ITS2026 Conference Program
Wednesday, June 03 – 9:00 to 9:30 – REGISTRATION
DAY 1 : Wednesday, JUNE 03
09:30 – 10:00
OPENING SESSION (PLENARY)
Greetings from the Host University: Prof. Savvas Chatzichristofis (General Chair)
Greetings from the Program Chairs: Prof. Ali Dewan, and Prof. Filippo Sciarrone
Greetings from the President of the ITS Steering Committee: Prof. Claude Frasson
Greetings from the Local Organization Chair: Prof. Zachos Anthis
Greetings from the Organization Chair: Dr. Kitty Panourgia
10:00 – 11:00
KEYNOTE SPEECH (PLENARY)
Session Chair: Claude Frasson
Prof. Sotirios Chatzis (Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus)
“Learning as a Diffusion Process: Towards Trustworthy, Multimodal, and Efficient Generative Tutors”
11:00 – 11:30
COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 13:15
SESSION 1
SESSION 2
Session 1 – Mixed
Session Chair: Elvira Popescu
Session 2 – Online
Session Chair: Pierpaolo Vittorini
#1 (Full)*
Stefanie Amiruzzaman, Md Amiruzzaman and Ali Dewan
Bridging the Silent Divide: A Meta-Analysis of AI-Powered Tutoring Systems for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Learners.
#55(Short)*
Imran S. A. Khan, Emmanuel G. Blanchard and Sébastien George
Enhancing Place-Based Climate Education Through a Microclimate-Aware Educational Chatbot
#21 (Full)*
Doru Constantin and Costel Bălcău
Modeling Adaptive Learner Trajectories in Immersive Learning Environments via Interpretable Cellular Automata
#34 (Full)*
Sunwoo Park and Hyeoncheol Kim
From Undiagnosable to Diagnosable: Agentic Data Curation for Long-Tail Compiler Error Classification
# 8 (Poster)
Haya Shamir, David Pocklington, Mikayla Tom, Alexander Houchins and Erik Yoder
Early Indicators of Literacy Success: A Longitudinal Machine Learning Approach
#40 (Short)*
Junsoo Park, Youssef Medhat, Htet Phyo Wai, Ploy Thajchayapong and Ashok K. Goel
Conditioning Context Shapes Stateful Personalization in Educational Recommender Systems
#86 (Poster)
Gabriel Badea, Elvira Popescu and Marco Temperini
A Specialized Conversational Agent for Peer Assessment Training, Applied to the Case of Propositional Logic Learning
#2 (Short)*
Panayiota Hadjiathanasiou Diakou and Charoula Angeli
Designing Agentic Intelligent Tutoring Ecosystems for Primary Literacy: A Design-Oriented ITS Study with Empirical Validation
#7 (Poster)
Haya Shamir, David Pocklington, Mikayla Tom and Erik Yoder
Decoding the Future: How Predictive Rhyme Scoring is Redefining Literacy
#44(Poster) *
Rositsa V. Ivanova and Kenan Bektas
Argument Quality in the Eye of the Annotator: Understanding the Challenges of Annotation Through Eye Tracking
* Online presentation
13:30 – 14:00
LUNCH
14:00 – 15:30
SESSION 3
SESSION 4
Session 3 – Mixed
Session Chair: Haiying Li
Session 4 – Online
Session Chair: Przemyslaw Pawluk
#50 (Full)*
Modestino Matarazzo, Filippo Sciarrone, Barbara Martini and Roberto Caldelli
Helping or Not Helping: A System to Increase Students’ Critical Thinking. A Pilot Study
#12 (Poster)*
Unggi Lee, Yeil Jeong, Chohui Lee, Gyuri Byun, Yunseo Lee, Minji Kang and Minji Jeon
Llama-Polya: Instruction Tuning for Large Language Model based on Polya’s Problem-solving
#68 (Short)*
Francesco Orciuoli, Antonella Pascuzzo and Emanuele Damiano
An Agentic AI Architecture for Nutritional Education
#17 (Full)*
Daniel J. García-García, Alberto Matilla-Molina, Juan M. Dodero and Andres Muñoz
A Comparative Analysis of Agentic AI Frameworks for Developing Personalized Academic Advisors
#53 (Short)
Pauline Gniady
Impact of an AI-Based Adaptive and Immediate Feedback System in Asynchronous Distance Higher Education
#29 (Poster)*
Andreea-Cristina Rădăcină, Anca Daniela Ionita and Marin Litoiu
Empirical Aspects of Generative AI Usage in Education for UML Activity Diagrams Modeling
#69 (Short)*
Abdulmalik Adeyemo, Masato Kikuchi and Tadachika Ozono
Adaptive Research Student Mentoring via SRL-Aligned and Contestable AI Feedback
#30 (Full)*
Meriam Inoubli, Kaouther Boussema, Tristan Cazenave and Amina Zeghal
Multi-Agent Intelligent Tutoring with 4D Personalization and Hallucination Detection
15:30 – 16:00
COFFEE BREAK
16:00 – 17:30
SESSION 5
SESSION 6
Session 5 – Mixed
Session Chair: Ali Dewan
Session 6 – Online
Session Chair: Richard Hotte
#49 (Full)
Adrian Marius Dumitran, Radu Dita and Angela Liliana Dumitran
BacPrep: Lessons from Deploying an LLM-Based Bacalaureat Assessment Platform
#83 (Full)*
Ndeye Penda Ba, Richard Hotte, Khadidja Henni and Alassane Diop
From the Zone of Proximal Development to Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Towards an Adaptive Artificial Pedagogical Agency
#59 (Full)
Pierpaolo Vittorini, Vincenza Cofini, Ivan Letteri and Tamsir Jobe
The Pedagogical Sandbox: Pre-deployment Validation of an Agentic AI for Formative Assessment via Synthetic Student Interactions
#32(Full)*
Rabiaa Zitouni and Hala Bezine
Combining Fuzzy Graph Matching and KNN for Educational Assessment
#52(Full)
Gabriel Ștefan and Adrian Marius Dumitran
An Agentic Evaluation Architecture for Historical Bias Detection in Educational Textbooks
#43 (Full)*
Elzbieta Pustulka and Benjamin Kaiser
A Skeleton-Enhanced AI Tutor for SQL
19:00 – 22:00
RECEPTION – Ta pinakia
DAY 2: THURSDAY, JUNE 04
10:00 – 11:00
KEYNOTE SPEECH (PLENARY)
Session Chair: Ali Akber Dewan
Prof. Ig Ibert Bittencourt, (Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil)
“Positive Artificial Intelligence in Education (P-AIED): From Intelligent Tutoring Systems to Intelligent Caring Systems”
11:00 – 11:30
COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 13:15
SESSION 7
SESSION 8
Session 7 – Mixed
Session Chair: Zeynab Mohseni
Session 8 – Online
Session Chair: Filippo Sciarrone
#47(Full)
Ngoc Luyen Le, Marie-Hélène Abel and Bertrand Laforge
When Can We Trust Early Warnings? Leakage-Excluded Early Outcome Prediction from LMS Interaction Logs
#100(Short)*
Stefanie Alice Hofer and Katharina Roetzer
Proposing CAiT: a Socio-Technological Framework for AI Literacy in Early Childhood Education and its Implementation via Tangible Augmented Reality
#82 (Short)
Mateusz Kawulok and Michał Maćkowski
Agentic Tutoring for Visually Impaired Students: Concept Graphs and Adaptive Audio Tactile Algorithm Learning
#71(Full)*
Dmitry Shashkov, Dmitry Bartenev, Dmitry Molchanov, Oleg Sychev and Anton Anikin
Generating Program Tracing Learning Problems by Converting Program Cod
#97(Short)
Hicham Mazouzi, Claude Frasson and Hamdi Ben Abdessalem
Cognitive and Contextual Risk Assessment for Single-Pilot Operations: A Companion Agent for Monitoring Pilot State and Actions
#75(Poster)*
Daniela Cristea, Sima Ioan and Boboc Gabriel
A Tutoring Orchestrator Multi-Agent System for Autonomous Protein Folding
#6(Short)*
Robert Lindgren, Sandeep Kakar, Pratyusha Maiti, Karan Taneja and Ashok Goel
The Effect of a Virtual Teaching Assistant on a Community of Inquiry
#78(Short)*
Filippo Sciarrone, Vincenzo Tiziano
LUCE: A GAI-Based Chatbot for Helping People with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Cause-effect Process Managing
#102 (Poster)
Rareș-Alexandru Roșcan, Gabriel Petre, Marius Dumitran and Angela Dumitran
MuTSE: A Human-in-the-Loop Multi-use Text Simplification Evaluator
#91 (Short)*
Gaganpreet Jhajj, Fuhua Lin and Pin-Chuan Lin
Knowledge Graph Prerequisite Reasoning with Spiking Neural Networks for Adaptive Intelligent Tutoring
13:30 – 14:00
LUNCH
14:00 – 15:30
SESSION 9
SESSION 10
Session 9 – Mixed
Session Chair: Marco Temperini
Session 10 – Online
Session Chair: Claude Frasson
#5 (Short)
Przemyslaw Pawluk, Ali Riayde Jawad and Judi McCuaig
Sufler: Architecture of a Human-AI Hybrid Tutoring System for Just-in-Time Tutor Scaffolding
#22 (Full)*
Junghwan Kim, Kieun Park, Hyungwoo Song and Bongwon Suh
DEBSIM: Productive Friction for Learning Transfer in LLM-Based Argumentation Tutoring
#48(Short)*
Deok Yeop Kim and Woo Jin Lee
Detecting Wandering States for Providing Adaptive Intervention in Novice Programming through an LLM-Based Diagnostic Oracle
#89(Full)*
Edier Becerra, Daniel Triviño and Rubén Manrique
GRAFHIA: A narrative gamified LLM model for graphic design students
#23 (Short)*
Mohamed Lamgarraj, Céline Joiron, Aymeric Parant and Gilles Dequen
Understanding Perceived Assessment Difficulty: A Multimodal Analysis of Behavioral and Structural Factors
#98 (Full)
Amin Bonyad, Hamdi Ben Abdessalem and Claude Frasson
A Hybrid Cognitive–Agentic AI Architecture with a Coordinator for Virtual Pilot Assistance
15:30 – 16:00
COFFEE BREAK
16:00 – 17:30
SESSION 11
SESSION 12
Session 11 – Mixed
Session Chair: Filippo Sciarrone
Session 12 – Online
Session Chair: Ali Dewan
#85(Short)*
Yi Shang, Ziliang Wang, Jingyun Wang and Daner Sun
Situating Early Fraction Learning in Contextualized, Gamified and Scaffolded Environment: A Supermarket-Themed Educational Game
#76(Full)*
Haeun Choa and Dukhoi Koo
Scratching the Surface of Quantum: Context-Aware AI Tutoring for Quantum Computing Education
#16(Short)*
Jenny E Cartagena, E Fabián Rivera and Washington Raúl Fierro Saltos
Non-digital gamification and inclusive education: effects on the socialization and learning of students with Special Educational Needs in General Basic Education
#36 (Full)*
Raymond Morland, M. Ali Akber Dewan and Fuhua Lin
Scaling Deep Knowledge Tracing through Distributed Model Training
#54(Poster)*
Zhifei Hu and Alexandra I. Cristea
Graph-of-Thought Assessment: LLM-Extracted Concept Graphs with GNN-Based Scoring
#33(Full)*
Cunling Bian, Zimeng Zhai and Weigang Lu
From Classroom Narratives to Structured Pedagogical Events: A Cold-Start Comparative Study with Large Language Models
#46(Poster)
Zeynab Mohseni, Juan I. Asensio-Pérez, Miguel L. Bote-Lorenzo, Eduardo Gómez-Sánchez and Yannis Dimitriadis
A Terminological Framework for Bridging Student Modelling and Learning Design in AI-Supported Education
20:00 – 22:45
GALA DINNER – Michios Restaurant
THURSDAY, JUNE 13
DAY 3: FRIDAY, JUNE 05
10:00 – 11:00
KEYNOTE SPEECH (PLENARY)
Session Chair: Filippo Sciarrone
Prof. Marco Temperini (University of Rome, Italy)
From “Search as Learning” to “Converse for Learning”
11:00 – 11:30
COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 13:15
SESSION 13
SESSION 14
Session 13 – Mixed
Session Chair: Marco Temperini
Session 14 – Online
Session Chair: Meriam Inoubli
#39(Full)*
Luca Addiucci, Piergiorgio Bellezza and Marco Temperini
The Cognitive Profiling Agent: Mapping Assessment Tasks in Education to Bloom’s Taxonomy Levels
#101(Short)*
Eunsang Eom and Jong Kook Kim
Help-Seeking Profiles and Early Detection of At-Risk Students in AI-Assisted Programming: A Multi-Semester Learning Analytics Study 2
#103 (Full)
Houssem Chemingui
Process-mining-based orchestration of agentic AI for adaptive learning
#94(Short)*
Sunwoo Park and Hyeoncheol Kim
Same F1, Different Feedback: Measuring Diagnostic Coherence in Programming Error Classifiers
#56 (Full)*
Doru Constantin and Costel Bălcău
An Agentic Adaptive Intelligent Tutoring System with Confidence-Aware Student Modeling Using Hybrid CGACell Networks
#45(Short)*
Jing-Yuan Huang, Shyong Quin Yap, Michael Pin-Chuan Lin, Daniel Chang and Jeeho Ryoo
Towards Procedural Transparency in the Use of Large Language Models for Qualitative Analysis: A Systematic Review in Educational Research
#42(Poster)*
Simon West and Linda Yang
X-ELRA: Deterministic Runtime Governance for Trustworthy Agentic Adaptive Learning Systems
13:30 – 14:00
LUNCH
14:00 – 15:30
SESSION 15
SESSION 16
Session 15 – Online
Session Chair: Claude Frasson
Session 16 – Online
Session Chair: Ali Dewan
#66(Full)*
Jaewook Kim and Hyeoncheol Kim
Ensuring Reliability in Programming Knowledge Tracing: A Re-evaluation of Attention-augmented Models and Experimental Protocols
#19(Full)*
Nuha Alghamdi and Alexandra I. Cristea
ConvGuide-VR: a Conversational Guidance Framework for Procedural Learning in Immersive Virtual Reality
#35 (Full)*
Maroua Wissem Chanbi and Ange Adrienne Nyamen Tato
Proxy-Labeled Modeling of Confusion, Apathy, and Morale for Speech-Based Affective Learner State Estimation
#62(Short)*
Paulina Pui Yun Wong, Kristen Li, Renia Lopez-Ozieblo, Daniel Jiandong Shen, Paolo Mengoni, Li Zixin and Aru Nurgissayeva
Soundscapes in VR with Generative AI Avatars: Effects on Engagement and Learning Experience
#41(Full)*
Chrysovalantis D. Lagonidis, Georgios Kyprianou and Savvas A. Chatzichristofis
Public Trust in Artificial Intelligence in Greece and Cyprus: Attitudes, Governance, and AI Education
#38(Short)*
Ray Ting-Chun Wang
Learning Research Methods through Interacting with ChatGPT Avatars: A Preliminary Study
#13(Short)*
Jeongjin Lee and Hyeoncheol Kim
Meta-KT: Metacognitive-Aware Knowledge Tracing with Pedagogical Optimization
15:30 – 16:00
COFFEE BREAK
16:00 – 17:30
SESSION 17
SESSION 18
Session 17 – Mixed
Session Chair: Amin Bonyad
Session 18 – Online
Session Chair: Hamdi Ben Abdessalem
#9 (Short)
Charoula Angeli
Fading the Digital Scaffold: Internalizing Critical Thinking through Sequenced Socratic GPTs in Teacher Education
#4(Full)*
Ulrike Pado
Hybrid Evaluation of Tutor Dialogues
#24(Short)*
Wissal Essalah, Nicolas Delestre, Nicolas Malandain and Damien Olivier
Assisting Competency Framework Construction for a Competency-Based Approach Using ESCO-Based Sentence Embeddings
#81(Full)*
Mahmudul Islam Sajib, Jeevan Chapagain, Shanti Tamang, Panayiota Kendeou and Vasile Rus
Novices Code Comprehension Performance when Prompting LLMs for Assistance
#90(Short)*
Jinghan Zhou, Yan Yan, Zihan Liao, Jun Wang and Jennifer Chu
A Multi-Agent Framework for Lightweight LLM Integration in Classical Piano Education: Balancing Pedagogical Efficacy with Computational Efficiency
#84(Full)*
Shivesh Mohamed, Matevz Borjan Zorec and Farnaz Baksh
Towards Offline Conversational Tutors: Benchmarking Quantised Local Language Models with Retrieval Augmented Generation on Consumer GPUs
#51(Short)*
Yanru Fang and Haiying Li
Evaluating the Impact of ChatGPT-Based Text Simplification on ESL Students’ Reading Performance in Urban Planning Education
#60(Short)*
Ousmane Diallo, Haifa Nakouri and Hamdi Ben Abdessalem
SoSAFE: a multimodal approach for detecting content inappropriate for children on TikTok
#80(Short)*
Nuno Otero, Johanna Velander and Andrew Wallace
Designing for Reflective Engagement with Generative AI
#11(Short)*
Sergi Solera-Monforte, Pablo Arnau-González, Miguel Arevalillo-Herráez and David Arnau-Vera
Confidence Estimation Metric for Automated Rubric-Based Essay Grading with Large Language Models
17:30 – 18:00
ITS2026 AWARDS AND CLOSING SESSION (PLENARY)
Notes:
1. Full papers: 30 minutes (25′ of presentation plus 5′ Q&A)
Short papers: 20 minutes (15′ of presentation plus 5′ Q&A)
Posters: 15 minutes (10′ of presentation plus 5′ Q&A)
2. All times are in EEST (Eastern European Time, UTC+3)
3. Papers marked with an asterisk * are presented online
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