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