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Arthur C. Graesser (Ph.D. 1977, U. California San Diego) Professor; Chair, Department of Psychology Experimental, Cognitive Co-director, The Institute for Intelligent Systems Psychology Building, Room 202 FedEx Institute of Technology, Room 403C 901.678.2146 (telephone) 901.678.5247 (telephone) 901.678.2579 (fax) a-graesser@memphis.edu website

Education

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
B.A., Florida State University

Research Interests

• Cognitive Science
• Discourse Processing
• Artificial Intelligence
• Computational Procedures
• Text Comprehension
• Human and Computer Tutoring
• Design of Educational Software
• Human-Computer Interaction

• Graesser, A. C., Cai, Z., Louwerse, M., Daniel, F. (2006). Question Understanding Aid (QUAID): A web facility that helps survey methodologists improve the comprehensibility of questions.  Public Opinion Quarterly, 70, 1-20.
• Graesser, A. C., Jackson, G. T., & McDaniel, B. (2007). AutoTutor holds conversations with learners that are responsive to their cognitive and emotional states. Educational Technology, 47, 19-22.
• Graesser, A. C., Jeon, M., & Dufty, D. (in press). Agent Technologies Designed to Facilitate Interactive Knowledge Construction. Discourse Processes.
• VanLehn, K., Graesser, A. C., Jackson, G. T., Jordan, P., Olney, A., & Rose, C. P. (2007). When are tutorial dialogues more effective than reading? Cognitive Science, 31, 3-62.
• D’Mello, S. K., Picard, R. W., & Graesser, A. C. (in press). Towards an Affect-Sensitive AutoTutor. IEEE Intelligent Systems.