Me and my cat

Tyler Robison

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington

Paul Allen Center, Room 502, Box 352350
Seattle, WA 98195

trobison at cs.washington.edu

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I'm a graduate student in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Washington, working with professor Steve Tanimoto. I received my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, at Champaign Urbana, with a minor in Mathematics, in 2003. I received my master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Washington.

My research focuses on designing educational technology, specifically making educational systems more transparent; that is, giving the learner a view inside the program's mind. Say you're using an intelligent tutoring system to learn algebra, working through problems and getting feedback from the tutor. What if you were now given a view into the tutor's mind, and can see why it chooses the problems it does, what it believes about you the learner, how it makes decisions and how it organizes and reasons about information? I'm interested in investigating these questions, with the goal of making educational systems more effective and easier to use.

Projects

An example of transparency called an open learner model Transparent Assesssment A screenshot of my implementation of the Data Factory, showing the definition of a recursive device The Data Factory, Version 2
A screenshot of the Data Factory, demonstrating the use of the array device Adding an Array to the Data Factory A screen shot of the 3d engine for the PRIME Game system PRIME Game 3d Engine
The logo for the REAssess project Team Member of REAssess Project A screenshot of a small exercise running on the Interactive Window component of the INFACT system Work on the INFACT System

Papers

  • Tyler Robison, Steve Tanimoto. Towards a More Transparent Tutor: Opening up Assessment and Control Processes to Learners. In the Workshop for Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning in Educational Technologies at Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 2008.
  • Jeffrey P. Bigham, Anna C. Cavender, Ryan S. Kaminsky, Craig M. Prince, Tyler S. Robison. Transcendence: Enabling a Personal View of the Deep Web. Proc. of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2008
  • Tyler Robison, Steve Tanimoto. Controlling Transparency in an Online Learning Environment. Short paper in Proc. of Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing, 2007.
  • Tyler Robison. Composition of Communication Services in a Visual Programming Language. Doctoral Consortium for Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing, 2006
  • Tyler Robison. Transparent Array Devices for Visual Programming. Doctoral Consortium for Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing, 2005

Teaching Assistantships

  • CSE 100, Computer Fluency, University of Washington
  • CSE 142, Computer Programming I, University of Washington
  • CSE 143, Computer Programming II, University of Washington
  • CSE 373, Data Structures and Algorithms, University of Washington
  • CSE 415, Introduction to Artifical Intelligence for Non-majors, University of Washington
  • CSE 473, Introduction to Artifical Intelligence, University of Washington

Departmental Activities

  • Co-chair of Prospective Student Committee, 2007-2008 School Year
  • Co-Reviewer of Undergrad Admissions, 2008-2009 School Year
  • Pit Party Coordinator, 2006?
  • Tutoring for CS Undergrads, Various Quarters
  • Participant in UW Engineering Open House, Various Years

About me

Interests outside of CS
  • Reading
  • Hiking (I'm near the center of the image on right; kind of hard to spot though)
  • Travel
Volunteer Work
  • Computer Tutoring at the Hearthstone Retirement Community
  • Homework Tutoring at Bryant Elementary School
  • Science Fair Helper at Bryant Elementary School
  • Youth Tutoring Program, Summer 2006
 Our detour up a waterfall the Twin-Falls hike