Tactical Iraqi wins 2007 I/ITSEC Serious Games Showcase & Challenge

Tactical Iraqi wins DARPA's 2005 Award for Significant Technical Achievement

"I can best summarize Tactical Iraqi's success by quoting one soldier's words: 'I learned more Arabic in one day with it than I learned in my whole tour in Iraq.'"
Dr. Anthony J. Tether, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

"The idea is to put behind every steering wheel and behind every trigger finger in a foreign country a little bit of that culture and language....I'll be happy if this could save just one life by preventing a misunderstanding."
Dr. Ralph Chatham, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Research publications

Intelligent Tutoring and Pedagogical Experience Manipulation
H.C. Lane and W.L. Johnson. In D. Schmorrow (ed.) Intelligent Tutoring in Virtual Environments. May 2008

The Politeness Effect in an intelligent foreign language tutoring system
Wang, N. and Johnson, W.L.. Proceedings of ITS 2008. April 2008

Assessing aptitude for learning with a serious game for foreign language and culture
Johnson & Wu. ITS 2008, Montreal. April 2008

Tactical Language and Culture Training Systems: Using Artificial Intelligence to Teach Foreign Languages and Cultures
Johnson & Valente. In Proceedings of IAAI 2008. March 2008

Collaborative Authoring of Serious Games for Language and Culture
W.L. Johnson & A. Valente. SimTecT 2008. March 2008

The Politeness Effect: Pedagogical Agents and Learning Outcomes
N. Wang, W.L. Johnson, R.E. Mayer, P. Rizzo, E. Shaw, & H. Collins. Int. J. Human Computer Studies, in press. February 2008

Multi-platform delivery of game-based learning content
W. Lewis Johnson, Andre Valente, Robert Heuts. Proceedings of the New Learning Technology Conference, Society for Applied Learning Technology (SALT). 2008

Improving the authoring of foreign language interactive lessons in the Tactical Language Training System
Joram Meron, Andre Valente, W. Lewis Johnson. Presented at the Speech and Language Technology in Education Workshop (SLaTE). 2007

Experience with serious games for learning foreign languages and cultures
W. Lewis Johnson, Ning Wang, Shumin Wu. Proceedings of the SimTecT Conference. Australia. 2007

Implementing logic spreadsheets in LESS
Andre Valente, David van Brackle, Hans Chalupsky, Gary Edwards. The Knowledge Engineering Review, Volume 22, Issue 03, December 2007, pp 237-253

An introduction to logical spreadsheets
Michael Kassoff, Andre Valente. The Knowledge Engineering Review, Volume 22, Issue 03, December 2007, pp 213-219

Serious games for language learning: How much game, how much AI?
W. Lewis Johnson, Hannes Vilhjalmsson, Stacy Marsella. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. Amsterdam: IOS Press. 2005

Iterative evaluation of a large-scale, intelligent game for language learning
W. Lewis Johnson, Carole Beale.In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. Amsterdam: IOS Press. 2005

A pedagogical agent for psychosocial intervention on a handheld computer
W. Lewis Johnson, Catherine LaBore, Yuan-Chun Chiu. In Proceedings of AAAI Fall Symposium on Health Dialog System. 64-70. Menlo Park, California: AAAI Press. 2004

The DARWARS Tactical Language Training System
W. Lewis Johnson, Stacy Marsella, Hannes Vilhjálmsson. Proceedings of I/ITSEC 2004.

Generating socially appropriate tutorial dialog
W. Lewis Johnson, Paula Rizzo, Wauter Bosma, Sander Kole, Mattijs Ghijsen, Herwin van Welbergen. In E. André et al (Eds.): Proceedings of 2004 Affective Dialogue Systems, Tutorial and Research Workshop. 254-264. Berlin: Springer. 1004. 2004

Tactical Language Training System: An interim report
W. Lewis Johnson, Carole Beal, Anna Fowles-Winkler, Ursula Lauper, Stacy Marsella, Shrikanth Narayanan, Dimitra Papachristou, Hannes Vilhjalmsson. Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2004. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. 2004

Tactical language detection and modeling of learner speech errors: The case of Arabic tactical language training for American English speakers
Nicolaus Mote, W. Lewis Johnson, Abhinav Sethy, Jorge Silva, Shrikanth Narayanan. Procedings of the InSTIL Symposium, 47-50. 2004

Socially intelligent learner-agent interaction tactics
W. Lewis Johnson, Sander Kole, Erin Shaw, Helen Pain. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. Amsterdam, IOS Press. 2003

Interactive pedagogical drama for health interventions
Stacy Marsella, W. Lewis Johnson, Catherine M. LaBore. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Amsterdam, IOS Press, 2003

Animated pedagogical agents: Face-to-face interaction in interactive learning environments
W. Lewis Johnson, Jeff W. Rickel, James C. Lester. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 11, 47-78. 2000