle East Peace Forum of Pittsburgh.
2004-2006
Volunteering tutor in Youth Building Future social justice movement, Israel.
2000-2001
Part of the management team of Peace Generation Tel-Aviv Branch.
1998-2000
Active volunteer in different frameworks.
1991-current
 
    Grants

Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center Project Award. LABGEBRA: Deciphering Invention as Preparation for Future. Ido Roll, Vincent Aleven, Kenneth Koedinger, Daniel L. Schwartz. September 2007 – September 2009. $173,033

National Science Foundations, award #0751038, First Annual Inter-Science of Learning Center (iSLC) Student/Post-doc Summer Conference. Kenneth Koedinger, Julie Booth, Robert Hausmann, and Ido roll. September 2007. $96,499

Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center Project Award. Operation Application Rerification. Yvonne Kao, Ido Roll, Kenneth Koedinger. September 2006 – September 2007. $108,404

   Awards
  • Best Paper award, the International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems Jhongli, Taiwan, 2006
  • Finalist for Best Paper by Student First Author award, the International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Jhongli, Taiwan, 2006
  • Finalist for Best Paper by Student First Author award, User Modeling, Edinburgh, UK, 2005
  • Best Paper award, the International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems Maceio, Brazil, 2004
  • Excelling Officer, the Research and Development Department, the Israeli Air-Force, 2000

    Publications
Journal papers
  • Roll, I., Aleven, V., McLaren, B. M., & Koedinger, K. R. (to appear) Designing for Metacognition – Applying Cognitive Tutor Principles to Metacognitive Tutoring. To appear in Journal of Metacognition and Instruction,
  • Baker, R.S.J.d., Walonoski, J.A., Heffernan, N.T., Roll, I., Corbett, A.T., Koedinger, K.R. (to appear) Why Students Engage in "Gaming the System" Behavior in Interactive Learning Environments. To appear in Journal of Interactive Learning Research.
  • Aleven, V., McLaren, B.M., Roll, I., & Koedinger, K.R. (2006). Toward meta-cognitive tutoring: A model of help seeking with a Cognitive Tutor. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education(16), 101-30
Refereed conference full papers
  • Roll, I., Aleven, V., McLaren, B. M., & Koedinger, K. R. (2007). Can help seeking be tutored? Searching for the secret sauce of metacognitive tutoring. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, 203-10.
  • Kao, Y. S., Roll, I., & Koedinger, K. R. (2007). Sources of Difficulty in Multi-Step Geometry Area Problems. Cognitive Science Society Annual Meeting,
  • Roll, I., Aleven, V., McLaren, B.M., Ryu, E., Baker, R.S., & Koedinger, K.R. (2006) The Help Tutor: Does Metacognitive Feedback Improves Students' Help-Seeking Actions, Skills and Learning? in proceedings of 8th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 360-9. Berlin: Springer Verlag.
  • Baker, R.S.J.d., Corbett, A.T., Koedinger, K.R., & Roll, I. (2006) Generalizing Detection of Gaming the System Across a Tutoring Curriculum. in proceedings of 8th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 402-11. Berlin: Springer Verlag.
  • Baker, R.S.J.d., Corbett, A.T., Koedinger, K.R., Evenson, E., Roll, I., Wagner, A.Z., Naim, M., Raspat, J., Baker, D.J., & Beck, J. (2006) Adapting to When Students Game an Intelligent Tutoring System. in proceedings of 8th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 392-401. Berlin: Springer Verlag.
  • Roll, I., Baker, R.S., Aleven, V., McLaren, B.M., & Koedinger, K.R. (2005) Modeling Students’ Metacognitive Errors in Two Intelligent Tutoring Systems. in proceedings of User Modeling 2005, 379-88. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
  • Aleven, V., Roll, I., McLaren, B.M., Ryu, E.J., & Koedinger, K.R. (2005) An architecture to combine meta-cognitive and cognitive tutoring: Pilot testing the Help Tutor. in proceedings of 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2005), Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS press.
  • Baker, R.S., Roll, I., Corbett, A.T., & Koedinger, K.R. (2005) Do Performance Goals Lead Students to Game the System? in proceedings of 12th International Conference on Artificial Intellgence in Education, 57-64. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press.
  • Aleven, V., McLaren, B.M., Roll, I., & Koedinger, K.R. (2004) Toward tutoring help seeking - Applying cognitive modeling to meta-cognitive skills . in proceedings of 7th Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 227-39. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Refereed conference short papers and workshop presentations
  • Koedinger, K.R., Aleven, V., Baker, R.S.J.d., and Roll, Ido (2007). Toward Understanding When Tutoring Meta-cognition Enhances Domain Learning. in proceedings of the Workshop for Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learing in Intelligent Tutoring Systems. L.A., CA
  • Roll, I., Ryu, E., Sewall, J., Leber, B., McLaren, B.M., Aleven, V., & Koedinger, K.R. (2006) Towards Teaching Metacognition: Supporting Spontaneous Self-Assessment. in proceedings of 8th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 738-40. Berlin: Springer Verlag.
  • Baker, R.S., Corbett, A.T., Koedinger, K.R., & Roll, I. (2005) Detecting When Students Game The System, Across Tutor Subjects and Classroom Cohorts. in proceedings of User Modeling 2005, 220-4. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
  • Roll, I., Aleven, V., & Koedinger, K.R. (2004) Promoting Effective Help-Seeking Behavior through Declarative Instruction. in proceedings of 7th Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 857-9. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
  • Roll, I., Baker, R.S., Aleven, V., & Koedinger, K.R. (2004) What goals do students have when choosing the actins they perform? in proceedings of 6th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, 380-1. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum.
  • Roll, I., Baker, R.S., Aleven, V., & Koedinger, K.R. (2004) A Metacognitive ACT-R Model of Students’ Learning Strategies in Intelligent Tutoring Systems. in proceedings of 7th Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 854-6. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.