David Adamson

• Research Programmer,
  CMU Language Technologies Institute
• Lead Developer, Ludo Mechanica. Co-Founder, LightSIDE Labs.
• Email: dadamson(at)cs(dot)cmu(dot)edu
• Office: GHC 5507
• Advisor: Carolyn P. Rosé
• Resume: Resume!

Research

Broadly, I'm interested in the applications of language technologies in the classroom. Currently, I'm developing conversational facilitator-agents for collaborative learning and teacher training, building on our Bazaar agent architecture.

Selected Publications

• Adamson, D., Ashe, C., Jang, H., Yaron, D., & Rosé, C. Intensification of Group Knowledge Exchange with Academically Productive Talk Agents. (2013). Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Madison Wisconsin, July 2013.
• Clarke, S., Chen, G., Stainton, C., Katz, S., Greeno, J.G., Resnick, L.B., Howley, I., Adamson, D. and Rosé, C.P. (2013) The Impact of CSCL Beyond the Online Environment. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Madison Wisconsin, July 2013.
• Adamson, D. & Rosé, C. Coordinating Multi-dimensional Support in Collaborative Conversational Agents Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 2012. Slides
• Dyke, G., Adamson, D., Howley, I., Rosé, C. Towards Academically Productive Talk Supported by Conversational Agents. Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 2012.
• Howley, I., Adamson, D., Dyke, G., Mayfield, E., Beuth, J. & Rosé, C. Group Composition and Intelligent Dialogue Tutors for Impacting Students' Academic Self-efficacy. Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 2012.
• Dyke, G. Adamson, D., Howley, I., Rosé, C. Enhancing Scientific Reasoning and Explanation Skills with Conversational Agents (submitted)
• Gianfortoni, P., Adamson, D., Rosé, C.Modeling of stylistic variation in social media with stretchy patterns
• more (Google Scholar)

Software Development

I'm co-founder and technical director of LightSIDE Labs and the lead developer for Ludo Mechanica's DropKicker.

Recently I've designed SMS-powered pervasive games for Obscure Games Pittsburgh and Brightwork Labs. I maintain Samosa an open-source messaging framework.

Some old pet projects:

• Mandelvox, exploring paths and chords in the Mandelbrot Set
• Loopback, a network multiplayer Pong-type game on a circular track. Also exists as an Android application!
• a Subnet Calculator and visualizer (with a Hilbert mapping of the address space!)
• DragonDrop, a lightweight pop-up file browser for Mac OS X

Personal

I enjoy meadmaking, contra dancing, couch surfing, game development, and cooking.