The Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT) as a Tool for Human Factors Professionals
Anne M. Sinatra, Benjamin Goldberg, Robert A. Sottilare · Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting · 2014
The Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT) is an open-source domain-independent intelligent tutoring system (ITS) framework. It provides the tools and capabilities to design a complete ITS, manage student instruction, and serve as a testbed for experimentation and analysis. GIFT was developed to provide a cost-effective and efficient means for developing ITSs that have interchangeable parts and can be reused. Additionally, GIFT provides the ability for human factors professionals to develop and run complete experiments in a computer-based environment. This demonstration will provide an introduction to GIFT, along with the motivation behind its design. Further, a demonstration of the tools that are useful to human factors practitioners and psychologists will be provided, and examples of courses that have been developed using GIFT will be shown.