Publications

2026

1. UR-RAD

   Decomposing Egocentric Spatial Relationships with Intermediacy and Imagery

   Jamie Macbeth, Boming Zhang, and Nhan Trong Pham

   In 4th AAAI Fall Symposium on Unifying Representations for Robot Application Development (UR-RAD 2026), 2026

   Accepted

   Bib

   @inproceedings{egocentric_spatial_relationships,
     title = {{Decomposing Egocentric Spatial Relationships with Intermediacy and Imagery}},
     author = {Macbeth, Jamie and Zhang, Boming and Pham, Nhan Trong},
     booktitle = {4th AAAI Fall Symposium on Unifying Representations for Robot Application Development (UR-RAD 2026)},
     year = {2026},
     note = {Accepted},
   }

2. ACS

   Exploring Hierarchical Scripts with Story Generation

   Jamie Macbeth, Boming Zhang, Nhan Trong Pham, Zishu Zhao, Ruixi Liang, and Mark Roberts

   In 13th Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS 2026), 2026

   Accepted

   Bib

   @inproceedings{hierarchical_scripts_story_generation,
     title = {{Exploring Hierarchical Scripts with Story Generation}},
     author = {Macbeth, Jamie and Zhang, Boming and Pham, Nhan Trong and Zhao, Zishu and Liang, Ruixi and Roberts, Mark},
     booktitle = {13th Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS 2026)},
     year = {2026},
     note = {Accepted},
   }

2025

1. AAAI

   A Conceptual Primitive Decomposition of the Sally-Anne Test

   J. C. Macbeth, B. Zhang, and S. Badhan

   In Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series, 2025

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   @inproceedings{sally_anne,
     title = {{A Conceptual Primitive Decomposition of the Sally-Anne Test}},
     author = {Macbeth, J. C. and Zhang, B. and Badhan, S.},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series},
     year = {2025},
     volume = {7},
     number = {1},
     pages = {670--672},
     doi = {10.1609/aaaiss.v7i1.36949},
     url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI-SS/article/view/36949},
   }

2. ACS

   A View of the Restaurant Script Through the Lens of Hierarchical Planning

   J. C. Macbeth, M. Roberts, B. Zhang, S. Badhan, M. Neu, T. Garg, Y. Hua, M. Muco, and M. Zhou

   In Twelfth Annual Advances in Cognitive Systems, Poster Collection, 2025

   Bib HTML PDF

   @inproceedings{restaurant_script,
     title = {{A View of the Restaurant Script Through the Lens of Hierarchical Planning}},
     author = {Macbeth, J. C. and Roberts, M. and Zhang, B. and Badhan, S. and Neu, M. and Garg, T. and Hua, Y. and Muco, M. and Zhou, M.},
     booktitle = {Twelfth Annual Advances in Cognitive Systems, Poster Collection},
     year = {2025},
     pages = {132--154},
     url = {https://scholarworks.smith.edu/csc_facpubs/425/},
   }

3. EDULEARN

   Improving Student Engagement with the MathSpring Intelligent Tutoring System: A Reinforcement Learning Approach

   B. Zhang and I. Arroyo

   In EDULEARN25 Proceedings, 2025

   DOI Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{mathspring_rl,
     title = {{Improving Student Engagement with the MathSpring Intelligent Tutoring System: A Reinforcement Learning Approach}},
     author = {Zhang, B. and Arroyo, I.},
     booktitle = {EDULEARN25 Proceedings},
     year = {2025},
     pages = {9054--9063},
     doi = {10.21125/edulearn.2025.2341},
     url = {https://library.iated.org/view/ZHANG2025IMP},
   }

4. ISD

   Script-based Inferences in an Image Schema Story Understander

   J. C. Macbeth, B. T. Zhang, and S. Badhan

   In The Ninth Image Schema Day, Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2025), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2025

   Proceedings published March 2026.

   Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{image_schema_story,
     title = {{Script-based Inferences in an Image Schema Story Understander}},
     author = {Macbeth, J. C. and Zhang, B. T. and Badhan, S.},
     booktitle = {The Ninth Image Schema Day, Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2025), CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
     year = {2025},
     volume = {4176},
     url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4176/isd-5.pdf},
     note = {Proceedings published March 2026.},
   }

2020

1. Chapter

   Children Who Code

   J. C. Macbeth, M. J. Lee, J. S. Kim, and T. B. Zhang

   In The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children, 2020

   DOI Bib HTML

   @incollection{children_who_code,
     title = {{Children Who Code}},
     author = {Macbeth, J. C. and Lee, M. J. and Kim, J. S. and Zhang, T. B.},
     booktitle = {The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children},
     year = {2020},
     pages = {67--74},
     doi = {10.4324/9781351004107-6},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351004107-6},
   }