PAWS

About PAWS

Personalized Adaptive Web Systems Lab was established in 2004 with support from National Science Foundation and the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. The goal of the PAWS Lab is development and evaluation of innovative user- and group-adaptive Web-based technologies, systems, and architectures. The Lab currently explores a range of user modeling, adaptation and personalization technologies. The work of the Lab is supported by NSF and DARPA funding.

Most Recent News

• Peter Brusilovsky receives 2023 Distinguished Research Award as a leader in the field of "cutting edge research".(details)
• Peter Brusilovsky receives Amazon Research Award (details)
• Chun-Hua "Ronald" Tsai receives best paper award at ACM Learning at Scale 2022 (details)
• Peter Brusilovsky receives an NIH grant to work on the personalized treatment of aphasia (details)
• PAWS team receives Best Demo Award at ACM RecSys 2021 (details)
• Kamil Akhuseyinoglu and Peter Brusilovsky win Best Paper Award at UMAP 2021 (details)
• Chun-Hua "Ronald" Tsai starts as a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha in Fall 2021! (details)
• Sherry Sahebi receives NSF CAREER award! (details)
• Rosta Farzan is appointed Associate Dean for diversity, equity and inclusion at the School of Computing and Information (details)
• Chun-Hua Tsai defends his PhD Thesis and joins Penn State as Assistant Research Professor (details)
• Hung Chau wins the Best Paper award at the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery Learning at Scale Conference!(details)
• Prof. Peter Brusilovsky is awarded AMiner Most Influential Scholar Award in recognition of his contributions to the field of Recommender System by AMiner (details)
• Two PAWS graduates' papers were short-listed for the best paper award at EC-TEL 2018 (details)
• Peter Brusilovsky awarded NSF grant under the program Cyberlearn And Future Learn Tech. (details)
• Roya Hosseini defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Program Construction Examples in Computer Science Education: From Static Text to Adaptive and Engaging Learning Technology'.(details)
• Yun Huang defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Learner Modeling for Integration Skills in Programming' (details)
• PAWS Lab scores thrice at IUI 2018 (details)

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Check Demos of some of PAWS Lab systems Tools

• Programming Construction Examples (2017) with Self Explanations
• Grapevine (2021) - an interactive recommender system for finding research advisors
• Mastery Grids For Java (2017) - a personalized Java Programming Practice System
• Mastery Grids For Python (2017) - a personalized Python Programming Practice System

Try PAWS Lab systems Tools at our Community Portal

Go to Knowledge Tree portal and create a trial account to try our tools.

If you are a researcher and would like to quickly try our adaptation tools, create the trial account (link above) and proceed here.

PAWS Lab Contact Information

Information Sciences Building, Rm. 2A04
135 North Bellefield Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Tel: +1(412)624-9437