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Publications
Nicholas Lytle*, Mark Floryan, David Amin*. “Design Frameworks for Experiential Educational Games”. International Journal of Serious Games (2016). (In Submission)
Toby Dragon, Mark Floryan, Grayson Wilkins*, Thomas Sparks*. “Efficiency vs. Immersion: Design Trade-offs for an Exploratory Learning Environment”. ITS Workshop on Exploratory Learning Environments. Zagreb, Croatia (2016). (In Submission).
Mark Sherriff, Mark Floryan, David Wert*. “Achievement Unlocked: Investigating Which Gamification Elements Motivate Students”. 123rd Annual ASEE Conference and Exposition. New Orleans, LA (2015).
Nicholas Lytle*, Mark Floryan. “A Design Framework for Experiential Educational Games”. Proceedings of the Games and Learning Alliance (GALA) Conference. Rome, Italy (2015).
Mark Floryan, Toby Dragon, Nada Basit, Suellen Dragon, Beverly Park Woolf. “Who Needs Help? Automating Student Assessment within Exploratory Learning Environments”. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. Madrid, Spain (2015).
Enid K. Sichel, Beverly Park Woolf, Mark Floryan. “Web-based Personalized Laboratories for Engineering Students”. Proceedings of the 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education. Bridgeport, CT (2014). *Nominated for Best Paper Award
Enid K. Sichel, Beverly Park Woolf, Mark Floryan. “Personalized Intelligent Software Responses for Engineering Students”. Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE-USA Annual Meeting and Innovations in Technology Conference. Providence, RI (2014).
Beverly Park Woolf, Winslow Burleson, Bradley Henry, Mark Floryan, Avron Barr. “White House Pull Mechanisms for Education”. United States Office of Science and Technology Policy; Request for Information: Advancing Learning Technology through Pull Mechanisms. (2014).
Mark Floryan, Beverly Woolf. “Improving the Efficiency of Automatic Knowledge Generation through Games and Simulations”. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. Memphis, TN (2013).
Mark Floryan, Beverly Woolf. “Authoring Expert Knowledge Bases for Intelligent Tutors through Crowdsourcing”. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. Memphis, TN (2013). *Best Poster Award Winner
Mark Floryan. “Evolving Expert Knowledge Bases: Applications of Crowdsourcing and Serious Gaming to Advance Knowledge Development for Intelligent Tutoring Systems”. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2013).
Mark Floryan, Toby Dragon, Beverly Woolf. "When Less is More: Focused Pruning of Knowledge Bases to Improve Recognition of Student Conversation".
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Chania, Crete (2012)
Mark Floryan, Beverly Woolf. "Students that Benefit from Educational 3D Games".
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies. Athens, GA (2011)
Mark Floryan, Beverly Woolf. "Optimizing the Performance of Educational Web Services".
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies. Athens, GA (2011)
Mark Floryan, Beverly Woolf. "Rashi Game: Towards an Effective Educational 3D Gaming Experience".
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies. Athens, GA (2011)
Toby Dragon, Mark Floryan, Beverly Woolf, Tom Murray. "Recognizing Dialogue Content in Student Collaborative Conversation". Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Pittsburgh, PA (2010)
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Mark Floryan, Beverly Woolf, Toby Dragon, Tom Murray. "Interactive Event: Collaboration and Content Recognition Features in an Inquiry Tutor". Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Pittsburgh, PA (2010)
Abstract(pdf)
Mark Floryan, Beverly Woolf, Rick Adrion. "Web Services and Serious Games: the applications of web based software engineering techniques for the purpose of developing game based intelligent tutoring systems". 2010 (Preparation)
Mark Floryan, Beverly Woolf. "A Literature Review of the Field of Serious Games". 2009.
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Mark Floryan. "Consolidating and deriving HCI techniques for non visual user interfaces". Honors Thesis. University of Virginia, University Press (2008)