Barry Kort is a Visiting Scientist at the MIT Media Lab.

See the Learning Companion page for information on Barry Kort's project work at the MIT Media Lab.

See also Barry Kort's Personal Web Page on MuseNet.

Here are the Papers from the 2002 AAAI Fall Symposium on Etiquette for Human-Computer Work.

Here are the slides from the 2004 LearnTec talk on Emotions and Learning. The IEEE Education Society discussion archive on this talk is online here: Cognition, Affect, and Learning.

Here are some recent ideas on Drama Theory.

QuickTime Movies

These are QuickTime movies recorded by Catalina Laserna.

MicroMuse and Communitas is a guest lecture by Barry Kort, delivered to a joint session of Catalina's class at Harvard on Educational Technology and David Albert's course on Virtual Communities. In this talk, Barry reviews the origins and history of MicroMuse, its contributions to educational technology, and his "Communitas Model" for building online communities.

Emotions and Learning is a guest lecture by Barry Kort, delivered to Catalina's class at Harvard on Educational Technology. In this talk, Barry presents the Theory of Emotions and Learning.

Muse at RosaParks School is a video shot by Catalina Laserna showing a group of sixth graders at the RosaParks School in Cambridge MA learning to use the Muse.

To view the above movies, you should use the QuickTime Player or QuickTime Browser PlugIn. These are very long movies -- more than an hour each, with file sizes exceeding 100 MB. Therefore you want to be sure your QuickTime Player or QuickTime Browser PlugIn can stream them rather than save them to disk.