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 "community agreements"—guidelines 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’s agreed-upon collaboration behaviors and as a reference for CoBi’s collaboration support.

CoBi uses speech recognition and language understanding to detect expressions of community agreements while students engage in collaborative activities. These examples, or ‘noticings’, 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.