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Open knowledge interface: a digital assistant to support students in writing academic assignments

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EASEAI 2019: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on Education through Advanced Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence

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In the course of their studies, the majority of students at German universities have to write a certain number of academic assignments as an essential part of the academic training in any degree program. This work presents some initial results of our research into the design, implementation and conceptual usage of OKI (Open Knowledge Interface) – a digital assistant intended to support students in writing academic assignments. The core aspects of assistance include project management, context-sensitive help in applying scientific methods and search in open access literature. OKI is a conversational chatbot running inside Telegram-Messenger and allowing an efficient mobile usage, and thus a flexible way of organizing users’ own time and workload. The Open Knowledge Interface project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research within the Open Access Guideline, and runs from May 2018 to October 2019. This paper therefore is an attempt to describe some initial conceptual thoughts as well as preliminary results including first user experiences and a brief outlook on future work.

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