Group members Wendy Kellogg, Manager Catalina Danis Jason Ellis Tom Erickson Rob Farrell Christine Halverson

Rob Farrell

Robert (Rob) Farrell is a research staff member in the Learning Technologies department at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, N.Y.

Before coming to the Social Computing Group, he was theproject leader of the team that developed Dynamic Learning Experience. Rob received his M.S. and M. Phil degrees in Computer Science from Yale University and his B.S. in Mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University. He is a member of the Institute for Advanced Learning, a center for learning research at IBM. He has over 20 years of experience in the development of software for education, training, and workplace performance improvement. Mr. Farrell is the author of two books and over forty articles.

Contact information:
Email: robfarr@us.ibm.com
Internal Address: 3N-B22, Hawthorne
External Address:
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,
19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 USA

Publications: (Also see group papers)

Thomas, John C. and Farrell, R.G. “HCI Techniques from Idea to Deployment: A Case Study for a Dynamic Learning Environment”. CHI 2006.

Li, Ying, Dorai, C., and Farrell, R.G. “Creating MAGIC: A aystem for generating learning object metadata for instructional content”, ACM Multimedia Conference 2005.

Farrell, R. Liburd, Soyini, and Thomas, J. (2004) “Dynamic Assembly of Learning Objects”, Proceedings of the 14th World-Wide Web conference (WWW ’04) New York City, NY.

Wu, A., Farell, R., & Singley, M. (2002). Scaffolding group learning in a collaborative network environment. In G. Stahl, Computer support for collaborative learning: foundations for a CSCL community, Proceedings of CSCL 2002, Boulder, Collorado, (pp. 245-254), USA.

Gordin, D.N., Farrell, R.(2001) Visualizing the patent document collection as a graph  IEEE Conference on Information Visualization InfoViz ‘2001.

Farrell, R. , Fairweather, P., & Synder, K.(2001)  Summarization of Discussion Groups. ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management CIKM ‘2001.

Singley, M.K., Singh, M., Fairweather, P., Farrell, R, and Swerling, S (2000) . Algebra Jam: Supporting Teamwork and Managing Roles in a Collaborative Learning Environment The ACM Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW ‘2000) Philadelphia, PA. 145 - 154

Farrell, R. Fairweather, P., and Breimer, E. (2000) A Task-based Architecture for Application-Aware Adjuncts ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI ‘2000).

Sigman, E., Rosenstein, M., and Farrell, R. (1998) SiteSeer: An Interactive Treeviewer for Visualizing Web Activity, September 1-4, 1998. Sheffield, UK. (HCI ’98)  

Farrell, R. and Lefkowitz, L. (1995) “Supporting Development of On-line Task Guidance for Software System Users.” In Facilitating the Development and Use of Interactive Learning Environments, Bloom & Loftin, (Eds.).  

Muller, M.J., Farrell, R., Cebulka, K.D., and Smith, J.G. (1992) “Issues in the Usability of Time-Varying Multimedia.” In Multimedia Interface Design, Blattner & Dannenberg (Eds.)

Farrell, R. (1988) “Facilitating Self-Education by Questioning Assumptive Reasoning,” Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-88).

Farrell, R. (1987) “Intelligent Case Selection and Presentation,” Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-87).
Anderson, J. R., Boyle, C. F., Farrell, R., & Reiser, B. J. (1987). Cognitive principles in the design of computer tutors. In P. Morris (Ed.), Modelling Cognition, Wiley.

Brownston, L., Farrell, R., Kant, E. and Martin, N. (1985) Programming Expert Systems in OPS5. Addison-Wesley.

Farrell, R., Anderson, J., and Reiser, B.J. (1984)  “An Interactive Computer-based Tutor for LISP,” Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-84).

Farrell, R., Anderson, J. R., & Reiser, B. J. (1984). Interactive student modelling in a computer-based LISP tutor. Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Cognitive Science Meetings, 252-255.

Pirolli, P.L., Anderson, J.R., and Farrell, R. (1984) “Learning to Program Recursion.” In The Nature of Expertise, Chi, Farr, & Glaser, (Eds.).

Anderson, J.R., Farrell, R., and Sauers, R. (1984) “Learning to Program in LISP.” Cognitive Science, 8, 87-129.