Dr. I. (Isaac) Alpizar Chacon

Dr. I. (Isaac) Alpizar Chacon

Assistant Professor
Softw.Techn. for Learning and Teach.
i.alpizarchacon@uu.nl

Publications

2025

Scholarly publications

Alpizar-Chacon, I., & Keuning, H. (2025). Student's Use of Generative AI as a Support Tool in an Advanced Web Development Course. In ITiCSE 2025 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (pp. 312-318). (Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE; Vol. 1). Association for Computing Machinery. [DOI] [Portal]
Begum, M., Crossley, J., Strömbäck, F., Akrida, E., Alpizar-Chacon, I., Evans, A., Gross, J. B., Haglund, P., Lonati, V., Satyavolu, C., & Thorgeirsson, S. (2025). A Pedagogical Framework for Developing Abstraction Skills. In ITiCSE WGR 2024 - Publication of the 2024 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (pp. 258-299). (Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE). Association for Computing Machinery. [DOI] [Portal]

2024

Scholarly publications

Keuning, H., Alpizar-Chacon, I., Lykourentzou, I., Beehler, L., Köppe, C., de Jong, I., & Sosnovsky, S. (2024). Students' Perceptions and Use of Generative AI Tools for Programming Across Different Computing Courses. In J. Leinonen, & A. Mühling (Eds.), Koli Calling '24: Proceedings of the 24th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research (pp. 1-12). Association for Computing Machinery. [DOI] [Portal]
Begum, M., Akrida, E., Gross, J. B., Crossley, J., Alpizar-Chacon, I., Haglund, P., Strömbäck, F., Evans, A., Lonati, V., Satyavolu, C., & Thorgeirsson, S. (2024). Designing a Pedagogical Framework for Developing Abstraction Skills. 769-770. Abstract from 29th Conference Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2024, Milan, Italy. [DOI]

Professional publications

Alpizar-Chacon, I. (2024). Extraction of Knowledge Models from Textbooks. ACM SIGWEB Newsletter, 2024(Summer), Article 3. [DOI]

2023

Scholarly publications

Pozzi, L., Alpizar-Chacon, I., & Sosnovsky, S. (2023). Harnessing Textbooks for High-Quality Labeled Data: An Approach to Automatic Keyword Extraction. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3444, 66-77. [Repository]
Alpizar-Chacon, I., Sosnovsky, S., & Brusilovsky, P. (2023). Measuring the Quality of Domain Models Extracted from Textbooks with Learning Curves Analysis. In N. Wang, G. Rebolledo-Mendez, N. Matsuda, O. C. Santos, & V. Dimitrova (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Education: 24th International Conference, AIED 2023, Tokyo, Japan, July 3–7, 2023, Proceedings (pp. 804-809). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13916 LNAI). Springer. [DOI] [Repository]
Alpizar Chacon, I. (2023). Extraction of Knowledge Models from Textbooks. [Doctoral thesis 1 (Research UU / Graduation UU), Universiteit Utrecht]. Utrecht University. [DOI] [Repository]

2022

Scholarly publications

Alpizar-Chacon, I., & Sosnovsky, S. (2022). What's in an Index: Extracting Domain-specific Knowledge Graphs from Textbooks. In WWW 2022 - Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022 (pp. 966–976). Association for Computing Machinery. [DOI] [Repository]
Sabet, A. J., Alpizar-Chacon, I., Barria-Pineda, J., Brusilovsky, P., & Sosnovsky, S. (2022). Enriching Intelligent Textbooks with Interactivity: When Smart Content Allocation Goes Wrong. In S. Sosnovsky , P. Brusilovsky, & A. Lan (Eds.), iTextbooks 2022: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Intelligent Textbooks 2022 co-located with 23d International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2022) (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 3192). https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3192/ [Repository]

2021

Scholarly publications

Dresscher, L., Alpizar-Chacon, I., & Sosnovsky, S. (2021). Generation of assessment questions from textbooks enriched with knowledge models. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2895, 45-59. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2895/ [Repository]
Alpizar-Chacon, I., Barria-Pineda, J., Akhuseyinoglu, K., Sosnovsky, S., & Brusilovsky, P. (2021). Integrating textbooks with smart interactive content for learning programming. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2895, 4-18. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2895/ [Repository]
Alpizar-Chacon, I., & Sosnovsky, S. (2021). Knowledge models from PDF textbooks. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 27(1-2), 128-176. [DOI] [Repository]

2020

Scholarly publications

Alpizar-Chacon, I., van der Hart, M., Wiersma, Z. S., Theunissen, L. S. J., & Sosnovsky, S. (2020). Transformation of PDF textbooks into intelligent educational resources. In S. Sosnovsky, P. Brusilovsky, R. Baraniuk, & A. Lan (Eds.), iTextbooks 2020: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Intelligent Textbooks 2020 : co-located with 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2020) (Vol. 2674, pp. 4-16). CEUR WS. [Repository]
Alpizar-Chacon, I., & Sosnovsky, S. (2020). Order out of Chaos: Construction of Knowledge Models from PDF Textbooks. 1-10. Paper presented at 20th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, DocEng 2020, Virtual, Online, United States. [DOI]

2019

Scholarly publications

Alpizar-Chacon, I., & Sosnovsky, S. (2019). Expanding the web of knowledge: One textbook at a time. In HT 2019 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (pp. 9-18). Association for Computing Machinery. [DOI] [Repository]
Alpizar-Chacon, I., & Sosnovsky, S. (2019). Interlingua: Linking textbooks across different languages. 104-117. Paper presented at 1st Workshop on Intelligent Textbooks, iText 2019, Chicago, United States. [Repository]