CASE STUDY: The Catt Sat on Mat

Abstract

A project to develop an intelligent tutoring system for adult literacy students. This case study is a light‐hearted look back at the development of the project over the last 20 months, the successes, the lessons learned and the project outcomes. It describes the initial research phase of the project through the system development to the field trials of the system, which are still taking place. The author describes resourcing issues (people) which arose at various points in the project and the ways in which these problems were resolved. She describes research that took place in order to develop a grammar checker, and the way in which the research findings were implemented and integrated into the system.