I am conducting research on eight currently funded projects from four different funding agencies, including NSF, DARPA, ONR, and ARL, including 1,215K of grants for which I am PI and 5,278K for which I am co-PI.

• Education at the middle school, high school, and college level
  • Investigating the Social and Communicative Factors in Learning (NSF)
  • Group Cognition: Learning in Engineering Project Teams (NSF)
  • Networked Collaboration Modules for Integrating Mathematics and Engineering Education Using Intelligent Agents (NSF)
  • Dynamic Support for Virtual Math Teams (NSF)
  • ENGAGE: Learning to solve problems, Solving problems to learn (DARPA)
• Emergency response
  • Towards Optimization of Macrocognitive Processes: Automating Analysis of the Emergence of Leadership in Ad Hoc Teams (ONR)
• Health and Wellbeing
  • Conversational Dynamics in Online Support Groups (NSF)
  • Extracting Social Meaning from Code Switching in English and French with Selected African Languages: Swahili, Zulu, Lingala, and Ciluba (ARL)

Tool Projects

• Bazaar: Reconfigurable Multi-Party Dialogue Environment
• LightSIDE Text Mining Toolkit
• TagHelper Tools: Automating the Analysis of Conversational Data
• Tutalk: Infrastructure for authoring and experimenting with natural language dialogue in tutoring systems and learning research

Unfunded/Past Projects

• CycleTalk: Dialogue Technology for Supporting Simulation Based Learning
• Digital Bridges: On-Line Education fostering Partnerships for Research and Teaching