EAAI-19 Call for Participation

Dates

About EAAI

EAAI-19 provides a venue for researchers and educators to discuss pedagogical issues and share resources related to teaching and using AI in education across a variety of curricular levels (K-12 through postgraduate training), with an emphasis on undergraduate and graduate teaching and learning. The symposium seeks contributions showing how to more effectively teach AI, as well as how themes from AI may be used to enhance education more broadly (for example, in introductory computing courses or as a means for teaching computational thinking). We encourage the sharing of innovative educational approaches that convey or leverage AI and its many subfields, including robotics, machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and others.

EAAI-19 is expected to include two invited talks (including a talk of the recipient of the AAAI/EAAI Outstanding AI Educator Award 2019); a panel with AI education experts; Model AI Assignments; special tracks on Providing Research Experiences for Undergraduate Students, Best Practices for Running an AI Research Group, and AI for Education and Outreach; and other exciting activities.

Submission Types

EAAI-19 provides a Main Paper Track with full-length papers (8 pages with page 8 containing nothing but references) and extended abstract/poster contributions (2 pages, including references) on all topics of relevance to EAAI-19. EAAI-19 also provides a variety of Special Tracks, each with their own submission requirements (see “Special Tracks” below).

EAAI-19 welcomes Main Track paper submissions on a variety of topics, including (but not limited to) the following:

We also encourage submissions to the Educational Video Track within the AAAI-19 Video Program.

Special Tracks

Special Paper Track: AI for Education

Track Chair: Justin Li, Occidental College
The special track is about using AI in applications for education to improve teaching and evaluation (for example, intelligent tutors or machine learning for MOOCs) or improve learning and retention of students (for example, educational robots, competitions, games, wearables, or K-12 outreach activities). The submission requirements are the same as for the main track

Model AI Assignments Session

Organizer: Todd Neller, Gettysburg College
Good project assignments for AI classes are hard to come by. If you believe an assignment you have developed may be useful to other AI educators, we encourage you to prepare it for broad dissemination and submit it to the Model AI Assignments session. If selected, the project will be made available to other AI educators as a Model AI Assignment (modelai.gettysburg.edu) and will be presented at EAAI. The submission requirements are described in the Call for Model AI Assignments and at the separate EAAI supplementary website.

Special Paper Track: Non-traditional Research Experiences for Undergraduates

Track Chair: Joshua Eckroth, Stetson University
This track solicits work about opportunities for students outside of traditional NSF-funded REU experiences. This includes research-focused courses or senior projects, internships, competitions such as Kaggle, and other informal research experiences. We hope to uncover new ideas about how students may discover and engage in these activities, often under the mentorship of faculty. This track is an outcome of an EAAI-18 panel.

Birds of a Feather (BoF) Panels

Inspired by SIGCSE, EAAI BoFs provide an opportunity for symposium participants to discuss a topic of communal interest. The 1-2-page submission should include a title, a 200-word (maximum) abstract; a description of the panel topic, including a justification of its importance to the community and any relevant background and references; as well as a list of at least three relevant individuals, including brief biographical sketches, that have agreed to serve as panelists (the primary author will be tasked with moderating the panel/discussion). Submissions will be evaluated based upon topic relevance, likelihood for participant engagement, and appropriateness for a panel medium. Accepted submissions will be allotted 50 minutes in the EAAI schedule, and the abstracts will be aggregated as an extended abstract for inclusion within the symposium proceedings.

Submission Content and Formatting

Full-length submissions to the main or special paper tracks of EAAI-19 should describe well-developed ideas and/or pedagogical examples. Submissions are expected to provide in-depth arguments for the advantages of the proposed ideas. For example, a proposed curriculum could be evaluated by comparing it against existing ones or by presenting feedback from students obtained via questionnaires. Formal evaluations are welcome but not required. Extended abstract/poster submissions may highlight preliminary or ongoing work.

Papers submitted to the Main Track must be formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style (available July 2018). Special Tracks may have their own submission requirements, detailed above. EAAI submissions should be anonymous whenever possible, and should be formatted for double-blind review. Full-length submissions may have up to 8 pages with Page 8 containing nothing but references. Shorter submissions of 2-4 pages are permitted, depending on the track; those page limits include references. The AAAI copyright block is not required on submissions, but must be included on final versions.

Policy Concerning Submissions to Other Conferences or Journals

EAAI-19 will not consider any paper that, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Once submitted to EAAI-19, authors may not submit the paper elsewhere during EAAI/AAAI's review period. These restrictions apply only to refereed journals and conferences, not to unrefereed forums or workshops with a limited audience and without archival proceedings. Authors must confirm that their submissions conform to these requirements at the time of submission.