Education

Ph.D. student (currently enrolled)
North Carolina State University

B.A. in Computer Science (2005)
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Conference Papers

Predicting Facial Indicators of Confusion with Hidden Markov Models. Joseph F. Grafsgaard, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, and James C. Lester. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Memphis, Tennessee, 2011, 97-106.

Modeling Confusion: Facial Expression, Task, and Discourse in Task-Oriented Tutorial Dialogue. Joseph F. Grafsgaard, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, and James C. Lester. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Auckland, New Zealand, 2011, 98-105.

An Affect-Enriched Dialogue Act Classification Model for Task-Oriented Dialogue. Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Joseph F. Grafsgaard, Eun Young Ha, Robert Phillips, and James C. Lester. Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Conference, Portland, Oregon, 2011, 1190-1199.

Projects

JavaTutor: An affect-enriched natural language tutorial dialogue project for 1st year post-secondary computer science education.