User profiles for Zak Risha

Zak Risha

University of Pittsburgh
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Let's talk it out: A chatbot for effective study habit behavioral change

X Tian, Z Risha, I Ahmed… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Research has shown study habits and skills to be correlated with academic success, calling
for a deeper comprehension of these behaviors and processes to design effective …

Soliloquy: Fostering poetry comprehension using an interactive think-aloud visualization

Z Risha, D Sonmez Unal, E Walker - … of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Complex texts like poetry are distinct from informative texts, requiring additional subprocesses
to decode and interpret. Approaching a poem without knowledge of these cognitive …

Proposing a role based framework for data literacy

Z Risha, A Mallavarapu - … of the 16th International Conference of the …, 2022 - par.nsf.gov
Efforts to cultivate critical data literacies in youth calls for further research that emphasizes
supporting collaboration in team environments. We propose a role-based framework of four …

Stepwise help and scaffolding for java code tracing problems with an interactive trace table

Z Risha, J Barria-Pineda, K Akhuseyinoglu… - Proceedings of the 21st …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we describe the integration of a step-by-step interactive trace table into an
existing practice system for introductory Java programming. These autogenerated trace …

The Death of Renaissance Scientist

Z Risha, Y Lin, E Leahey, L Wu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.14518, 2023 - arxiv.org
Scholars are often categorized into two types: hedgehogs (specialists), who focus on working
within a specific research field, and foxes (generalists), who actively contribute to a variety …

Replacing the Renaissance Man: Are Teams More than the Sum of Their Parts?

Z Risha, Y Lin, E Leahey, L Wu - arXiv e-prints, 2023 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
As science becomes more complex, the idea of assembling diverse teams of specialists--much
like a blacksmith, a mason, and a carpenter coming together to form a Leonardo da Vinci-…

Learning to love the lor: implementing an internal learning object repository at a large national organization

M Knapp, Z Risha, R Gatewood… - Medical reference …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This article is a case study that discusses the development and implementation of an internal
learning object repository (LOR) for a large national organization with a distributed working …

Making it smart: Converting static code into an interactive trace table

Z Risha, P Brusilovsky - Proceedings of Sixth SPLICE Workshop, 2020 - par.nsf.gov
This paper introduces a new type of smart learning content, an automatically generated trace
table, that can easily integrate and adapt to existing curriculum and learning systems for …

Interactive Close Reading

ZJ Risha - 2017 - vtechworks.lib.vt.edu
Over the past two decades, the readership of poetry has declined to the point that the art
form is seldom engaged with by the public. I argue that reading poetry requires a skillset that …

SelfCode: An Annotated Corpus and a Model for Automated Assessment of Self-explanation during Source Code Comprehension

J Chapagain, Z Risha, R Banjade, P Oli… - The International …, 2023 - journals.flvc.org
The ability to automatically assess learners' activities is the key to user modeling and
personalization in adaptive educational systems.