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Shulan Lu

Researcher at Texas A&M University–Commerce

Publications -  30
Citations -  857

Shulan Lu is an academic researcher from Texas A&M University–Commerce. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cognition & Eye tracking. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 29 publications receiving 759 citations. Previous affiliations of Shulan Lu include Texas A&M University & University of Memphis.

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AutoTutor: a tutor with dialogue in natural language.

TL;DR: The design was inspired by explanation-based constructivist theories of learning, intelligent tutoring systems that adaptively respond to student knowledge, and empirical research on dialogue patterns in tutorial discourse.
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Question asking and eye tracking during cognitive disequilibrium: comprehending illustrated texts on devices when the devices break down.

TL;DR: As was predicted, deep comprehenders asked better questions and fixated on device components that explained the malfunction and the occurrence and timing of convergence on faults, causal reasoning, and other cognitive processes were traced.
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Social Cues in Animated Conversational Agents

TL;DR: This article found that participants preferred natural agents with natural voices, as predicted by the social-cue hypothesis, although female agents with male voices formed an exception, this was explained by a stereotype effect.
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Embodied conversational agents as conversational partners

TL;DR: In this paper, eye tracking studies investigated how humans distribute eye gaze towards conversational agents in complex tutoring systems, finding that the agent receiving the most attention throughout the interaction, even when display size was statistically controlled.
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An Empirical and Computational Investigation of Perceiving and Remembering Event Temporal Relations

TL;DR: This work investigates the roles of these three types of event boundaries in constructing event temporal relations, and shows that people make use of the overlap between events and take into account the ends and beginnings, but they weight ends more than beginnings.