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AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Pedagogical Agents Trying on a Caring Mentor Role
: We describe the design and evaluation of an affective pedagogical agent persona for Intelligent Tutoring Systems. The goal of our research was to develop an agent embodying a per...
Konstantin Zakharov, Antonija Mitrovic, Lucy Johns...
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Tutorial Dialogue as Adaptive Collaborative Learning Support
In this paper we investigate the role of reflection in simulation based learning by manipulating two independent factors that each separately lead to significant learning effects, ...
Rohit Kumar, Carolyn Penstein Rosé, Yi-Chia...
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Applying Learning Factors Analysis to Build Stereotypic Student Models
This paper demonstrates how stereotypic student groups can be created to enhance cognitive models in computer tutors. Computer tutors use cognitive models to track what skills stud...
Anna N. Rafferty, Michael Yudelson
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Helping Courseware Authors to Build Ontologies: The Case of TM4L
The authors of topic map-based learning resources face major difficulties in constructing the underlying ontologies. In this paper we propose two approaches to address this problem...
Darina Dicheva, Christo Dichev
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
VL-PATSy: Facilitating vicarious learning via intelligent resource provision
This paper describes an adaptive system called VL-PATSy, an extension to an existing system (PATSy) that adds a mechanism for serving vicarious learning (VL) resources. Vicarious l...
Richard Cox, Jianxiong Pang
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
AIED Applications in Ill-Defined Domains
Vincent Aleven, Kevin D. Ashley, Collin Lynch, Nie...
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Topic Initiative in a Simulated Peer Dialogue Agent
One goal of our project is to create a dialogue agent that can behave as a student peer and collaborate with a human student to explain or diagnose data structures programs. A huma...
Pamela W. Jordan
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Constraint Authoring System: An Empirical Evaluation
Evaluation is an integral part of research that provides a true measure of effectiveness. This paper presents a study conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of CAS, a knowledge ac...
Pramuditha Suraweera, Antonija Mitrovic, Brent Mar...