GIFT

GIFTSYM13 COMMUNITY IPR CALL FOR REPORTS ANNOUNCEMENT!

The GIFTSym13 community IPR will be held in-person on Wednesday, November 19th, 2025 (starting mid-day), and Thursday, November 20th, 2025 (full day) at the Central Florida Tech Grove in Orlando, FL.

All presentations should be presented in-person if possible (if you need to present virtually let us know the reason so we can make the needed arrangements). Attendees will be able to participate in person or virtually.

GIFTSym13 community IPR is the thirteenth annual Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT) User Symposium IPR. GIFTSym community IPR is an in-progress review for those who are working on projects utilizing GIFT to discuss and demonstrate their work to date. GIFTSym13 community IPR invites GIFT designers, developers and practitioners to submit technical papers about their ideas, experiences, and lessons-learned in using GIFT to author and evaluate Adaptive Instructional Systems (AISs). GIFT is an open-source, empirically-based, service-oriented framework of tools, methods and standards to make it easier to author computer-based tutoring systems (CBTSs), deliver and manage instruction, and assess the effect of adaptive instruction, CBTSs, components and methodologies. GIFT is being developed under the Adaptive Tutoring Research Science & Technology project at the Learning in Intelligent Tutoring Environments (LITE) Laboratory, part of the US Army Combat Capability Development Command – Soldier Center’s Simulation and Training Technology Center (DEVCOM-SC STTC).

Please submit your abstract using the EasyChair GIFTSym13 community IPR submission site here: GIFTSym13 community IPR Submission Site

Submission Guidelines

All reports must be original and not simultaneously submitted elsewhere (such as to a journal or a conference), or previously published. All figures, tables, and images must be original and not previously published.

The following report categories are welcome:

Full reports (5-10 pages using template) describing design, application, and/or science-based potential enhancements to GIFT.
Short reports (3-4 pages using template) describing standards opportunities for AISs. This will form the basis for a potential separate session on the applicability of standards for AIS development.
Demonstration (3-4 pages using template) showcasing mature use cases that highlight advancements in GIFT’s utility across performance assessments, pedagogical reasoning and coaching, data visualization, adaptive and intelligent training, and after action reviews.

Important Dates

Abstracts (approximately 800 words) should cover the methods, results/conclusions and recommendations that will be included in the final version of the report. If your abstract is accepted then you will need to write a complete report, and create a presentation which are both due at the time of the GIFTSym13 community IPR. Specific deadlines are below. Presentations will need to be received prior to the meeting to help facilitate the hybrid portion.

Abstract Submission Deadline – 30 September 2025
Anticipated Acceptance Notification Date – 20 October 2025
Presentation Submission Deadline – 14 November 2025
Camera-Ready Report Submission Deadline – 20 November 2025
GIFTSym13 community IPR – Wednesday, 19 November 2025 (starting mid-day), and Thursday, 20 November 2025 (full day)

List of Topics for Reports

•Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning for AISs
•Generative AI
•Scalability
•Collective and Team-Based Methods
•Measurement and Assessment
•Standards for AISs
•Authoring Tools
•Domain Modeling
•Individual Learner Modeling
•Instructional Management
•AIS Architecture and Ontology
•After Action Review (AAR)
•Competency Modeling
•AIS Dashboards and Visualizations
•Large Language Models
•Conversational Agents
•Interoperability and Learning Ecosystems for Future and Emerging Concepts

IPR Program Committee

•Dr. Anne Sinatra
•Dr. Benjamin Goldberg
•Dr. Gregory Goodwin
•Dr. Randall Spain
•Ms. Lisa Townsend
•Dr. Paige Lawton

Publication

GIFTSym13 community IPR report proceedings will be published by U.S. Army Combat Capability Development Command - Solider Center (DEVCOM-SC).
There will be a contributor agreement for all report authors to sign prior to report proceedings publication.

Venue

We are excited to announce that GIFTSym13 community IPR will be held in-person this year! It will be held in Orlando, Florida at the Central Florida Tech Grove. We ask that all presenters plan to attend and present in-person, as presentations are planned to be given in-person only (special circumstances can be considered if a presentation needs to be conducted virtually). Non-presenting attendees can participate either in-person or virtually.

GIFTSym13 community IPR participation and attendance does not have an associated fee, but we do ask that you RSVP online prior to the meeting so that we know the number of people attending. More details will be shared as the GIFTSym13 community IPR approaches.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Dr. Sinatra and Dr. Goldberg at anne.m.sinatra.civ@army.mil and benjamin.s.goldberg.civ@army.mil

You can submit your abstract using the EasyChair GIFTSym13 community IPR submission site here: GIFTSym13 community IPR Submission Site