Future Adaptive Collaborative Educational Technologies
Parent-EMBRACE:
An Embodied ITS for Improving Comprehension during Parent-Child Shared Reading
This interactive reading comprehension intervention used embodied cognition, intelligent tutoring, and research into bilingual education to support young Latino readers in preschool and elementary school. In a previous project called EMBRACE, readers were tasked with interacting with an intelligent e-book by app in response to the text, are given tips based on an intelligent tutoring system, and are given challenging but appropriate texts based on their reading level. This project built onto the EMBRACE system by including new features that support a parent and child reading together by presenting parents with example questions they could ask their children and enabling reading and question-asking in Spanish and English. Our ultimate goal was to foster interaction between parents and children surrounding expository and narrative texts that can improve the child’s reading comprehension.
This NSF funded project was a collaboration with Dr. Arthur Glenberg and Dr. Chris Blais at Arizona State University, and Dr. Adelaida Restrepo at the University of Florida. Within the lab, Jordan Barria-Pineda worked on the project.
Publications
Lekshmi Narayanan, A.B. et al. (2021). Parent-EMBRACE: An Adaptive Dialogic Reading Intervention. In: Roll, I., McNamara, D., Sosnovsky, S., Luckin, R., Dimitrova, V. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12749. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78270-2_43
Pérez Cortés, L. E.; Ventura, A. C.; Barria Pineda, J. A.; Lapetina, A. M.; Alvarez, M. A.; Chaves-Gnecco, D.; Walker, E. A.; & Leyva, D. (2025, April). “Cuéntame Cuentos”: A family dialogic-reading and reminiscing app to support Latino preschoolers’ literacy skills. Roundtable presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado.
