Symposium on AI and Cognitive Sciences in Education (AICSED) 2026

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

Programme - Wednesday, 1 July 2026

Start

End

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: "The Case Against Conscious AI"

Pevensey I building
Lecture theatre 1A7

11:00

11:30

Symposium Keynote
Prof. Benedict 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)

Dmitri Droujkov, Sutapa Dey Tithi and Tiffany Barnes
Confusion, Agency, and Metacognitive Instruction in an Intelligent Tutoring System: An Ability-Moderated Account

Grecia Garcia Garcia and Peter C-H. Cheng
Can an LLM build an application to automatically assess students' interpretations of diagrams?

Daniel Hajas
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

Jonathan Zong, Isabella Pedraza Pineros, Mengzhu (Katie) Chen, Daniel Hajas and Arvind Satyanarayan
Semantic Scaffolding: Augmenting Textual Structures with Domain-Specific Groupings for Accessible Data Exploration

Charlotte Richardson and Ronald R. Grau
The Development and Evaluation of a Hybrid ViT-LSTM for Word-Level Sign Language Recognition

Alma Jazmín Castillo Rodríguez and Felipe De la Peña
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)

Ronnie Videla, Dor Abrahamson and Marcelo Chávez
Embodied AI: Designing Inclusive Digital Ecologies

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

Closing Keynote
Jonathan Zong: “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)

The Seahorse, Brighton
(you will receive a separate email from the convention organisers after registration)

Programme Committee

Symposium chair:

Dr Ronald Grau, University of Sussex (email)

Co-chairs

Dr Grecia Garcia Garcia, University of Sussex

Dr Daniel Hajas, University College London

Dr Laura Desirée Di Paolo, University of Sussex