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AIEDU
2004
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13 years 11 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 ...
CHI
1997
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
The Persona Effect: Affective Impact of Animated Pedagogical Agents
Animated pedagogical agents that inhabit interactive learning environments can exhibit strikingly lifelike behaviors. In addition to providing problem-solving advice in response t...
James C. Lester, Sharolyn A. Converse, Susan H. Ka...
ICMI
2004
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
Agent and library augmented shared knowledge areas (ALASKA)
This paper reports on an NSF-funded effort now underway to integrate three learning technologies that have emerged and matured over the past decade; each has presented compelling ...
Eric R. Hamilton
IUI
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Choosing when to interact with learners
In this paper, we describe a method for pedagogical agents to choose when to interact with learners in interactive learning environments. This method is based on observations of h...
Lei Qu, Ning Wang, W. Lewis Johnson
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
The Politeness Effect: Pedagogical Agents and Learning Gains
Pedagogical agent research seeks to exploit Reeves and Nass’s Media Equation, which holds that users respond to interactive media as if they were social actors. Investigations ha...
Ning Wang, W. Lewis Johnson, Richard E. Mayer, Pao...
AIED
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
MathGirls: Toward Developing Girls' Positive Attitude and Self-Efficacy through Pedagogical Agents
MathGirls is a pedagogical-agent-based environment designed for high-school girls learning introductory algebra. Since females are in general more interested in interactive computi...
Yanghee Kim, Quan Wei, Beijie Xu, Youngah Ko, Vess...
DIGITEL
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Pedagogical Agents for Teacher Intervention in Educational Robotics Classes: Implementation Issues
Teachers working in robotics classes face a major problem: how to keep track on individual students’ or even small groups’ progress in a class of 30-40 students. A multi-agent...
Ilkka Jormanainen, Yuejun Zhang, Kinshuk, Erkki Su...
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Modeling Task-Based vs. Affect-based Feedback Behavior in Pedagogical Agents: An Inductive Approach
Affect has been the subject of increasing attention in cognitive accounts of learning. Many intelligent tutoring systems now seek to adapt pedagogy to student affective and motivat...
Jennifer L. Robison, Scott W. McQuiggan, James C. ...