Situation Creator: A Pedagogical Agent Creating Learning Opportunities

In a multi-user, real-time, and situation-based learning environment, the availability of enough and appropriate situations is crucial for success. In order to improve effectiveness and efficiency of learning, we develop a new type of pedagogical agent: situation creator. Such an agent intentionally creates specific situations in the shared virtual driving place according to users’ performance information. We conduct a pilot evaluation and found that the situation creators significantly increase the number of situations that a learner can expect to encounter while using the system.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: AIED
• Authors: Yongwu Miao, Heinz Ulrich Hoppe, Niels Pinkwart
• Keywords: AIED 2007, Appropriate Situations, Artificial Intelligence, Situation Creators, Situation-based Learning Environment