Cai, M., Guevarra, M., Abdullah, Y. A., & Demmans Epp, C. (2025). Unveiling the interplay between affect and cognitive load during simulation-based training. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED '25), 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-98420-4_31
Gorgun, G., Cai, M., & Demmans Epp, C. (2025). Modeling intrinsic load: Can item difficulty be a reasonable proxy? International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED '25), 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-98462-4_33
Abdullah, Y. A., Guevarra, M., Cai, M., Yang, J., Matthew, E. T., & Demmans Epp, C. (2025). Pilot Trainees Benefit from Modelling and Adaptive Feedback. International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP '25), New York City, USA https://doi.org/10.1145/3699682.3728337
Cai, M., Gorgun, G., & Demmans Epp, C. (2025). Difficulty as a proxy for measuring intrinsic cognitive load. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. AERA 2025. April 2025. Denver, USA. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.13235
Cai, M. & Demmans Epp, C. Predicting Cognitive Load Using Sensor Data in a Literacy Game. International Conference on Educational Data Mining. EDM'24. July 2024. Atlanta, USA https://zenodo.org/records/12729950
Cai, M. & Demmans Epp, C. Exploring the optimal time window for predicting cognitive load using physiological sensor data. PhysioCHI ’24, Hawaii, USA https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2406.13793
Cai, M., Rebolledo Méndez, G., Arevalo, G., Tang, S. S., A Abdullah, Y., & Demmans Epp, C. Toward Supporting Adaptation: Exploring Affect's Role in Cognitive Load when Using a Literacy Game. The ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024. CHI2024, Hawaii, USA https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642150
Liaqat, A., Demmans Epp, C., Cai, M., & Munteanu, C. Exploring Collaborative Culture Sharing。 Dynamics in Immigrant Families through Digital Crafting and Storytelling. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, CSCW2, Article 307 (October 2023). https://doi.org/10.1145/3610098
Gonz ́alez Esparza, L., Cai, M., Palestino, I., Rebolledo-Mendez, G., Demmans Epp, C., & Cutumisu, M. Automatically Detecting Affect in Computerized Learning Environments: A Systematic Literature Review. The 20th Biennial European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction Conference. EARLI'23. August 2023, Thessaloniki , Greece
Cai, M., & Demmans Epp, C. Cognitive Load and Affect to Support Adaptive Online Learning. Modeling. The 15th International Conference on Educational Data Mining. EDM'22. 2022, July https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6853020
Cai, M., Demmans Epp, C., & Firoozi, T. Complex Learning Environments: Tensions in Student Perspectives that Indicate Competing Values. In Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners’ and Doctoral Consortium: 23rd International Conference, AIED 2022, Durham, UK, July 27–31, 2022, Proceedings, Part II (pp. 144-149). https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-11647-6_25
Cai, M., Zheng, B., & Demmans Epp, C. Towards Supporting Adaptive Training of Injection Procedures: Detecting Differences in the Visual Attention of Nursing Students and Experts. The 30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (pp. 286-294). 2022, July https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3503252.3531302
Cai, M., Akcayir, G., & Demmans Epp, C. Exploring Augmented Reality Games in Accessible Learning: A Systematic Review. CHI 2021: Adaptive Accessible AR/VR Systems, May 2021, Japan http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08214
Cai, M., & Tanaka, J. Go together: providing nonverbal awareness cues to enhance co-located sensation in remote communication. Journal Human-centric computing and information sciences, 9, 1-25, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13673-019-0180-y
Dou, H., Li, Z., Cai, M., Cheng, K., Masuko, S., & Tanaka, J. Show something: intelligent shopping assistant supporting quick scene understanding and immersive preview. The 21st HCI International Conference, HCII 2019, Orlando, FL, USA, July 26-31, 2019, Proceedings, Part II 21 (pp. 205-218). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22649-7_17
Cai, M., & Tanaka, J. Remote shoulder-to-shoulder communication enhancing co-located sensation. The 12th International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (ACHI) (pp. 80-85), 2019, Feb (Best Paper Award)
Cai, M., Masuko, S., & Tanaka, J. Gesture-based mobile communication system providing side-by-side shopping feeling. The 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Companion (pp. 1-2), 2018, March https://doi.org/10.1145/3180308.3180310
Cai, M., & Tanaka, J. Trip together: a remote pair sightseeing system supporting gestural communication. The 5th International Conference on Human Agent Interaction (pp. 317-324), 2017, October https://doi.org/10.1145/3125739.3125762