Judicial Interrogatory Simulator

Judicial Interrogatory Simulator

An artificial intelligence tool building upon the Moot Court project

Background

Judicial Interrogatory Simulator (JIS), previously known as Moot Court, is a web-based simulated courtroom built for first-year law students. For first-year law students, Moot Court is an important part of their curriculum where they need to build confidence and participate in speech and argument in court. A moot session would involve two teams presenting their argument to a panel of judges. For JIS, we’ve simulated the Judge and courtroom for students to practice both their speech and arguments by having two versions: Classic and IntellaJudge. The classic version focused on articulating speech and time management. IntellaJudge version serves as an AI language tool providing live feedback and judge-like questions for students to practice delivering their argument and responding to questions from the judges.

Objective

Our project has four objectives. The first one is resolving remaining bugs or technical issues found from the previous Moot Court. We aim to fix and improve the issues from the previous Moot version. We’re also aiming to improve the previous Moot Court build by enhancing the visuals, animations and user experience. We want to upgrade the build by updating the UI and adding more judge motions. Our next objective is to build an AI Judge for students to have more support in the student’s preparation and performance and build an immersive experience while using the application. The last objective is developing a VR version of JIS that acts as an immersive simulated environment for students to further be exposed to courtroom experience.


Details

Project status: Active
Type of project: Teaching/Learning
Timeline: May 2023 – Present

The Team

Principal Investigators

  • Barbara Wang, UBC Peter A. Allard School of Law
  • Jon Festinger, K.C., UBC Peter A. Allard School of Law
  • Nikos Harris, K.C., UBC Peter A. Allard School of Law

Current Student Team

  • Leah Fernandez, Project Lead, Developer (May 2023 – Present)
  • Jazzy Wan, UX/UI Designer (September 2022 – Present)
  • Angelia Felicia, UX/UI Designer (September 2023 – Present)
  • Jiho Kim, UX/UI Designer (January 2023 – August 2023, January 2024 – Present)

Staff

  • Frederik Svendsen, Staff Developer (September 2023 – Present)

Past Student Team

    • Poh Leanne Kee, Developer (September 2023 – Decemeber)
    • William Watkins, Developer (May 2023 – August 2023)
    • Grace Bell, Volunteer (May 2023 – August 2023)