Computer Science professor and Human-Computer Interaction researcher @ Abilene Christian University. I like a good sci-fi or fantasy book or show.
Abilene, TX
Joined April 2009
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Very disappointed that I already pay for #Dropbox but somehow can't use Dropbox Capture without paying even more money. Well, back to GIPHY.
Why is #CHI2024 so oblivious to work done in the SIGCSE community? For a community like CHI that's so obsessed with novelty and major contributions, it's embarrassing to see.
As an example: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3…
The paper asks: "What if we could use Generative AI to create personally contextualized learning materials?" Great study, but misses work like the 2022 ICER best paper by Sarsa et al. on automatic exercise generation cited > 250 times.
Loved giving our talk at #CHI2024 on past, present, and future work on novice programmers using GenAI. I presented some work from our TOCHI paper, things we saw then that we still see today, and how we think we can begin to address it.
The awesome students in our SIGCHI local chapter preparing for the #chi2024 Student Research Competition by filming their talk. #BehindTheScenes #ACU
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How to ace your PhD thesis defence.
My Questions and Answers Guide ↓
ALT This table shows Professor Nacke's guide to your PhD defence. It provides strategies and answer templates for the most common PhD defence questions: What is the main contribution of your research? Can you explain the methodology used in your research? How does your work differ from existing research? How do your results impact the broader field? What limitations does your study have? Can you discuss the significance of your chosen theory and why you chose it for your study? How did you ensure the reliability and validity of data? How would you respond to criticism of your methodology? What future research do you recommend based on your findings? How did you handle ethical considerations in your research? How do your conclusions align with your initial research questions? What is the practical impact of your research?
So excited to have our article featured in the front page of Communications of the ACM!
"Computing Education in the Era of #GenerativeAI," by Paul Denny, @JRPrather, @BrettABecker, @James__Ansley, Arto Hellas, @Leinonen_Juho, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, @Brent_Reeves, @_EddieAntonio, & Sami Sarsa, examines how #LLMs affect #computing #educators. bit.ly/3uhsFsq
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"Computing Education in the Era of #GenerativeAI," by Paul Denny, @JRPrather, @BrettABecker, @James__Ansley, Arto Hellas, @Leinonen_Juho, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, @Brent_Reeves, @_EddieAntonio, & Sami Sarsa, examines how #LLMs affect #computing #educators. bit.ly/3uhsFsq
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Super excited to announce that our paper "'Backseat Gaming' An Interview Study on Co-Regulated Learning within a Collegiate Male Esports Community" has been accepted at #chi2024! Big thanks to all the co-authors @rezahbi @magiseif @jrprather @Brent_Reeves and Garrett Powell!
Excited to announce our #chi2024 paper: "Interactions with Prompt Problems: A New Way to Teach Programming with Large Language Models" that details a new programming exercise for the era of generative AI / LLMs. arxiv.org/abs/2401.10759
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The Robots are Here, and they're open access to boot! 50 pages of Navigating the Generative AI Revolution in Computing Education incl student & educator surveys, interviews, new instructional approaches, & exploring ethical implications: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36237…
#chi2024 reviews are visible on PCS. Thankful for all the reviewers and program committee and the hard work they've put into this. Time to start revising!
Gonna be waiting nervously all weekend for #chi2024 reviews to drop on Monday. Probably spend all day Monday refreshing PCS.
Announcing a landmark report on large language models in Computer Science education, compiled by 16 experts from across the globe who have gathered the nascent literature on the subject and prepared resources for the coming years.
arxiv.org/abs/2310.00658
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Interested in large language models and their potential applications in computing education? I’m looking for a (fully-funded) PhD student to study how novices use LLMs and how LLMs can be used to create educational resources @CSAalto. Find out more & apply aalto.fi/en/open-positions/p…
Back in March, some colleagues and I started toying with an idea to create a new class of programming problems. We call them Prompt Problems and created a tool, called "Promptly", to deliver them. Check out our early results paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2307.16364
What are generative AI tools (like ChatGPT) doing to Computer Science education? What will CS education look like in the future? Watch our keynote from ITiCSE 2023 to find out. @peerwise @leinonen_juho @brettabecker @jrprather
youtube.com/watch?v=KwVcRXQc…