Community Builder (CoBi) AI Partner

The Community Builder(CoBi) AI partner helps groups of learners improve their collaboration skills by focusing on how they interact and work together. CoBi works by setting so-called 鈥漜ommunity agreements鈥濃攇uidelines on how a learning community wants to collaborate. Co-negotiated examples of community agreements are entered into the CoBi system to serve as a reminder of the community鈥檚 agreed-upon collaboration behaviors and as a reference for CoBi鈥檚 collaboration support.

CoBi uses speech recognition and language understanding to detect expressions of community agreements while students engage in collaborative activities. These examples, or 鈥榥oticings鈥, are then turned into various types of visual feedback that the learning community can use to think expansively about collaboration as a foundational skill and how it manifests in co-located collaboration.