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Hunter McNichols
dblp:347/2051
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5ranked-venue papers
3as first author
5since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0002-0129-260XORCID · corroborated
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Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 5 · 3 first-author · 5 since 2021Human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing · 3 · 2 first-author · 3 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | A Multi-agent Approach to Validate and Refine LLM-Generated Personalized Math Problems
Fareya Ikram, Nischal Ashok Kumar, Junyang Lu, Hunter McNichols, Candace A. Walkington, Neil T. Heffernan, Andrew S. Lan |
AIED (1) | 4 |
| 2026 | The StudyChat Dataset: Analyzing Student Dialogues With ChatGPT in an Artificial Intelligence CourseabstractThe widespread availability of large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, has significantly impacted education, raising both opportunities and challenges. Students can frequently interact with LLM-powered, interactive learning tools, but their usage patterns need to be observed and understood. We introduce StudyChat, a publicly available dataset capturing real-world student interactions with an LLM-powered tutoring chatbot in a semester-long, university-level artificial intelligence (AI) course. We deploy a web application that replicates ChatGPT’s core functionalities, and use it to log student interactions with the LLM while working on programming assignments. We collect 16,851 interactions, which we annotate using a dialogue act labeling schema inspired by observed interaction patterns and prior research. We analyze these interactions, highlight usage trends, and analyze how specific student behavior correlates with their course outcome. We find that students who prompt LLMs for conceptual understanding and coding help tend to perform better on assignments and exams. Moreover, students who use LLMs to write reports and circumvent assignment learning objectives have lower outcomes on exams than others. StudyChat serves as a shared resource to facilitate further research on the evolving role of LLMs in education. Hunter McNichols, Fareya Ikram, Andrew S. Lan |
LAK | 1 |
| 2024 | Can Large Language Models Replicate ITS Feedback on Open-Ended Math Questions?
Hunter McNichols, Jaewook Lee 0006, Stephen Fancsali, Steven Ritter 0001, Andrew S. Lan |
EDM | 1 |
| 2023 | Algebra Error Classification with Large Language Models
Hunter McNichols, Mengxue Zhang, Andrew S. Lan |
AIED | 1 |
| 2023 | A Conceptual Model for End-to-End Causal Discovery in Knowledge Tracing
Nischal Ashok Kumar, Wanyong Feng, Jaewook Lee 0006, Hunter McNichols, Aritra Ghosh 0001, Andrew S. Lan |
EDM | 4 |