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ITS
2000
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
DT Tutor: A Decision-Theoretic, Dynamic Approach for Optimal Selection of Tutorial Actions
DT Tutor uses a decision-theoretic approach to select tutorial actions for coached problem solving that are optimal given the tutor's beliefs and objectives. It employs a mode...
R. Charles Murray, Kurt VanLehn
ARGMAS
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Personality-Based Practical Reasoning
In virtual training scenarios, agent technology can be used to build a virtual tutor that assists a student during training. In a dialogue using argumentation schemes, the virtual ...
Thomas L. van der Weide, Frank Dignum, John-Jules ...
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
The Assistment Builder: A Rapid Development Tool for ITS
Intelligent Tutoring Systems are notoriously costly to construct [1], and require PhD level experience in cognitive science and rule based programming. The goal of this research wa...
Terrence E. Turner, Michael A. Macasek, Goss Nuzzo...
ITS
2010
Springer
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13 years 9 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,...
HCI
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Responding to Learners' Cognitive-Affective States with Supportive and Shakeup Dialogues
This paper describes two affect-sensitive variants of an existing intelligent tutoring system called AutoTutor. The new versions of AutoTutor detect learners' boredom, confusi...
Sidney K. D'Mello, Scotty D. Craig, Karl Fike, Art...