This half-day tutorial will be led by the original creators of AutoTutor, a prototype conversation-based adaptive instructional systems (CbAIS). The tutorial will inform you about (a) the theoretical foundations, enabling technologies, and practical applications of CbITS through hands-on and worked-out examples and (b) simple, common, and advanced data analysis methods that apply to the analysis of learner data. This tutorial is formulated for beginners and has no prerequisites. Professionals (corporate officers, program managers, scientists, and engineers) from industry, academia, and the gov...