I am a PhD student in the Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. I am very excited about learning and contributing to this field!

Here's my "elevator speech":
I am working on designing automatically generated summaries that can be used by instructors to monitor how well a group is functioning. For example, if a teacher is monitoring an on-line forum for a class where students post messages related to their group work, he can just look at this automatically generated summary that indicates which students or which groups of students are having trouble, which will save him from having to read all the messages on the board. So far, I have identified ten assessment categories that instructors look for in order to make judgments on how well a group is functioning. I am currently looking into 2 issues: whether these ten assessment categories are sufficient and how one could measure theses assessment categories automatically.

Research Interests: Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Collaborative Learning Process Analysis, Conversation Summarization

Advisor: Carolyn Rose