Heather Pon-Barry Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Science Mount Holyoke College Email:  ponbarry at mtholyoke.edu Office:  Clapp 226

2021

• Spoken Language Interaction with Robots: Recommendations for Future Research
  Matthew Marge, Carol Espy-Wilson, Nigel G. Ward, Abeer Alwan, Yoav Artzi, Mohit Bansal, Gil Blankenship, Joyce Chai, Hal Daumé, Debadeepta Dey, Mary Harper, Thomas Howard, Casey Kennington, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová, Dinesh Manocha, Cynthia Matuszek, Ross Mead, Raymond Mooney, Roger K. Moore, Mari Ostendorf, Heather Pon-Barry, Alexander I. Rudnicky, Matthias Scheutz, Robert St. Amant, Tong Sun, Stefanie Tellex, David Traum, Zhou Yu.
  Computer Speech & Language, Vol 71, 2022, 101255.
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• Effects of Adapting to User Pitch on Rapport Perception, Behavior, and State with a Social Robotic Learning Companion
  Nichola Lubold, Erin Walker, and Heather Pon-Barry.
  User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 31: 35-73, 2021.
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2019

• Comfort with Robots Influences Rapport with a Social, Entraining Teachable Robot
  Nichola Lubold, Erin Walker, Heather Pon-Barry, and Amy Ogan.
  In Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), June 2019.
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• A Flexible Curriculum for Promoting Inclusion through Peer Mentorship
  Heather Pon-Barry, Audrey St. John, Becky Wai-Ling Packard, and Barbara Rotundo.
  In Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '19), February 2019.
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2018

• Turn-Taking Strategies for Human-Robot Peer-Learning Dialogue
  Ranjini Das and Heather Pon-Barry.
  In Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), July 2018.
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• Automated Pitch Convergence Improves Learning in a Social, Teachable Robot for Middle School Mathematics
  Nichola Lubold, Erin Walker, Heather Pon-Barry, and Amy Ogan.
  In Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), June 2018.
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• Using Iterative Design to Create Efficacy-Building Social Experiences with a Teachable Robot
  Nichola Lubold, Erin Walker, Heather Pon-Barry, Yuliana Flores, and Amy Ogan.
  In Proceedings of the International Conference for the Learning Sciences (ICLS), June 2018.
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• Dyadic Stance in Natural Language Communication with a Teachable Robot
  Tricia Chaffey, Hyeji Kim, Emilia Nobrega, Nichola Lubold, and Heather Pon-Barry.
  In HRI '18 Companion: 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 85–86, March 2018.
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2017

• Addressing the CS Capacity Challenge by Improving Undergraduate Peer Mentoring
  Heather Pon-Barry, Audrey St. John, Becky Wai-Ling Packard, and Chris Stephenson.
  ACM Inroads, 8(3): 43–47, 2017. DOI: 10.1145/3123732
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• Expanding Capacity and Promoting Inclusion in Introductory Computer Science: A Focus on Near-Peer Mentor Preparation and Code Review
  Heather Pon-Barry, Becky Wai-Ling Packard, and Audrey St. John.
  Computer Science Education, 27(1): 54–77, 2017. DOI: 10.1080/08993408.2017.1333270
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• Scaling Introductory Courses Using Undergraduate Teaching Assistants
  Jeffrey Forbes, David Malan, Heather Pon-Barry, Stuart Reges, and Mehran Sahami.
  In Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) Technical Symposium, March 2017.
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2016

• Effects of Voice-Adaptation and Social Dialogue on Perceptions of a Robotic Learning Companion
  Nichola Lubold, Erin Walker, and Heather Pon-Barry.
  In Proceedings of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), March 2016.
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• Megas and Gigas Educate (MaGE): A Curricular Peer Mentoring Program
  Heather Pon-Barry, Audrey St. John, Becky Wai-Ling Packard, and Barbara Rotundo.
  In Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) Technical Symposium, March 2016.
  [ Abstract | Poster ]

2015

• Naturalness and Rapport in a Pitch Adaptive Learning Companion
  Nichola Lubold, Heather Pon-Barry, and Erin Walker.
  In Proceedings of the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, December 2015.
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• Disordered Speech Disrupts Conversational Entrainment: A Study of Acoustic-Prosodic Entrainment and Communicative Success in Populations with Communication Challenges
  Stephanie A. Borrie, Nichola Lubold, and Heather Pon-Barry.
  In Frontiers in Psychology, 6:1187, 2015, DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01187.
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• You Should (And Can) Keep Diversity in Sharp Focus During the Enrollment Surge
  Lisa Kaczmarczyk, Alvaro Monge, Jeff Offutt, Heather Pon-Barry, and Suzanne Westbrook.
  In Proceedings of RESPECT 2015 (Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology), August 2015.
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• Relating Entrainment, Grounding, and Topic of Discussion in Collaborative Learning Dialogues
  Nichola Lubold, Erin Walker, and Heather Pon-Barry.
  In Proceedings of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, June 2015.
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2014

• A Comparison of Acoustic-Prosodic Entrainment in Face-to-face and Remote Collaborative Learning Dialogues
  Nichola Lubold and Heather Pon-Barry.
  In Proceedings of the IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, December 2014.
  [ PDF ] Best Poster Presentation Award
• Acoustic-Prosodic Entrainment and Rapport in Collaborative Learning Dialogues
  Nichola Lubold and Heather Pon-Barry.
  In Proceedings of the ICMI Workshop on Multimodal Learning Analytics, November 2014.
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• Discourse Analysis of User Forums in an Online Weight Loss Application
  Lydia Manikonda, Heather Pon-Barry, Subbarao Kambhampati, Eric Heckler, and David McDonald.
  In Proceedings of the ACL Joint Workshop on Social Dynamics and Personal Attributes, June 2014.
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• Finding Eyewitness Tweets During Crises
  Fred Morstatter, Nichola Lubold, Heather Pon-Barry, Jurgen Pfeffer, and Huan Liu.
  In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Language Technology and Computational Social Science, June 2014.
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• Eliciting and Annotating Uncertainty in Spoken Language
  Heather Pon-Barry, Stuart Shieber and Nicholas Longenbaugh.
  In Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, May 2014.
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• Using Ambiguous Handwritten Digits to Induce Uncertainty
  Heather Pon-Barry.
  In Proceedings of 5th International Workshop on Emotion, Social Signals, Sentiment, and Linked Open Data, May 2014.
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• Challenges for Robust Prosody-based Affect Recognition
  Heather Pon-Barry and Arun Reddy Nelakurthi.
  In Proceedings of Speech Prosody, May 2014.
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2012

• Inferring Speaker Affect in Spoken Natural Language Communication
  Heather Roberta Pon-Barry.
  Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University, November 2012.
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2011

• Recognizing Uncertainty in Speech
  Heather Pon-Barry and Stuart M. Shieber.
  EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2011(251753), 2011.
  Special Issue on Emotion and Mental State Recognition from Speech.
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2010

• Assessing Self-awareness and Transparency when Classifying a Speaker's Level of Certainty
  Heather Pon-Barry and Stuart Shieber.
  Proceedings of Speech Prosody, May 2010.
  [ PDF | Poster ]

2009

• Identifying Uncertain Words within an Utterance via Prosodic Features
  Heather Pon-Barry and Stuart Shieber.
  Proceedings of Interspeech, pp. 1579–1582, September 2009.
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• The Importance of Sub-utterance Prosody in Predicting Level of Certainty
  Heather Pon-Barry and Stuart Shieber.
  Proceedings of NAACL HLT: Short Papers, pp. 105–108, June 2009.
  [ PDF | Poster ]
• Interactive Question Answering and Constraint Relaxation in Spoken Dialogue Systems
  Sebastian Varges, Fuliang Weng, and Heather Pon-Barry.
  Natural Language Engineering, 15(1):9–30, 2009.
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2008

• Prosodic Manifestations of Confidence and Uncertainty in Spoken Language
  Heather Pon-Barry.
  Proceedings of Interspeech, pp. 74–77, September 2008.
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2006

• Evaluation of Content Presentation Strategies for an In-car Spoken Dialogue System
  Heather Pon-Barry, Fuliang Weng, and Sebastian Varges.
  Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Interspeech, pp. 1930–1933, 2006.
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• CHAT: A Conversational Helper for Automotive Tasks
  Fuliang Weng, Sebastian Varges, Badri Raghunathan, Florin Ratiu, Heather Pon-Barry, Brian Lathrop, et al.
  Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Interspeech, pp. 1061–1064, 2006.
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• Interactive Question Answering and Constraint Relaxation in Spoken Dialogue Systems
  Sebastian Varges, Fuliang Weng, and Heather Pon-Barry.
  Proceedings of the 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, pp. 28–35, 2006.
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• Responding to Student Uncertainty in Spoken Tutorial Dialogue Systems
  Heather Pon-Barry, Karl Schultz, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, Brady Clark, and Stanley Peters.
  International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 16:171–194, 2006.
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2005

• Contextualizing Reflective Dialogue in a Spoken Conversational Tutor
  Heather Pon-Barry, Karl Schultz, Brady Clark, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, Stanley Peters, and David Haley.
  Journal of Educational Technology and Society, 8(4):42–51, 2005.
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• A General Purpose Architecture for Intelligent Tutoring Systems
  Brady Clark, Oliver Lemon, Alexander Gruenstein, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, John Fry, Stanley Peters, Heather Pon-Barry, Karl Schultz, Zack Thomsen-Gray, and Pucktada Treeratpituk.
  In Natural, Intelligent and Effective Interaction in Multimodal Dialogue Systems, edited by Niels Ole Bernsen, Laila Dybkjaer, and Jan van Kuppevelt, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2005.
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2004

• Advantages of Spoken Language in Dialogue-based Tutoring Systems
  Heather Pon-Barry, Brady Clark, Karl Schultz, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, and Stanley Peters.
  Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), pp. 390–400, 2004.
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• Evaluating the effectiveness of SCoT: a spoken conversational tutor
  Heather Pon-Barry, Brady Clark, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, Karl Schultz, and Stanley Peters.
  Proceedings of the ITS Workshop on Dialog-based Intelligent Tutoring Systems, pp. 23–32, 2004.
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• Contextualizing Learning in a Reflective Conversational Tutor
  Heather Pon-Barry, Brady Clark, Karl Schultz, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, and Stanley Peters.
  Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, pp. 236–240, 2004.
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• Intelligent Systems for Training Damage Control Assistants
  Stanley Peters, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, Brady Clark, Heather Pon-Barry, Karl Schultz.
  Proceedings of I/ITSEC 2004, Orlando, Florida, 2004.
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• In search of Bloom's missing sigma: Adding the conversational intelligence of human tutors to an intelligent tutoring system
  Heather Pon-Barry.
  Unpublished M.S. Thesis, Stanford University, 2004.
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2003

• A Scalable, Reusable Spoken Conversational Tutor: SCoT
  Karl Schultz, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, Brady Clark, Stanley Peters, Heather Pon-Barry, and Pucktada Treeratpituk.
  Proceedings of the AIED Workshop on Tutorial Dialogue Systems: With a View Towards the Classroom, pp. 367–377, 2003.
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2002

• A General Purpose Architecture for Intelligent Tutoring Systems
  Brady Clark, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, Oliver Lemon, Stanley Peters, Heather Pon-Barry, Zack Thomsen-Gray, and Pucktada Treeratpituk.
  Proceedings of the International CLASS Workshop on Natural, Intelligent and Effective Interaction in Multimodal Dialogue Systems, 2002.
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• Model-Based Reasoning for Tutorial Dialogue in Shipboard Damage Control
  Elizabeth Owen Bratt, Brady Clark, Zack Thomsen-Gray, Stanley Peters, Pucktada Treeratpituk, Heather Pon-Barry, Karl Schultz, David C. Wilkins, and David Fried.
  Proceedings of the ITS Workshop on Model Based Systems and Qualitative Reasoning for Intelligent Tutoring Systems, pp. 63–69, 2002.
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2001

• A Multimodal Intelligent Tutoring System for Shipboard Damage Control
  Brady Clark, John Fry, Matt Ginzton, Stanley Peters, Heather Pon-Barry, and Zack Thomsen-Gray.
  Proceedings of the International Workshop on Information Presentation and Multimodal Dialogue, pp. 121–125, 2001.
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• Automated Tutoring Dialogues for Training in Shipboard Damage Control
  John Fry, Matt Ginzton, Stanley Peters, Brady Clark, and Heather Pon-Barry.
  Proceedings of the 2nd SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, 2001.
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