Promoting academically productive talk with conversational agent interventions in collaborative learning settings

S Tegos, S Demetriadis, A Karakostas - Computers & Education, 2015 - Elsevier
Research on computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) and conversational
pedagogical agents has strongly emphasized the value of providing dynamic dialogue …

From learning companions to testing companions: Experience with a teachable agent motivates students' performance on summative tests

B Sjödén, A Gulz - Artificial Intelligence in Education: 17th International …, 2015 - Springer
In three quasi-experimental studies, we investigated the effects of placing a Teachable
Agent (TA) from a math game in a digital summative test. We hypothesized that the TA would …

[PDF][PDF] Pedagogical agent models for massive online education.

M Yee-King, M d'Inverno - AInF@ IJCAI, 2015 - academia.edu
The effective implementation of Massively Open Online Courses poses fascinating
challenges. We address two such challenges using an agent based approach, employing …

Pedagogical agents in 3D learning environments

T Terzidou, T Tsiatsos - Encyclopedia of Information Science and …, 2015 - igi-global.com
Background PAs inherit the main attributes of the intelligent agents. Figure 2, graphically
presents the hierarchical analysis of 3D intelligent PAs' structure. As mentioned above, PAs …

[PDF][PDF] Designing and Evaluating an Affective Information Literacy Game

YR Guo - Bull. IEEE Tech. Comm. Digit. Libr., 2015 - bulletin.jcdl.org
The objective of this PhD research project is to examine the influence of EA's affective
expressions on students' learning motivation, enjoyment and learning efficacy in an IL game …