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Awards and Honors
August 2010
The game "Parcours", developed in the Department of Informatics at Clausthal by Tim Warnecke and Patrick Dohrmann (project advisors: Prof. Rausch and Prof. Pinkwart) wins the "SMART Multitouch Application Contest". The cooperative game is designed to teach physical coordination and logical thinking for primary school kids - the price for winning the contest is a multitouch table that a primary school in Goslar will receive to enable their kids a game of "Parcours"! See here for a video of the game.June 2010
Within the nifbe (Lower Saxony Institute for Early Childhood Education and Development) framework, the State of Lower Saxony supports the research group of Prof. Pinkwart. The grant is awarded for the research project mobile2learn which was proposed jointly by Niels Pinkwart, Jörg Müller and the KVHS Goslar. The total funding for the project is approximately 100 K€. In the project, we will design, implement and test a combination of a web-based community platform with mobile phone access and field activities to support parents of young children.June 2010
Niels Pinkwart receives an "outstanding reviewer award" at the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems.October 2009
The diploma thesis of Frank Loll on collaborative filtering algorithms applied to eLearning was elected to win a sponsorship award by the association of friends of Clausthal University of Technology.October 2008
Within its "Project-based Personnel Exchange Programme" for 2009, the DAAD (German Acedemic Exchange Service) awards a grant of approx. 8 K€ to the research group of Prof. Pinkwart. Within the project "Engaging students in learning argumentation through intelligent collaboration technologies", Prof. Pinkwart and his colleagues at CMU (Vincent Aleven) and at the University of Pittsburgh (Kevin Ashley, Collin Lynch) will modify the existing LARGO program so that it engages students more actively.September 2008
The DFG supports the research group of Prof. Pinkwart with approximately 164 K€. The grant is awarded for the research project "Learning to Argue: Generalized Support Across domains (LASAD)" which was proposed jointly by Bruce McLaren (DFKI) and Niels Pinkwart. The total DFG funding for LASAD is approximately 344 K€. The aim of the project is to create a generalized framework and methodology for the construction of argumentation support systems to help students learn argumentation in different domains.April 2007
The DFG awards a travel grant to Niels Pinkwart in order to support his attendance of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2007) and his presentation of the paper "Evaluating Legal Argument Instruction with Graphical Representations Using LARGO" (co-authored with Vincent Aleven, Kevin Ashley and Collin Lynch). The paper shows the results of a first empirical evaluation of the Intelligent Tutoring system LARGO.September 2006
Niels Pinkwart and his colleagues Vincent Aleven, Kevin Ashley, and Collin Lynch win the Best Paper Award at the 4th eLearning Conference of the German Computer Science Society (DELFI 2006) for their paper "Schwachstellenermittlung und Rückmeldungsprinzipen in einem intelligenten Tutorensystem für juristische Argumentation". The paper presents the ITS system LARGO and focuses on the AI strategies within the system that determine which feedback message (out of many possible) to offer the users.June 2006
The paper "Toward Legal Argument Instruction with Graph Grammars and Collaborative Filtering Techniques", written by Niels Pinkwart and his colleagues Vincent Aleven, Kevin Ashley and Collin Lynch, is nominated for the Best Paper Award at the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2006). The paper introduces the technology underlying the novel intelligent tutoring system LARGO (Legal ARGument Graph Observer), which is designed to help law students acquire argumentation and hypothetical reasoning skills.February 2006
The DFG awards a travel grant to Niels Pinkwart. This allows him to present his dissertation work at a colloquium at Schloss Dagstuhl.The PhD thesis "Collaborative Modeling in Graph Based Environments" of Niels Pinkwart is nominated for the Dissertation Award of the GI and elected the best Computer Science dissertation 2005 at the University of Duisburg-Essen.