AI in Practice

Heymans AI Tutor

Heymans is an AI Tutor that helps students from the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences with their studies via a chat box. This digital teacher supports students with questions, conversations, and explanations, helping them to better understand what they are learning. The modular application uses Large Language Models (LLM's) to support various aspects of a course, such as seminars, practicals, providing feedback on homework and marking open-ended exam questions.

In academic year 2023/2024, Heymans was tested in the BA courses Overzicht van de Psychologie and Introduction to Psychology and has since been used in several other courses at the Faculty off Behavioural and Social Sciences.

Access

The tool can be accessed via https://heymans.cogsci.nl/chat, but does require you to sign in with a UG student number.

SlimStampen

SlimStampen was developed based on the research of Prof Hedderik van Rijn's research group. This tool uses cognitive AI to analyse students' answers to knowledge questions by which it assesses on which topics the students' knowledge is sufficient and on which it is lacking. After using SlimStampen, the most efficient study schedule can be drafted for each individual student, which leads to an overall improvement of their understanding of the material of 10 to 20 percent (circa one point higher on a test graded with the Dutch system, or reducing a students' study time by one day).