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Citing Iris

When referencing Iris in academic work, please cite the ITiCSE 2024 system paper as the primary reference:

Patrick Bassner, Eduard Frankford, and Stephan Krusche. 2024. Iris: An AI-Driven Virtual Tutor for Computer Science Education. In Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE '24), July 8--10, 2024, Milan, Italy. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3649217.3653543

BibTeX​

@inproceedings{bassner2024iris,
  author    = {Bassner, Patrick and Frankford, Eduard and Krusche, Stephan},
  title     = {{Iris}: An {AI}-Driven Virtual Tutor for Computer Science Education},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology
               in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE '24)},
  year      = {2024},
  month     = {July},
  address   = {Milan, Italy},
  publisher = {ACM},
  doi       = {10.1145/3649217.3653543}
}

Citing Specific Aspects​

Depending on which aspect of Iris your work relates to, you may want to cite additional papers:

AspectRecommended CitationDOI
System design and architectureBassner, Frankford & Krusche (ITiCSE 2024)10.1145/3649217.3653543
Qualitative user experienceBassner, Lottner & Krusche (Koli Calling 2025)10.1145/3769994.3770025
Scaffolding effectiveness / RCT resultsBassner, Lenk-Ostendorf et al. (C&E:AI 2026)10.1016/j.caeai.2025.100537
Software engineering education contextFrankford, Sauerwein et al. (ICSE-SEET 2024)10.1145/3639474.3640061

Examples​

If your paper discusses how AI tutors compare to general-purpose chatbots in controlled settings, cite the RCT:

@article{bassner2026less,
  author  = {Bassner, Patrick and Lenk-Ostendorf, Ben and Beinstingel, Ramona
             and Wasner, Tobias and Krusche, Stephan},
  title   = {Less stress, better scores, same learning: The dissociation of
             performance and learning in {AI}-supported programming education},
  journal = {Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence},
  volume  = {10},
  pages   = {100537},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.1016/j.caeai.2025.100537}
}

If your paper discusses student perceptions and qualitative experiences with context-aware tutoring, cite the mixed-methods study:

@inproceedings{bassner2025towards,
  author    = {Bassner, Patrick and Lottner, Anna and Krusche, Stephan},
  title     = {Towards Understanding the Impact of Context-Aware {AI} Tutors and
               General-Purpose {AI} Chatbots on Student Learning},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 25th Koli Calling International Conference on
               Computing Education Research (Koli Calling '25)},
  year      = {2025},
  month     = {November},
  address   = {Koli, Finland},
  publisher = {ACM},
  doi       = {10.1145/3769994.3770025}
}

For a complete list of all publications with BibTeX entries, see Publications.