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AIEDU
2004
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13 years 5 months ago
Children's Interactions with Animated Agents in an Intelligent Tutoring System
Although animated pedagogical agents are frequently found in intelligent tutoring systems and interactive learning environments, their effect on users' attitudes and learning ...
Judy Robertson, Beth Cross, Hamish Macleod, Peter ...
ITS
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
A Time for Emoting: When Affect-Sensitivity Is and Isn't Effective at Promoting Deep Learning
We have developed and evaluated an affect-sensitive version of AutoTutor, a dialogue based ITS that simulates human tutors. While the original AutoTutor is sensitive to learners’...
Sidney K. D'Mello, Blair Lehman, Jeremiah Sullins,...
AIED
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Can Virtual Human Build Rapport and Promote Learning?
Research show that teacher's nonverbal immediacy can have a positive impact on student's cognitive learning and affect [31]. This paper investigates the effectiveness of ...
Ning Wang, Jonathan Gratch
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
The intermediary agent's brain: supporting learning to collaborate at the inter-personal level
We discuss the design of the Intermediary Agent's brain, the control module of an embodied conversational virtual peer in a simulation game aimed at providing learning experi...
Juan Martínez-Miranda, Bernhard Jung, Sabin...
AAI
2005
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13 years 5 months ago
Learning By Teaching: A New Agent Paradigm For Educational Software
This paper discusses Betty's Brain, a teachable agent in the domain of river ecosystems that combines learning by teaching with self-regulation mentoring to promote deep lear...
Gautam Biswas, Krittaya Leelawong, Daniel Schwartz...