Publications

Journal Articles

Birchfield, D., Thornburg, H., Megowan-Romanowicz, C., Hatton, S., Mechtley, B., Dolgov, I., Burleson, W. (2008) "Embodiment, Multimodality, and Composition: Convergent Themes Across HCI and Education for Mixed-Reality Learning Environments," special issue on "Interactive Play and Learning for Children" in Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, A Journal of the Hindawi Publishing Corporation, October 2008. 

Kapoor, A., Burleson, W. and Picard, R. (2007) “Automatic Prediction of Frustration” International Journal of Human Computer Studies, Vol. 65, Issue 8, pages 724-736, August, 2007.

Burleson, W., and Picard, R. (2007) “Evidence for Gender Specific Approaches to the Development of Emotionally Intelligent Learning Companions” IEEE Intelligent Systems Journal, July 2007.  

Burleson, W. and Picard, R. W. (2006), “Affective Learning Companions,” Special Issue on Pedagogical Agents, Educational Technology, February 2006.

Burleson, W. (2005), “Opportunities for Creativity, Motivation, and Self-Actualization in Learning Systems,” Special Issue IJHCS Creativity and Computational Support, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, January 2005.

Conference Full Papers

VanLehn, K., Burleson, W., Chavez Echeangary, H., Christopherson, R., Gonzales Sanchez J., HidalgoPontet, Y., Muldner, K., Zhang, L., (2011) The Affective Meta-Tutoring Project: How to MotivateStudents to Use Effective Meta-Cognitive Strategies, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computers in Education. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education,November 2011.

VanLehn, K., Burleson, W., Chavez Echeangary, H., Christopherson, R., Gonzales Sanchez J., Hidalgo Pontet, Y., Muldner, K., Zhang, L. (2011) The Level Up Procedure: How to Measure Learning Gains Without Pre- and Post-testing, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computers in Education. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education, November 2011.

Tripathi, P. and Burleson, W. (2012) Predicting Creativity in the Wild:  Experience Sample and Sociometric Modeling of Teams, CSCW2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Seattle, WA, February 2012.

Lahey, B., Girouard, A., Burleson, W., Vertegaal, R. (2011) PaperPhone: Understanding the Use of Bend Gestures in Mobile Devices with Flexible Electronic Paper Displays, CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vancouver, Canada, May, 2011.

Arroyo, I., Woolf, B., Cooper, D., Burleson, W., Muldner, K. (2011). The Impact of Animated Pedagogical Agents on Girls' and Boys' Emotions, Attitudes, Behaviors and Learning. International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies 2011. 

Atkinson, R., Burleson, W., Chavez-Echeagaray, M.E., Gonzalez-Sanchez, J. (2011)."ABE: An Agent-Based Software Architecture for a Multimodal Emotion Recognition Framework," In Proceedings of Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (June 2011). 

Cooper, D., Muldner, K., Arroyo, I., Woolf, B.P., Burleson, W., Dolan, R. (2010) Ranking Feature Sets for Emotion Models used in Classroom Based Intelligent Tutoring Systems. International Conference on User Modeling and Adaptive Presentation, June 2010.

Muldner, K., Burleson, B., VanLehn, K. (2010) “Yes!”: Using Tutor and Sensor Data to Predict Moments of Delight during Instructional Activities. International Conference on User Modeling and Adaptive Presentation, June 2010. 

Woolf, B.P., Arroyo, I., Muldner, K., Burleson, W., Cooper, D., Dolan, R., Christopherson, R.M. (2010) The Effect of Motivational Learning Companions on Low-Achieving Students and Students with Learning Disabilities. International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, June 2010.

Muldner, K., Burleson, B., van de Sande, B., VanLehn, K. (2010) An Analysis of Gaming Behaviors in an Intelligent Tutoring System. International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, June 2010.

Freed, N., Burleson, W., Raffle, H., Ballagas, T., Newman, N.  (2010). User Interfaces for Tangible Characters: Children Connecting Remotely through Toy Perspectives. International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, June 2010. 

Arroyo, I., Cooper, D., Burleson, W., Woolf, B., Muldner, K., Christopherson, R. (2009) Emotion sensors go to school, Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Brighton, England, July 2009. Overall Best Paper Award.

Woolf, B., Dragon, T., Arroyo, I., Cooper, D., Burleson, W., Muldner, K., (2009) Recognizing and Responding to Student Affect, Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Brighton, England, July 2009.

Muldner, K., Christopherson, R., Atkinson, R., and Burleson, W. (2009) Investigating the Utility of Eye-tracking Information on Affect and Reasoning for User Modeling, International Conference on User Modeling and Adaptive Presentation, Trento, Italy, June 2009.

Cooper, D., Arroyo, I., Woolf, B., Muldner, K., Burleson, W., and Christopherson, R. (2009), Sensors Model Student Self Concept in the Classroom, International Conference on User Modeling and Adaptive Presentation, Trento, Italy, June 2009.

Overholt, D.; Hansen, A.; Jensen, C.; Burleson, W. (2009) “Pendaphonics: A Tangible Pendulum-Based Sonic Interaction Experience,” Proceedings of the Conference on Tangible Embedded Interaction 2009, Cambridge, England, February 2009.

Overholt, D.; Hansen, A.; Jensen, C.; Burleson, W. (2009) Musical Applications and Design Techniques for the Gametrack Tethered Spatial Position Controller, Proceedings of the Conference on Tangible Embedded Interaction 2009, Cambridge, England, February 2009.

Lahey, B., Burleson, W., Jensen, C. N., Freed, N., and Lu, P. (2008) “Integrating video games and robotic play in physical environments”; Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Video Games (Los Angeles, California, August 09 - 10, 2008). Sandbox '08. ACM, New York, NY, 107-114. August 2008. 

Dragon, T., Arroyo, I., Woolf, B., Burleson, W., Kaliouby, R., Eydgahi, H. (2008)  “Viewing Student Affect and Learning through Classroom Observation and Physical Sensors”; Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Eds. Woolf, B. et. al; Springer Berlin / Heidelberg Vol. 5091/2008. p. 29-39.  June 2008.  

Burkhardt, F., Ajmera, J., Englert, R., Stegmann, J., & Burleson, W. (2006). Detecting Anger In Automated Voice Portal Dialogs. Proceedings of The Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Interspeech 2006 — ICSLP, Pittsburg, PA, September, 2006. 

 

Conference Short Papers, Posters, Workshop Papers, Demos, Reports 

VanLehn, K., Burleson, W., Chavez Echeangary, H., Christopherson, R., Gonzales Sanchez J., HidalgoPontet, Y., Muldner, K., Zhang, L. (2011) The Level Up Procedure: How to Measure Learning GainsWithout Pre- and Post-testing, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computers inEducation. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education, November 2011.

VanLehn, K., Burleson, W., Chavez Echeangary, H., Christopherson, R., Gonzales Sanchez J., Hidalgo Pontet, Y., Muldner, K., Zhang, L., (2011) The Affective Meta-Tutoring Project: How to Motivate Students to Use Effective Meta-Cognitive Strategies, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computers in Education. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education, November 2011. 

Arroyo, I., Woolf, B., Royer, J., Tai, M., Muldner, K., Burleson, W., Cooper, D. (2010) Gender Matters: The Impact of Animated Agents on Students’ Affect, Behavior and Learning. Technical report UM-CS-2010-020. Computer Science Department, UMASS Amherst August 2010.

Woolf, B., Shute, V., VanLehn, K., Burleson, W., King, J.L., Suthers, D., Bredeweg, B., Luckin, R., Baker, R., Tonkin, E., (2010) A Roadmap for Educational Technology, Computing Community Consortium, Computer Research Association, commissioned by NSF, May 2010. 

Burleson, W. and Jensen, C. J. (2010) Slow computing gifts, Tangible and Embedded Interaction 2010, Workshop,  Proceedings of the Conference on Tangible Embedded Interaction 2010, Cambridge, MA, January 2010.

Burleson, W., Muldner, K., Gonzalez Sanchez, J., Chavez Echeagaray, M., Lu, P., Freed, N. 2009. Affective computing: comparing computer-face-based emotion recognition with human emotion perception. In Companion of the 40th Conference of research and development by Tecnologico de Monterrey (Monterrey, N.L., Mexico, January 20 – 22, 2010). Monterrey, N.L. Mexico, 594. ISBN: 978-607-501-0007.

VanLehn, K., Burleson, W., Hand, P., Muldner, K., Gonzalez Sanchez, J., Chavez Echeagaray, M., Christopherson, R. 2009. Affective Meta Tutoring System. In Companion of the 40th Conference of research and development by Tecnologico de Monterrey (Monterrey, N.L., Mexico, January 20 – 22, 2010). Monterrey, N.L. Mexico, 595. ISBN: 978-607-501-0007.

Tripathi, P. and Burleson. W. (2009) Affective support for the creative user. Creativity and Cognition 7, 2009, Exhibition and Poster proceedings, Berkeley, CA, October 2009.

Arroyo, I., Muldner, K., Burleson, W., Woolf, B. and Cooper, D. (2009) Designing Affective Support to Foster Learning, Motivation and Attribution. Closing the Affective Loop in Intelligent Learning Environments Workshop, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Brighton, England, July 2009.

Freed, A., McCutchen, D., Skriver Hansen, A., Overholt, D., Burleson, W.; Jensen, C., Mesker, A. (2009) Musical Applications and Design Patterns for the Gametrak; Sound and Music Computing Conference, July, 2009.

Burleson, W. and Jensen, C. (2008) “Game as Life – Life as Game”, Persuasive Technology: Third International Conference, PERSUASIVE 2008, Poster, Finland, June 2008.

Keylor, E. and Burleson, W. (2008) “Experience-scapes” Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Works in Progress, ACM, Florence, Italy, p. 2961-2966. April 2008.

B. Woolf, W. Burleson, and I. Arroyo, "Emotional Intelligence for Computer Tutors," in Workshop on Modeling and Scaffolding Affective Experiences to Impact Learning at 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Los Angeles, USA, 2007, July.

Jensen, C., Raaschou, T., Froholdt, S., and Burleson, W. (2007) “Sprok-it: A Physically Interactive Play System” Interaction Design for Children 2007, Short Paper, Aalborg, Denmark, June 2007.

Burleson, W. (2007) “Opportunities for Ubiquitous Design Environments in a Flat World”, Harvey Mudd Design Workshop Paper and Presentation, May 2007.

Burleson, W. (2005), “Affective Computing Research Agenda,” Proceedings of the 8th Annual Chinese-American Frontiers of Science Symposium, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, China, November 2005.

Burleson, W. (2004), “The Emergence of Physiological Computing,” Guest Editor, Special Issue on Physiological Computing, Interacting with Computers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, October 2004.

Burleson, W. and Picard, R. W. (2004),  “Affective Agents: Sustaining Motivation to Learn Through Failure and a State of ‘Stuck,’ ” Workshop on Social and Emotional Intelligence in Learning Environments, 7th Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Maceió, Brasil, August 2004.

Burleson, W. (2004), “Affective Learning Companions,” Student Track, 7th Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Maceió, Brasil, August 2004.

Burleson, W., Picard, R. W., Perlin, K., Lippincott, J. (2004), “A Platform for Affective Agent Research,” Workshop on Empathetic Agents, 3rd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, New York, NY, July 2004.

 

Book Chapters and Contributions

Burleson, W. (accepted 2011) Affective Learning Companion and the Adoption of Metacognitive Strategies, Azevedo, R. and Aleven, V. (Eds.). International Handbook of Metacognition and Learning Technologies. Springer Science, New York. 2011.

Burleson, W. (accepted 2011). Advancing a Multi-Modal Real-Time Affective Sensing Research Platform; Calvo, R. A., & D'Mello, S. (Eds.). New Perspectives on Affect and Learning Technologies, Springer. New York. 2011.

Burleson, W. (2010) Flying Solo: Exploring, Learning and Expressing Self-Actualization. In, Rand, S. (Ed.), Playing by the Rules: Alternative Thinking in Alternative Spaces, Apexart, New York, NY, 2010.

Burleson, W., Muldner, K., Picard, R. (2010) Learning Companions: Strategies for Real-time Affective Support Case Study. In, Designing for Affect Chapter, in R. Luckin (Ed.), In the Mood For Learning.  2010.

Arroyo, I., Cooper, D. G., Burleson, W., Woolf, B. P. (2010) Bayesian Networks and Linear Regression Models of Students’ Goals, Moods, and Emotions. In C. Romero, S. Ventura, M. Pechenizkiy, and R. Baker (Ed.) Handbook of Educational Data Mining. In Press 2010.

 

Awards as PI

NSF Computing Innovation Fellows Postdoctoral Mentor Award (5/12-11/12) $73,344.

NSF Award 11049425: Personalized Learning: Strategies to Respond to Distress and Promote Success (09/11 – 09/14) $600,000.

NSF Award 0846148: SGER: Human-Centered Computing: Creativity in IT Research Organizations (9/08 – 10/08) $149,934.

NSF Award 0846145: Workshop: Creativity and IT as Integral Elements of Growing Creative-IT Communities (9/08 – 9/10) $50,000.

NSF Award 0742305: Game As Life - Life As Game (9/07 – 9/08) $100,034.  

NASA/JPL Strategic University Research Partnership: Mission Contingencies for Astronaut - Robot – Mission Team Interactions (8/07 – 9/08) $75,000.

NSF Award 0705883: “HCC: Affective Learning Companions: Modeling and Supporting Emotion During Learning (10/07 – 10/10) $304,465.

NSF Award 0705883: “REU: HCC: Affective Learning Companions: Modeling and Supporting Emotion During Learning (10/07 – 10/10) $16,000.

 

Awards as Co-I

NASA Triad: A Triangulated Program to Promote NASA STEM Education Nationwide (9/10 – 9/12) $1,154,064.

NSF Award 0910221: Deeper Modeling via Affective Meta-Tutoring (9/09-9/12) $308,480.

NSF Award 0931237: Preparing for College: Using Technology to Support Students with Learning Disabilities in Mathematics  (9/09 – 9/10) $120,668.00.

JPL: Award 1311294: Electronics and Instrumentation for Extreme Environment Systems (7/07 – 7/08) $20,000.

 

Gifts

NSF SGER: Virtual eXchange for Science, Engineering, Design and the Arts (XSEAD) $258,980.

Center Theater Group, Human Robot Interaction – On Stage, (9/09) $10,000.

Nokia Research Center, Toys In Touch: Distance Play Interfaces, (10/09) $10,000.

Motorola Foundation, Innovation Generation Award, Motivational Environments, (9/09) $60,000.

ASU Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering Incentive Award - Game as Life (9/07) $10,000.

Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories: Everyday Soundtracks (8/07 –  8/09) $54,000.

iRobot Corporation: Human Robot Interaction: Terrain Mapping and Pet-Building (8/07) $20,000.

 

Exhibits

Overholt, D., Lahey, B., Hansen, A., Burleson, W., Jensen, C. (2009) Pendaphonics, Proceedings of the Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Installation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA, June  (2009)

STREB  (2009), “BRAVE” MacArthur Award winning choreographer, Elizabeth Streb in collaboration with ASU’s Future Arts Research (FAR) and Motivational Environments’ mixed reality interaction technologies, Temp, AZ, November, 2009.

Burleson, W., (2009), “Slow/Flow,” Greenbuild Symposium, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, November 2009.

Burleson, W., Jensen, C. N., Overholt, D., Skriver, A., Lahey, B. (2009), “Pendaphonics,” NSF - Media Arts Science and Technology Workshop, University of California, Santa Barbara, January 2009.

STREB  (2009), “CATAPULT,” MacArthur Award winning choreographer, Elizabeth Streb in collaboration with ASU’s Future Arts Research (FAR) and Motivational Environments’ mixed reality interaction technologies, Williamsburg, NY, March – May 2009.

Burleson, W., Jensen, C. N., Overholt, D., Skriver, A. (2008), “Pendaphonics,” Platform 4, Aalborg, Denmark, August 2008.

Dubbeldam, W. (2004), “From HardWare to SoftForm,” Acknowledged Contributor, Curator Francesca Rivero, HRGalería at Parque Espana, Mexico City, Mexico, September 2004.

Servo-Collective, Burleson, W., and Nemirovsky, P. (2004), “Thermocline Emonic Environment,” Non-Standard Architecture, Pompidou Centre, Paris, France, December 2003 – March 2004.

Burleson, W. and Verplaetse, C. (2003), “Circles of Life,” 4 Elements Exhibition, Forest Hills Garden Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, MA, May – September 2003.

Witzgall, B. (2004), “Dynamic Architecture,” Acknowledged Contributor, Architectural Intervention Collaboration Studio, Parsons School of Design, April 2003.

Dubbeldam, W. (2002), “From HardWare to SoftForm,” Acknowledged Contributor, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, Chelsea, NY, September 2002.

Burleson, W. and Selker, T. (2002), “Canopy Climb: A Virtual Climb to the Canopy of the Rainforest,” Temporary Exhibit, New England Aquarium, Boston, MA, August 2002.  

Burleson, W. and Selker, T. (2002), “Canopy Climb: A Virtual Climb to the Canopy of the Rainforest,” Permanent Exhibit, Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, FL, April 2002.  

Davenport, G. (2001), “Flights of Fantasy,” Acknowledged Contributor, The Boston Cyberarts Festival,  DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, April 2001.

Burleson, W. and Selker, T. (2000), “Reflective Ghost,” Ars Electronica 2000, Next Sex, Linz, Austria, September, 2000. 

Selker, T. and Burleson, W. (2000), “Desert Oracle,” MIT Media Lab Exhibit, Burning Man 2000, Black Rock Desert, NV, August 2000.

Burleson, W., Nemirovsky, P., and Overholt, D. (1999), “Hydrogen Wishes,” Experience in Interactive Expression Exhibit with Professor Steven Benton and Professor Glorianna Davenport, Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, Cambridge, MA, December 1999.

Burleson, W. (1997), “Electronic Lego Music Blocks,” Stanford Design Exhibit, Palo Alto, CA, February 1997.

 

Patents

1. #7,100,114, System and Process for Creating Bookmarked Web Pages Using Web Browser Intermediaries, 8/2006

2. #6,812,881, System for Remote Communication with an Addressable Target Using a Generalized Pointing Device, 11/2004

3. #6,717,528, System and Method for Dynamic Feedback Projection from a Hand-Held Pointing Device, 4/2004

4. #6,570,524, Method for Remote Communication with an Addressable Target Using a Generalized Pointing Device,  5/2003   

5. #6,567,032, Method of Directing Communication Between Addressable Targets Using a Generalized Pointing Device,  5/2003   

6. #6,522,763, Impact-Resistant Electronic Device, 2/2003

7. #6,195,640, Audio Reader [Eye-Tracking], 2/2001

8. #6,005,209, Thin Keyboard Having Torsion Bar Keyswitch Hinge Members, 12/1999

9. #5,943,041, Folding Keyboard, 8/1999            

10. #5,934,454, Thin Keyboard Having Multiple Hinge Members Per Keyswitch,  8/1999