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Sharifa Alghowinem

4 accepted papers

2024

Dr. R.O. Bott Will See You Now: Exploring AI for Wellbeing with Middle School Students

AAAI 2024technical

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is permeating almost every area of society, reshaping how many people, including youth, navigate the world. Despite the increased presence of AI, most people lack a baseline knowledge of how AI works. Moreover, social barriers often hinder equal access to AI courses, per…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2024

EmpathicStories++: A Multimodal Dataset for Empathy Towards Personal Experiences

ACL 2024findings

Modeling empathy is a complex endeavor that is rooted in interpersonal and experiential dimensions of human interaction, and remains an open problem within AI. Existing empathy datasets fall short in capturing the richness of empathy responses, often being confined to in-lab or acted scenarios, lack…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2023

An Introduction to Rule-Based Feature and Object Perception for Middle School Students

AAAI 2023technical

The Feature Detection tool is a web-based activity that allows students to detect features in images and build their own rule-based classification algorithms. In this paper, we introduce the tool and share how it is incorporated into two, 45-minute lessons. The objective of the first lesson is to in…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2023

Build-a-Bot: Teaching Conversational AI Using a Transformer-Based Intent Recognition and Question Answering Architecture

AAAI 2023technical

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a prominent part of modern life, AI literacy is becoming important for all citizens, not just those in technology careers. Previous research in AI education materials has largely focused on the introduction of terminology as well as AI use cases and ethics, bu…

Cited by 26SourcePDFScholar