Rachel Brinkman - Week 5

1. What was planned?
- Go to AIED conference in the UK

2. What was done?
- Went to AIED conference, attended as many workshops and talks as possible.
- Also worked as a student volunteer - loaded conference bags, signed people up for the conference, directed people to the different conference rooms, and ran mics for the keynote QA sessions.

3. Problems encountered?
- None, but there were some near misses at the Chicago O'Hare International Airport. They don't have enough signs.

4. What did you learn this week?
- I learned a lot about the the cutting edge research questions in the area of AI and Education and some of the potential answers to those questions, such as the study of metacognition, empathetic agents, affect detection, and scaffolding.

5. What's planned for next week?
- Return the Dance Tool to a stable state
- Help Evie run a user study on the Dance Tool
- Work on integrating Evie's and my work on Table Tilt

6. Hours worked.
40ish.