Kristen Elizabeth Link
Department of Psychology
SUNY Oswego
Oswego, NY 13126
(315) 312 - 3465 (W)
E-mail: klink@oswego.edu
URL: http://www.oswego.edu/~klink/

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor

Fall 2001 - present
State University of New York College at Oswego
Oswego, New York

Graduate Research Assistant
The University of Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee

Advisor: Roger J. Kreuz Fall 1996 - Summer 2001
Research on nonliteral language comprehension and use; collaborative work on the use of nonliteral language in advertising (Project funded by ONR to Roger J. Kreuz)

Principal Investigator: Arthur C. Graesser Fall 1997 - Summer 2000
Research on the perception of feedback delivered via speech synthesis and facial expressions by a pedagogical agent; collaborative work on the evaluation of the pedagogical effectiveness of an automated, conversational computer tutor; collaborative work on the evaluation of the dialog moves used by an automated, conversational computer tutor (Projects funded by NSF to develop an automated, conversational computer tutor)

Instructor
Cognitive Processes (PSYC 3303) Summer 1999

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Psychological Statistics (PSYC 3001) Fall 1998
Introduction to Psychological Research (PSYC 3002) Spring 1999

EDUCATION

Ph. D., Experimental Psychology (August 2001)
The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
Research Area: Cognitive and Social Processes
Committee Chair: Roger J. Kreuz
Dissertation: The comprehension and use of ostensible speech acts

M. S., Psychology (May 1999)
Research Area: Cognitive and Social Processes
Committee Chair: Roger J. Kreuz
Thesis: The effect of gender on figurative language use in the context of emotional communication

B. S., Psychology (May 1996)
Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH

Additional course

Workshop in Connectionist Modeling
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Oct. 3-4, 1998

COURSES TAUGHT

SUNY Oswego
Principles of Human Behavior (PSY 100), Fall 2001 - Fall 2002, Fall 2003
Research Methods in Psychology (PSY 290), Fall 2001 - Spring 2004
Psycholinguistics (PSY 310), Spring semesters 2002, 2003, 2004
Advanced General Psychology Honors (PSY 391H), Spring 2004

The University of Memphis
Thinking and Cognitive Processes (PSYC 3303), Summer 1999

AREAS OF COMPETENCY IN TEACHING

Undergraduate Courses
Introductory Psychology
Statistics
Research Methods
Psychology of Language
Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Science
Memory
Perception
Social Psychology

Graduate Courses/Upper-level Seminars
Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Science
Psychology of Language
Pragmatics

SERVICE

Departmental

Technology Committee, Member
Department of Psychology, Fall 2003-present

Recruitment Committee, Member
Department of Psychology, Fall 2002 - present

Research & Colloquium/Professional Development Committee, Member
Department of Psychology, Fall 2001 - Spring 2002

Campus-wide

Technology Board, Member
SUNY Oswego, Spring 2004

Cognitive Science Advisory Board
Representative of Department of Psychology, Fall 2001 - present

Curriculum and Assessment Committee, Chair
Cognitive Science Advisory Board, Fall 2002 - present

Linguistics Program Faculty Committee
Representative of Department of Psychology, Fall 2001 - present

Admission, Recruitment, & Advisement Committee, Chair
Cognitive Science Advisory Board, Fall 2001 - Spring 2002

HONORS AND AWARDS

Roland L. Frye Achievement Award in Experimental Psychology, The University of Memphis (Spring 1999)

Bieliauskas Award for Academic Achievement in Psychology, Xavier University (1996)

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

Ad hoc reviewer: Discourse Processes; Metaphor and Symbol

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Psychological Society, Member
Cognitive Science Society, Member
Psychonomic Society, Associate Member
Society for Text and Discourse, Member

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

Link, K. E. (2003). Pretense in spoken and written discourse. Manuscript in preparation.

Link, K. E. (2003). The comprehension of ostensible speech acts. Manuscript under review at Journal of Pragmatics.

Dulaney, C. L, Marks, W., & Link, K. E. (in press). Aging and directed forgetting: Pre-cue encoding and post-cue rehearsal effects. Experimental Aging Research.

Link, K. E., & Kreuz, R. J. (in press). Do men and women differ in their use of nonliteral language when they talk about emotions? To appear in H. L. Colston & A. N. Katz (Eds.), Figurative language comprehension: Social and cultural influences. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Kreuz, R. J., & Link, K. E. (2002). Asymmetries in the perception of verbal irony. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 21, 127-143.

Link, K. E., Kreuz, R. J., Graesser, A. C., & the Tutoring Research Group (2001). Factors that influence the perception of feedback delivered by a pedagogical agent. International Journal of Speech Technology, 4, 145-153.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Link, K. E., Pomeroy, V., DiPaolo, R., Rajan, S., Klettke, B., Bautista, L., Kreuz, R., Graesser, A., & the Tutoring Research Group (2000). The effectiveness of tutorial dialog in an automated conversational tutor. In Proceedings of the Tenth annual meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse (pp. 18-19). Lyon, France: Université Lumière Lyon 2.

Person, N. K., Klettke, B., Link, K., Kreuz, R. J., & the Tutoring Research Group. (1999). The integration of affective responses into AutoTutor. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Affect in Interactions (pp. 167-178). Siena, Italy.

PRESENTATIONS

Invited Presentations

Link, K. E. (2000, November). Pretense in discourse. The Language Research Forum. The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN.

Conference Presentations

Link, K.E., Parker, A.W., Gracin, N.R., & Daley, S.L. (2003, November). Why do people say "Let's do lunch sometime"? The discourse goals of ostensible speech acts. Poster to be presented at the 44th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, Canada.

Darcangelo, N., & Link, K. E. (2003, March). Understanding what a speaker intends: A comparison of English and Italian speakers. Poster presented at the 74th annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore.

Kreuz, R., Whitten, S., Link, K., Marineau, J., & Ashley, A. (2002, June). Does it matter how you say it?: A comparison of figurative forms. Paper presented at the 11th annual meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Chicago.

Link, K. E., Kreuz, R. J., & Soto, J. (2001, November). "Let's do lunch sometime": An analysis of ostensible speech acts. Paper presented at the 42nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL.

Graesser, A. C., Link, K. E., Bautista, L., Kreuz, R. J., & the Tutoring Research Group (2001, April). An evaluation of AutoTutor on learning gains. Paper presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, WA.

Person, N. K., Kreuz, R. J., Graesser, A. C., Rajan, S., Klettke, B., Pomeroy, V., Link, K. E., & the Tutoring Research Group. (2001, April). An analysis of student learning gains after interacting with AutoTutor. Paper presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association, Seattle, WA.

Link, K. E., Pomeroy, V., DiPaolo, R., Rajan, S., Klettke, B., Bautista, L., Kreuz, R., Graesser, A., & the Tutoring Research Group (2000, July). The effectiveness of tutorial dialog in an automated conversational tutor. Paper presented at the Tenth annual meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Lyon, France.

Link, K. E., & Kreuz, R. J. (1999, November). Do men and women use nonliteral language differently when they talk about emotions? Paper presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles.

Klettke, B., Person, N., K., Graesser, A. C., Link, K., Kreuz, R. J., & the Tutoring Research Group. (1999, October). The integration of affective responses into AutoTutor. Poster session presented at the International Workshop on Affect in Interactions, Siena, Italy.

Person, N., K., Klettke, B., Link, K., Kreuz, R. J., & the Tutoring Research Group. (1999, October). The integration of affective responses into AutoTutor. Paper presented at the International Workshop on Affect in Interactions, Siena, Italy.

Kreuz, R. J., Link, K. E., & Hu, X. (1998, August). Intonation and facial expressions of talking head. In A. Graesser (Chair), AutoTutor: A computer tutor that simulates human tutorial dialogue. Symposium conducted at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Madison, WI.

Kreuz, R. J., Link, K. E., Epstein, A. R., & McLain-Allen, B. (1997, November). Do expectations of events affect verbal irony comprehension? Paper presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Philadelphia.

Dulaney, C. L., Marks, W., & Link, K. E. (1996, April). Aging and directed forgetting: pre-cue encoding and post-cue rehearsal effects. Poster session presented at the Sixth Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.

APPENDIX

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS AS A MEMBER OF THE TUTORING RESEARCH GROUP*

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., Bautista, L., Mathews, E. C., & the Tutoring Research Group (2001). Evaluating Student Learning Gains in Two Versions of AutoTutor. In J. D. Moore, C. L. Redfield, & W. L. Johnson (Eds.) Artificial intelligence in education: AI-ED in the wired and wireless future (pp. 286-293). Amsterdam: IOS Press.

Graesser, A., Wiemer-Hastings, K., Wiemer-Hastings, P., Kreuz, R., & the Tutoring Research Group (2000). AutoTutor: A simulation of a human tutor. Journal of Cognitive Systems Research, 1, 35-51.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Graesser, A. C., Person, N., Harter, D., & the Tutoring Research Group (2000). Teaching tactics in AutoTutor. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Modeling Human Teaching Tactics and Strategies at the Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (pp. 49-57). Montréal: Université de Montréal.

Person, N. K., Bautista, L., Kreuz, R. J., Graesser, A. C. & the Tutoring Research Group (2000). The dialog advancer network: A conversation manager for AutoTutor. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Modeling Human Teaching Tactics and Strategies at the Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (pp. 86-92). Montréal: Université de Montréal.

Person, N. K., & Graesser, A. C. (2000). Designing AutoTutor to be an effective conversational partner. In B. Fishman & S. O'Connor-Divelbiss (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of the Learning Sciences (pp. 246-253). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., Harter, D., & the Tutoring Research Group (in press). The Dialog Advancer Network: A mechanism for improving AutoTutor's conversational skills. In Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse (pp. 20-21). Lyon, France: Université Lumière Lyon 2.

Graesser, A. C., Franklin, S., & Wiemer-Hastings, P. and the Tutoring Research Group (1998). Simulating smooth tutorial dialogue with pedagogical value. In Proceedings of The Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98) (pp. 163-167). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.

McCauley, L., Gholson, B., Hu, X., Graesser, A. C., & the Tutoring Research Group (1998). Delivering smooth tutorial dialogue using a talking head. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Embodied Conversation Characters (pp. 31-38). Tahoe City, CA: AAAI and ACM.

Conference Presentations

Person, N., Kreuz, R., Pomeroy, V., Klettke, B., & The Tutoring Research Group (1999, August). AutoTutor's pedagogical effectiveness and conversational appropriateness. Paper presented at the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Vancouver, Canada.

Graesser, A., Kreuz, R., Wiemer-Hastings, P., & The Tutoring Research Group (1999, May). Simulating tutors with natural dialog and pedagogical strategies. Paper presented at the National Science Foundation Learning and Intelligent Systems Principal Investigators Meeting, Washington, DC.

McCauley, L., Gholson, B., Hu, X., Graesser, A. C., & the Tutoring Research Group (1998, October). Delivering smooth tutorial dialogue using a talking head. Paper presented at the Workshop on Embodied Conversation Characters (AAAI and ACM). Tahoe City, CA.

Graesser, A. C., Franklin, S., & the Tutoring Research Group (1998, July). The goals and design of AutoTutor. Symposium presented at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Madison, WI.

Graesser, A. C., Franklin, S., Wiemer-Hastings, P., & the Tutoring Research Group (1998, May). Simulating smooth tutorial dialogue with pedagogical value. Paper presented at the Eleventh Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium (FLAIRS-98), Sanibel Island, FL.

* These are only the portion of the Tutoring Research Group publications and presentations in which I played a significant role. The full list of publications and presentations of the Tutoring Research Group can be found at http://www.autotutor.org/publications/publications.htm. I was involved in the group from 1997 to 2001.