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AIED
2011
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Short and Long Term Benefits of Enjoyment and Learning within a Serious Game
Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) have been used for decades to teach students domain content or strategies. ITSs often struggle to maintain students’ interest and sustain a pr...
G. Tanner Jackson, Kyle B. Dempsey, Danielle S. Mc...
AIED
2011
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Students' Enjoyment of a Game-Based Tutoring System
Many Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) have started to incorporate game-based components in an attempt to improve student engagement during system interactions. iSTART-ME is a ne...
G. Tanner Jackson, Natalie L. Davis, Danielle S. M...
AIED
2011
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Self-assessment of Motivation: Explicit and Implicit Indicators in L2 Vocabulary Learning
Self-assessment motivation questionnaires have been used in classrooms yet many researchers find only a weak correlation between answers to these questions and learning. In this pa...
Kevin Dela Rosa, Maxine Eskenazi
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
The Impact of Interpretation Problems on Tutorial Dialogue
Supporting natural language input may improve learning in intelligent tutoring systems. However, interpretation errors are unavoidable and require an effective recovery policy. We...
Myroslava Dzikovska, Johanna D. Moore, Natalie B. ...
AIEDU
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
Be Brief, And They Shall Learn: Generating Concise Language Feedback for a Computer Tutor
To investigate whether more concise Natural Language feedback improves learning, we developed two Natural Language generators (DIAG-NLP1 and DIAG-NLP2), to provide feedback in an I...
Barbara Di Eugenio, Davide Fossati, Susan M. Halle...
JBI
2008
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13 years 10 months ago
A collaborative medical case authoring environment based on the UMLS
In this paper, we present a novel collaborative authoring tool that was designed to allow medical teachers to formalize and visualize their knowledge for medical intelligent tutor...
Siriwan Suebnukarn, Peter Haddawy, Phattanapon Rhi...
AIEDU
2004
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13 years 10 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 ...
CLEIEJ
2007
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13 years 10 months ago
ALLEGRO: Teaching/Learning Multi-Agent Environment using Instructional Planning and Cases- Based Reasoning (CBR)
This paper presents a description of the environments of individualized learning (Based on the Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS), the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (C...
Rosa M. Viccari, Demetrio A. Ovalle, Jovani A. Jim...
COMSIS
2006
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13 years 11 months ago
Constraint-Based Knowledge Representation for Individualized Instruction
Traditional knowledge representations were developed to encode complete, explicit and executable programs, a goal that makes them less than ideal for representing the incomplete an...
Stellan Ohlsson, Antonija Mitrovic
AIEDU
2007
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13 years 11 months ago
The Difficulty Factors Approach to the Design of Lessons in Intelligent Tutor Curricula
We present an approach to designing intelligent tutoring systems, termed the Difficulty Factors Approach. In this approach, the designer investigates, at each iteration of the desi...
Ryan Shaun Joazeiro de Baker, Albert T. Corbett, K...