Symposium on AI and Cognitive Sciences in Education

Date: 1 July 2026
Location: University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

Program - Wednesday, 1 July 2026 (Subject to confirmation)

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Activity

Location & Info

9:00

9:30

Registration /coffee, tea & pastries

Chichester I building
Future Technologies Lab

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9:30

10:00

Convention Keynote
Prof. Anil Seth

Pevensey I building
Lecture theatre 1A7

11:00

11:30

Symposium Keynote
Prof. Ben du Boulay: “AI in Education – the first 60 years”

Student Centre building
Room: Woodlands 3

11:30

13:00

Session 1 - Human Learning, Pedagogy, and Design (I)

Embodied AI: Designing Inclusive Digital Ecologies

Can an LLM build an application to automatically assess students' interpretations of diagrams?

Flow-Centred Design: A New Lens for Evaluating Accessibility in Human-Computer Interaction

Student Centre building
Room: Woodlands 3


Session chair: Dr Ron Grau

13:00

14:00

Lunch

Chichester I building
Future Technologies Lab


14:00

15:30

Session 2 - Technical and Systemic Aspects
Session chair: Dr Grecia Garcia-Garcia

Semantic Scaffolding: Augmenting Textual Structures with Domain-Specific Groupings for Accessible Data Exploration

The Development and Evaluation of a Hybrid ViT-LSTM for Word-Level Sign Language Recognition

Democratising Personalised STEAM Education: A Generative AI-Driven Intelligent Tutoring System Aligned with Standardised Pedagogical Frameworks in Mexico

Student Centre building
Room: Woodlands 3


Session chair: Dr Grecia Garcia Garcia

15:30

16:00

Coffee & tea break

Student Centre building
Room: Woodlands 3

16:00

17:30

Session 3 - Human Learning, Pedagogy, and Design (II)
Session chair: Dr Daniel Hajas

First steps towards novel adaptive systems for individualised music learning and assessment: An investigation of memory chunking in a piano chord production task

Confusion, Agency, and Metacognitive Instruction in an Intelligent Tutoring System: An Ability-Moderated Account

Closing Keynote: The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People

Student Centre building
Room: Woodlands 3


Session chair: Dr Daniel Hajas

19:00

22:00

Convention Dinner (Optional)

Brighton (you will receive a separate email after registration)

Program Committee

Dr Ronald Grau, University of Sussex

Dr Grecia Garcia Garcia, University of Sussex

Dr Daniel Hajas, University College London

Dr Laura Desirée Di Paolo, University of Sussex