The lack of a common language and mutual understanding between the disciplines of systems development/software engineering and HCI does create challenges for both teaching and pra...
While human tutors typically interact with students using spoken dialogue, most computer dialogue tutors are text-based. We have conducted two experiments comparing typed and spoke...
We sought to create a social embodied conversational agent to support group interactions, using ‘balance theory’ from social science research on human-human relations. We cond...
In many cases, practitioners and researchers of HumanComputer Interaction and Usability Engineering rely on users' subjective product quality assessments. Such an assessment ...
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,...