Arthur C. Graesser (Ph.D. 1977, U. California San Diego) Professor Experimental, Cognitive Co-director, The Institute for Intelligent Systems Psychology Building, Room 202 FedEx Institute of Technology, Room 403C 901.678.4857 (telephone) 901.678.2579 (fax) art.graesser@gmail.com 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

• D’Mello, S. K., Picard, R., & Graesser, A. C. (2007). Toward an affect-sensitive AutoTutor. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 22, 53–61.
• Graesser, A. C., Jeon, M., & Dufty, D. (2008). Agent technologies designed to facilitate interactive knowledge construction. Discourse Processes, 45, 298–322.
• Graesser, A.C., & McNamara, D.S. (in press).  Computational analyses of multilevel discourse comprehension. Topics in Cognitive Science.  
• Hacker, D. J., Dunlosky, J., & Graesser, A. C. (Eds.). (2009). Handbook of metacognition in education. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum/Taylor & Francis.
• 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.
• Wiley, J., Goldman, S. R., Graesser, A. C., Sanchez, C. A., Ash, I. K., & Hemmerich, J. A. (in press). Source evaluation, comprehension, and learning in Internet science inquiry tasks. American Educational Research Journal.