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Earl Woodruff

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Chair and Professor

University of Toronto

Canada

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Earl Woodruff is a Chair and Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada. His research interests include artificial intelligence in education, emotional responses to background music, and biometric signals related to understanding. Recent articles reflect his focus on the intersection of technology and learning, as well as psychological responses of children and adolescents in social contexts.

Recent Grants

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Decoding Learning in the Moment: Passive Physiological Signal Fusion for GenAI Tutoring

Open Date: 2026-05-01

Close Date: 2028-05-01

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Academic emotion, student engagement and online knowledge building

Open Date: 2015-04-01

Close Date: 2019-03-31

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Toward the synergistic integration of computer-mediated communication and wikis

Open Date: 2010-04-01

Close Date: 2013-03-31

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Beyond best practice: research-based innovation in learning and knowledge work

Open Date: 2002-04-01

Close Date: 2007-03-31

Grant: Close

Effects of computer-mediated collaborative math learning on teachers in training

Open Date: 1998-04-01

Close Date: 2000-03-31

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Steve Engels

Professor, Teaching Stream

University of Toronto

CANADA

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Matthew Moreno

University of Central Florida

UNITED STATES

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Charlene Ryan

Associate Professor

University of Toronto

CANADA

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James Hewitt

Full Professor

University of Toronto

CANADA

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Articles (24)

Epistemic Agency in the Age of Large Language Models: Design Principles for Knowledge-Building AI

Smartphone application for contactless measurement of heart rate and stress in children

Digital Math Game-Based Learning Environments, Academic Emotions, Self-Regulated Learning, and Mathematics Achievement Among School-Aged Learners: A Scoping Review

Acoustic Correlates of Phases of Understanding in a Naturalistic Literary Task

Children’s facial expressions in response to another’s joy predict trait empathy

Boundary Conditions for AU-Based Detection of Understanding: A Literary Analysis Study

When Anger Strikes: Using AI Modelling to Understand How Negative Emotions Impact Performance in Digital Math Games

From Learned Helplessness to Authentic Dialogue: Rethinking AI, Consciousness, and Education

Making AI Tutors Empathetic and Conscious: A Needs-Driven Pathway to Synthetic Machine Consciousness

Decoding Subjective Understanding: Using Biometric Signals to Classify Phases of Understanding

The Next Generation of Personalized Educational AI: Integrating Emotion and Cognition

The influence of conscientiousness and context on the emotional response during understanding

A systematic review of cardiac autonomic reactivity to face-to-face social stressor stimuli in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder

A systematic review of cardiac autonomic reactivity to face-to-face social stressor stimuli in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder

AI Detection of Human Understanding in a Gen-AI Tutor

Background music of varying tempi produces differing facial emotional expressions and performance in music-majors and non-majors as they complete a reading comprehension test

The effects of expressions of fear induced by background music on reading comprehension

Exploring the Effects of Background Music on Real-Time Emotional Expressions, Performance, and Confusion Mediation in Middle School Students

Examining the effects of tempo in background music on adolescent learners’ reading comprehension performance: employing a multimodal approach

Understanding optimal problem-solving in a digital game: The interplay of learner attributes and learning behavior

Examining the impact of social stressor stimuli in eliciting physiological reactivity in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

Synthesizing advancements in methodology and technology to understand affective expression and music stimuli: a literature review

The Effect of Emotions on Self-Regulated-Learning (SRL) and Story Comprehension in Emerging Readers

Between text and platforms: A case study on the real-time emotions & psychophysiological indicators of video gaming and academic engagement

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Steve Engels

Matthew Moreno

Charlene Ryan

James Hewitt

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Earl Woodruff

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Articles (24)

Epistemic Agency in the Age of Large Language Models: Design Principles for Knowledge-Building AI

Smartphone application for contactless measurement of heart rate and stress in children

Digital Math Game-Based Learning Environments, Academic Emotions, Self-Regulated Learning, and Mathematics Achievement Among School-Aged Learners: A Scoping Review

Acoustic Correlates of Phases of Understanding in a Naturalistic Literary Task

Children’s facial expressions in response to another’s joy predict trait empathy

Boundary Conditions for AU-Based Detection of Understanding: A Literary Analysis Study

When Anger Strikes: Using AI Modelling to Understand How Negative Emotions Impact Performance in Digital Math Games

From Learned Helplessness to Authentic Dialogue: Rethinking AI, Consciousness, and Education

Making AI Tutors Empathetic and Conscious: A Needs-Driven Pathway to Synthetic Machine Consciousness

Decoding Subjective Understanding: Using Biometric Signals to Classify Phases of Understanding

The Next Generation of Personalized Educational AI: Integrating Emotion and Cognition

The influence of conscientiousness and context on the emotional response during understanding

A systematic review of cardiac autonomic reactivity to face-to-face social stressor stimuli in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder

A systematic review of cardiac autonomic reactivity to face-to-face social stressor stimuli in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder

AI Detection of Human Understanding in a Gen-AI Tutor

Background music of varying tempi produces differing facial emotional expressions and performance in music-majors and non-majors as they complete a reading comprehension test

The effects of expressions of fear induced by background music on reading comprehension

Exploring the Effects of Background Music on Real-Time Emotional Expressions, Performance, and Confusion Mediation in Middle School Students

Examining the effects of tempo in background music on adolescent learners’ reading comprehension performance: employing a multimodal approach

Understanding optimal problem-solving in a digital game: The interplay of learner attributes and learning behavior

Examining the impact of social stressor stimuli in eliciting physiological reactivity in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

Synthesizing advancements in methodology and technology to understand affective expression and music stimuli: a literature review

The Effect of Emotions on Self-Regulated-Learning (SRL) and Story Comprehension in Emerging Readers

Between text and platforms: A case study on the real-time emotions &amp; psychophysiological indicators of video gaming and academic engagement

Collaborators (4)

Steve Engels

Matthew Moreno

Charlene Ryan

James Hewitt

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Between text and platforms: A case study on the real-time emotions & psychophysiological indicators of video gaming and academic engagement