Return to the homepage
  • Library
  • UC Online
  • News
  • Events
  • Maps
  • Staff
  • Work at UC
  • 150 Years
  • Study
    • Study
      • Courses and qualifications
      • Subjects
      • Online learning
      • Arts
      • Business
      • Digital Screen
      • Education
      • Engineering
      • Health
      • Law
      • Science
      • All departments
      • Scholarships
      • Examinations
      • Graduation
      • Graduate School
      • Key dates
      • Publications
      • Study abroad and exchanges
      • Work-Integrated Learning
      • Academic support
      • Special consideration
      • Summer School
      • Transition Programmes
      • Quick Links
      • LEARN
      • Logins
      • Timetables
      • Library
      • Scholarships
      • Transcripts
      • Grading
  • Enrol
    • Enrol at UC
      • Enrolment process
      • Enrolment and Course Dates
      • Admission and University Entrance
      • Identity and citizenship verification
      • International student enrolment
      • PhD and doctoral degree applications
      • Manage your study
      • Fees and funding
      • Student Agreement
      • Change your enrolment
      • Update your contact details
      • Contact Student Services
      • Quick Links
      • Enrol now with myUC
      • Re-enrol now with myUC
      • Qualifications and courses
      • Scholarships
      • Academic Support
      • Transcripts
  • Research
    • Research
      • Become a research student
      • Find a supervisor
      • Support for Researchers
      • Māori Research Partnerships
      • Research Impact
      • Research Institutes and Centres
      • Research specialties
      • Facilities and equipment
      • IP Commercialisation
      • Innovation Jumpstart
      • Ethics Approval
      • UC Research Awards
      • Contact us
      • Quick Links
      • Find an expert
      • Find a supervisor
      • Jobs at UC
      • Ethics Approval
      • Postgraduate forms
      • Library (research)
  • Life
    • Life
      • The campus
      • Facilities
      • Getting around
      • Student life
      • Accommodation
      • Support services
      • Know The Code
      • Sustainability Office
      • UC Students' Association (UCSA)
      • CCR
      • Golden Key
      • Health, safety and wellbeing
      • Life in CHCH
      • Life in NZ
      • Get active
      • Canterbury Card
      • Quick Links
      • UCGo
      • Maps
      • Parking
      • Health Centre
      • UC RecCentre
      • Student events
      • Clubs and societies
  • Support services
    • Support services
      • Finding support
      • Need to talk?
      • Health Services
      • Academic support
      • Assistive technology
      • Accessibility
      • Financial assistance
      • Academic grievances
      • Equity and diversity
      • Parents and whānau
      • Job and careers advice
      • New student support
      • Current student support
      • Postgraduate student support
      • High school student support
      • Adult student support
      • International student support
      • LGBTQI student support
      • Māori student support
      • Pasifika student support
      • Onsite services
      • Quick Links
      • In an emergency
      • Security
      • Raise a concern
      • IT Services
      • Academic Skills Centre
      • Library (support)
      • Contacts
      • Wellbeing Hub
  • Engage
    • Engage
      • Alumni
      • Business and industry
      • Canterbury University Press
      • Communications and Engagement
      • Community partnerships
      • External exam invigilation
      • Find an expert or consultant
      • Giving to UC
      • International partnerships
      • Knowledge Commons
      • News
      • School resources
      • Work at UC
      • Work placements
      • Quick Links
      • Donate to UC
      • Contact UC
      • Current vacancies
      • Erskine Fellowship
      • News
      • Public events
      • Liaison Office
  • About
    • About
      • What is special about UC
      • UC7
      • Ako - Learning & Teaching
      • Governance
      • Leadership
      • Health and Safety
      • Sustainability Hub
      • People and Culture
      • Asset Planning and Delivery
      • History
      • Information and Records Management
      • Ngā Uara | Our Values
      • Contacts
  • Logins
    • Logins
      • LEARN
      • Zoom
      • Student email
      • Staff email
      • myUC
      • My Timetable
      • Canterbury Card Account
      • My Library Account
      • OneDrive
      • UC CareerHub
      • UC Services Portal
      • Password Reset
      • UCGO
      • ourUC
      • Staff logins
      • More logins
Skip to main content
uc-research-profile

Use the Tab and Up, Down arrow keys to select menu items.

  • UC Research Profile
  • Search
  • Browse
    • Subject areas and disciplines
    • Colleges and departments
  • Administration
    • Email UC Research Profile Administrator
    • Update your UC Research Profile page in Profiler (Staff Only)
  • Quick Links
    • Research at UC

Dr Moffat Mathews

Contact

Department: Faculty of Engineering ; Computer Science and Software Engineering

Email: moffat.mathews@canterbury.ac.nz

Phone Number: +64 3 369 3999 ext. null

Office: Jack Erskine 213

Language: English

About
Research / Creative works
Networks
Methods & Equipment

Fields of Research

  • Intelligent Educational Systems
  • Student modelling
  • Modelling pedagogical strategies
  • Domain/knowledge/ontological modelling
  • Software Engineering
  • Software Engineering Education

Researcher Summary

I am working in the area of Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED). This means that I am interested in AI, Education (especially teaching strategies), Psychology (particularly to do with learning and behaviour), and of course Computer Science & Software Engineering.

Our research group focuses on building intelligent and adaptive educational systems – systems that allow the student to explore and learn while receiving customised guidance. These systems are intelligent enough to

   * know about a particular domain semantically and syntactically (domain modelling),
   * know and reason about each student (student modelling) using their current knowledge on each of the
     domain concepts and the history of their performance in the system,
   * provide adaptive (customised) guidance to each student,
   * allow the student to see a visualisation of their student model, and
   * optionally allow the student to negotiate their student model (argue for a change in their student model).
     A change in their student model would lead to different adaptations.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Sciences: Computer Science; Intelligent Computer Tutoring; Software Engineering and Visualisation
  • Education: Educational Innovation; Pedagogy; Technology Education
  • Engineering and Technology: Computer & Software Engineering

Resources

  • Staff webpage
  • ICTG (Research Group) webpage

Prizes and Awards

  • Best paper presentation award at the New Zealand Computer Science Research Students Conference 2007 for the paper: "Investigating the Effectiveness of Problem Templates on Learning in Intelligent Tutoring Systems" ( 2007 )
  • Graduate student community service award ( 2008 - present )
  • I was awarded the IET International Write Around the World scholarship for the best paper: "Intelligent Learning: The Future of Education". This paper described my research within my research field to the layperson. ( 2007 )
  • Received the TEC Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship to complete my PhD. ( 2007 - 2012)

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

  • Morales-Trujillo ME., Galster M., Gilson F. and Mathews M. (2021) A Three-Year Study on Peer Evaluation in a Software Engineering Project Course. IEEE Transactions on Education : 1-10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TE.2021.3123682. (Journal Articles)
  • Chen X., Mitrovic A. and Mathews M. (2020) Learning from Worked Examples, Erroneous Examples, and Problem Solving: Toward Adaptive Selection of Learning Activities. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies 13(1): 135-149. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TLT.2019.2896080. (Journal Articles)
  • Gilson F., Morales M. and Mathews M. (2020) How Junior Developers Deal with Their Technical Debt? In Proc. of 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt): 51-61. ACM. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3387906.3388624. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Chen X., Mitrovic A. and Mathews M. (2019) Investigating the Effect of Agency on Learning from Worked Examples, Erroneous Examples and Problem Solving. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education 29(3): 396-424. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40593-019-00179-x. (Journal Articles)
  • Mitrovic A., Chen X. and Mathews M. (2018) Exploring Adaptive Strategies for Providing Learning Activities. In Mitrovic A; Zhang J; Chen L; Chin D (Eds). Proceedings UMAP '18: 139-145. New York: ACM. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3209219.3209221. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Chen X., Mitrovic A. and Mathews M. (2017) Does Adaptive Provision of Learning Activities Improve Learning in SQL-Tutor? In Andre E; Baker R; Hu X; Rodrigo M; du Boulay B (Eds). Springer LNAI 10331 LNAI 10331: 476-479. Springer. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Chen X., Mitrovic A. and Mathews M. (2017) How much Learning Support should be provided to novices and advanced students? In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT): 39-43. IEEE Computer Society. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2017.43. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Hayashi Y., Mathews M. and Supnithi T. (2017) Message from the chairs. In ICCE 2017 - 25th International Conference on Computers in Education: Technology and Innovation: Computer-Based Educational Systems for the 21st Century, Workshop Proceedings: i. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Hayashi Y; Mathews M; Supnithi T; Chen W; Yang J-C; MOHD AYUB AF; Wong SL; Mitrovic A (Ed.) (2017) Workshop Proceedings, International Conference on Computers in Education 2017. Taiwan: Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education. (Edited Volumes)
  • Mitrovic A., Dimitrova V., Lau L., Weerasinghe A. and Mathews M. (2017) Supporting Constructive Video-based Learning: Requirements Elicitation from Exploratory Studies. In Andre E; Baker R; Hu X; Rodrigo M; du Boulay B (Eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10331: 224-237. Cham: Springer Verlag. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61425-0_19. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Mitrovic T. and Mathews M. (2017) Message from local organizing committee. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2017 - Main Conference Proceedings. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Armstrong E., Mathews M. and Churcher N. (2016) Towards a social student model in a software engineering group project course. In Main Conference Proceedings ICCE 2016: 82-84. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Chen X., Mitrovic A. and Mathews M. (2016) Do erroneous examples improve learning in addition to problem solving and worked examples? In Micarelli A; Stamper J; Panourgia K (Eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9684: 13-22. Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39583-8_2. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Chen X., Mitrovic A. and Mathews M. (2016) Do novices and advanced students benefit differently from erroneous examples? In Chen W (Eds). : 46-53. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Chen X., Mitrovic T. and Mathews M. (2016) Do novices and advanced students benefit differently from Erroneous Examples? In Main Conference Proceedings ICCE 2016: 46-53. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • De Jong J., Mitrovic A. and Mathews M. (2016) An Embedded Constraint-based Tutor for On-the-Job Training. In Chen W (Eds). : 19-26. Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Gálvez J., Guzmán E., Conejo R., Mitrovic A. and Mathews M. (2016) Data calibration for statistical-based assessment in constraint-based tutors. Knowledge-Based Systems 97: 11-23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2016.01.024. (Journal Articles)
  • Mathews M., Mitrovic A., Ohlsson S., Holland J. and McKinley A. (2016) A Virtual Reality Environment for Rehabilitation of Prospective Memory in Stroke Patients. In Procedia Computer Science 96: 7-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2016.08.081. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Mitrovic A., Mathews M., Ohlsson S., Holland J. and McKinlay A. (2016) Computer-Based Post-Stroke Rehabilitation of Prospective Memory. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition 5(2): 204-214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2016.03.006. (Journal Articles)
  • Chen X., Mitrovic A. and Mathews M. (2015) How to Present Example-based Support to Improve Learning in ITSs? In ICCE 2015 Proceedings: 115-117. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • De Jong J., Mitrovic A. and Mathews M. (2015) Developing an Embedded Tutor for On-the-job Training. In ICCE 2015 Proceedings: 109-111. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • De Jong J., Mitrovic A. and Mathews M. (2015) Developing an embedded tutor for on-the-job training. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2015: 109-111. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Mitrovic A., Mathews M., Ohlsson S., Holland J., McKinely A., Ogden S., Bracegirdle A. and Dopping-Hepenstal S. (2014) A virtual reality environment for prospective memory training. In Proceedings 1181: 93-98. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Mitrovic A., Mathews M., Ohlsson S., Holland J., McKinlay A., Ogden S., Bracegirdle A. and Dopping-Hepenstal S. (2014) From Tutoring to Cognitive Rehabilitation: Exploiting CBM to Support Memory Training. In Proceedings: 32-41. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Baker RSJD., Corbett AT., Roll I., Koedinger KR., Aleven V., Cocea M., Hershkovitz A., de Caravalho AMJB., Mitrovic A. and Mathews M. (2013) Modeling and studying gaming the system with educational data mining. In Azevedo R; Aleven V (Ed.), International Handbook of Metacognition and Learning Technologies: 97-115. New York: Springer. (Chapters)
  • Elmadani M., Mathews M. and Mitrovic A. (2012) Concept tagging in Moodle. In Proceedings:: 53-60. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Elmadani M., Mathews M. and Mitrovic A. (2012) Data-driven misconception discovery in constraint-based intelligent tutoring systems. In : 9-16. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Mathews M., Mitrovic A., Lin B., Holland J. and Churcher N. (2012) Do your eyes give it away? Using eye tracking data to understand students' attitudes towards open student model representations. In Cerri SA; Clancey WJ; Papadourakis G; Panourgia K (Eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 7315: 422-427. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30950-2_54. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Mathews MM. (2012) A Framework for Multiple Adaptable Pedagogical Strategies in Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Christchurch, New Zealand. University of Canterbury. (Theses / Dissertations)
  • Mitrovic A., Mathews M. and Holland J. (2012) Exploring two strategies for teaching procedures. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LCNS) 7315:: 499-504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30950-2_64. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Weerasinghe A., Mitrovic A., Mathews M., Holland J. and Elmadani M. (2012) Supporting self-directed learning skills in learning management systems. In Workshop Proceedings:: 770-776. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Williamson CJ., Mitrovic A., Bebbington A., Mathews M., Suraweera P., Martin B., Thomson D. and Holland J. (2012) Thermo-Tutor: An intelligent tutoring system for thermodynamic cycle analysis. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Holland J., Baghaei N., Mathews M. and Mitrovic A. (2011) The Effects of Domain and Collaboration Feedback on Learning in a Collaborative Intelligent Tutoring System. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS): Artificial Intelligence in Education 6738: 469-471. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21869-9_72. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Mathews M. and Mitrovic A. (2011) Incorporating Framing into SQL-Tutor. In ICCE2011 Conference Proceedings: 391-398. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Mitrovic A., Williamson C., Bebbington A., Mathews M., Suraweera P., Martin B., Thomson D. and Holland J. (2011) Thermo-Tutor: An Intelligent Tutoring System for Thermodynamics. In 2011 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference EDUCON: 378-385. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773164. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Baker RSJD., Mitrovic A. and Mathews M. (2010) Detecting Gaming the System in Constraint-Based Tutors. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS): User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization 6075,: 267-278. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13470-8_25. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Yudelson M., Brusilovsky P., Mitrovic A. and Mathews M. (2010) Using Numeric Optimization to Refine Semantic User Model Integration of Educational Systems. In Proceedings: 221-230. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Brusilovsky P., Mitrovic A., Sosnovsky S., Mathews M., Yudelson M., Lee D. and Zadorozhny V. (2009) Database Exploratorium: A Semantically Integrated Adaptive Educational System. In : 24-48. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Mathews M. and Mitrovic A. (2009) Does framing a problem-solving scenario influence learning? In Proceedings: 27-34. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Sosnovsky S., Brusilovsky P., Yudeslon M., Mitrovic A., Mathews M. and Kumar A. (2009) Semantic Integration of Adaptive Educational Systems. In Kuflik T; Berkovsky S; Carmagnola F; Heckmann D (Ed.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5830: Advances in Ubiquitous User Modelling: 134-158. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05039-8_8. (Chapters)
  • Mathews M. (2008) Message from the general chair. In New Zealand Computer Science Research Student Conference, NZCSRSC 2008 - Proceedings. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Mathews M. and Mitrovic A. (2008) Do Students Who See More Concepts in an ITS Learn More? In Educational Data Mining 2008: Proceedings: 266-273. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Mathews M. and Mitrovic T. (2008) How Does Students' Help-Seeking Behavior Affect Learning? In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 5091,: 363-372. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69132-7_40. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Mathews M. and Mitrović T. (2008) How does students' help-seeking behaviour affect learning? In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 5091 LNCS: 363-372. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69132-7_40. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Mathews M., Mitrovic A. and Thomson D. (2008) Analyzing high-level help-seeking behaviour in ITSs. Hannover, Germany: 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and adaptive Web-based systems, 29 Jul-1 Aug 2008. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Matthews M., Mitrovic A. and Thomson D. (2008) Analyzing high-level help seeking behaviour in ITSs. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 5149(AH 2008): 312-315. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Mathews M. and Hunt R. (2007) Evolution of Wireless LAN Security Architecture to IEEE 802.11i (WPA2). In Communication Systems and Networks (AsiaCSN 2007): 561-806. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Mathews M. and Hunt R. (2007) Evolution of wireless LAN security architecture to IEEE 802.11i (WPA2). In Proceedings of the 4th IASTED Asian Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, AsiaCSN 2007: 292-297. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Mathews M. and Mitrović A. (2007) Investigating the effectiveness of problem templates on learning in Intelligent Tutoring Systems. In Proceedings of NZCSRSC 2007, the 5th New Zealand Computer Science Research Student Conference. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Mathews M. and Mitrovic A. (2007) The Effect of Problem Templates on Learning in Intelligent Tutoring Systems. In Frontiers in Artifical Intelligence and Applications 158: 611-613. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Mathews M., Challa M., Chu CT., Jian G., Seichter H. and Grasset R. (2007) Evaluation of spatial abilities through tabletop AR. In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series 254: 17-24. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Review and Refereeing

  • ( 0 - 2023)
  • Asia Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE), Reviewer of conference publication ( 2008 )
  • CogSci ( 0 - 2023)
  • CogSci ( 2010 )
  • Continued reviewer and programme committee member for the annual International Conference in Computer Education (ICCE) meta conference. This is the premier meta conference (containing 7 conferences) in the Asia Pacific region. ( 2008 - 2023)
  • Continued reviewer for the international journal of Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning (RPTEL). It is a multidisciplinary refereed journal for disseminating rigorous research on all aspects of the use of technology to enhance learning and is the main journal in Asia Pacific region ( 2011 - 2023)
  • International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education ( 2013 - 2023)
  • Journal of Computers in Education ( 2014 )
  • PC Member: Intelligent Tutoring Technologies for Ill-Defined Problems and Ill-Defined Domains (2010) ( 2010 )
  • Reviewer for the ACM User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP). UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ( 2012 - 2023)
  • Reviewer for the ACM User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP). UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ( 2013 - 2023)
  • The Journal of Personalization Research ( 2014 - 2023)
  • Workshop on AI-supported Education for Computer Science (AIEDCS 2014) ( 2014 )

Affiliations

  • Asia Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE) (Professional Organisation): Member
  • Asia Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE) (Professional Organisation): Reviewer of conference publication
  • CogSci (Professional Organisation): Reviewer
  • International Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) Society (Professional Organisation): Member

Research Groups

  • Intelligent Computer Tutoring Group (ICTG)
  • Software Visualisation Group (SVG)

Key Methodologies

  • Empirical evaluations
  • Datamining
UC Library
Research & Innovation
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand
Research & Innovation Admin
Phone +64 3 369 5858
admin@research.canterbury.ac.nz
Research Profile Administrator
pbrfprofileradmin@canterbury.ac.nz
Back to top
  • GENERAL ENQUIRIES
  • +64 3 369 3999
  • info@canterbury.ac.nz
  • ENROLMENT ENQUIRIES
  • 0800 VARSITY (0800 827 748)
  • enrol@canterbury.ac.nz
  • INTERNATIONAL ENQUIRIES
  • +64 3 364 3443
  • (Aus) 1-800-431595
  • Ask a question
  • CONTACTS & DIRECTORIES
  • University contacts
  • Student contacts
  • Students' Association
  • Find a researcher (Research Profile)
  • Accommodation
  • Maps
  • Donate online
  • UC on Facebook
  • UC on Twitter
  • UC on youTube
  • UC on Instagram
  • UC on Snapchat
  • UC on LinkedIn
  • UC on WeChat
  • DEPARTMENTS
  • All departments
  • Arts
  • Business
  • Education
  • Engineering
  • Health
  • Law
  • Science
  • Service areas
  • LATEST
  • News
  • Events
  • Publications
  • Work at UC
  • Info for media
  • Style Guide
  • TOOLS
  • LEARN
  • UC Policy Library
  • Library
  • myUC
  • IT account
  • Student email
  • OneDrive
  • Timetable
  • Staff email
  • Intranet (Staff)
  • Copyright Feedback Privacy Cookies Declaration Payment Data
  • Emergency Information
  • © University of Canterbury - A Fair Trade University