Evelyn Lulis
Research Interests
Main area of interest is artificial intelligence, specifically medical expert systems. Current research involves the implementation of analogies using natural language generation in an electronic tutoring system called CIRCSIM-Tutor in conjunction with Rush Medical College. Other areas: the implementation of analogy, similarity, and metaphor; cognitive science; natural language generation; technology education; ethical computing.
Research Projects
CIRCSIM-Tutor Research Group. The CIRCSIM-Tutor project is building a language-based intelligent tutoring system for first-year medical students to learn about the reflex control of blood pressure. Students solve small problems and are tutored by Socratic dialog with the computer. Version 3 is currently in development.
Lego Project. The project is exploring the use of Lego robots in middle school math curriculums to determine it effectiveness in improving critical thinking skills. Planning to be in middle schools beginning spring, 2006.
Publications
Journal Articles
Settle, A., Berthiaume, A., Lulis, E., Mirza, A. (2003) Informed Discussion in Information Technology Survey Courses. In Information Systems Education Journal 1(6), http://isedj.org/1/6/, ISSN: 1545-679X.
Refereed Conference Publications
Lulis, E., Argamon, S., & Evens, M. W. (to appear). Expert Tutors Adjust Tutoring Strategies When They Change Tutoring Policies in Response to Their Assessment of Student Performance. Intelligent Tutoring Systems Workshop on Teaching With Robots, Agents, and NLP, 2006.
Ricca, B., Lulis, E., & Bade, D. (to appear). Lego Mindstorms and the Growth of Critical Thinking. Intelligent Tutoring Systems Workshop on Teaching With Robots, Agents, and NLP, 2006.
Lulis, Evens, Michael. (2006). Using Analogies to Teach Negative Reflex Control Systems to Medical Students. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Association of Science and Technology for Development’s (IASTED) International Conference on Control and Applications, 322-331. Anaheim, CA: ACTA Press. (
Lulis, E., Freedman, R., & Evens, M. (2005). Implementing analogies using APE rules in an electronic tutoring system. In C.K. Looi, G. McCalla, H. Pain (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), 866-888. IOS Press: Amsterdam.
Lulis, E., Michael, J. A., & Evens, M. W. (2004). Implementing analogies in an electronic tutoring system. In J. C. Lester, R. M. Vicari, & F. Paraguaçu (Eds.), Proceedings of the International conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) 2004, 751-761. September, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3220, Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Lulis, E., Michael, J. A., & Evens, M. W. (2004). Using qualitative reasoning in the classroom and In electronic teaching systems. Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, 121-127. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL August, 2004.
Lulis, E., Evens, M., & Michael, J. (2004). How Human Tutors Employ Analogy to Facilitate Understanding. Proceedings of the Twenty Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Lulis, E., Evens, M., & Michael, J. (2003). Representation of Analogies Found in Human Tutoring Sessions. Proceedings of the Second International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) International Conference on Information and Knowledge Sharing, 88-93. Anaheim, CA: ACTA Press.
Lulis, Evelyn and Evens, Martha. (2003). The Use of Analogies in Human Tutoring Dialogues. American Association for Artificial Intelligence 7: 2003 Spring Symposium Series Natural Language Generation in Spoken and Written Dialogue, 94-96.
Reviewed Publications
Lulis, E. (June, 2006). Book review of Genre Across the Curriculum, by Anne Herrington and Charles Moran. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication.
Unpublished Works
Lulis, E. (2005). Implementing analogies in an intelligent tutoring system by modeling human tutoring sessions. Ph.D. Thesis, Illinois Institute of Technology. Chicago, IL.
Other Activities
Program co-chair for a workshop at The Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) 2006: Teaching with Agents, Robots, and NLP to be held in Conjunction with the Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Jhongli, Taiwan, 2006.
Program chair for the 2007 Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference (MAICS); organization program committee member for 2005 and 2006.
Digital Arts Judge for the Union League Boys and Girls of America's Digital Arts Festival, May, 2005.
Program organizing committee member for the workshop at The Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) 2004 on Dialog-based Intelligent Tutoring Systems: State of the art and new research directions, to be held in Conjunction with the Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil.
Reviewer for Proceedings of the Twenty Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 2006.
Reviewer for Proceedings of the Twenty Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Stresa, Italy, July 2005.
Reviewer for ISECON 2003: Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference, San Diego, California, November 2003.
Reviewer for McGraw Hill Publishing Company. Reviewed: Williams, Brian K. and Sawyer, Stacey C. (2003). Using Information Technology. NY: McGaw Hill.
Last modified: 10/9/2007