Anthropomorphic virtual agents can serve as powerful technological mediators to impact
motivational outcomes such as self-efficacy and attitude change. Such anthropomorphic …

Background Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) are advanced human-like interfaces
that engage users in natural face-to-face conversations and interactions. These traits …

The aim of the current study is to analyze the relationship among teachers' TPACK levels,
students' self-efficacy and the academic achievement. Another purpose of this study is to …

This paper describes the design and empirical validation of three distinct pedagogical agent
roles (Expert, Motivator, and Mentor) for college students within the MIMIC (Multiple …

In the first of two experimental studies, 312 students were randomly assigned to one of 8
conditions, where agents differed by ethnicity (Black, White), gender (male, female), and …

Visual, behavioral and verbal cues for gender are often used in designing virtual agents to
take advantage of their stereotypical effects on the users. However, recent studies point …

This experimental study employed a 2× 2× 2 factorial design to investigate the effects of type
of instruction (procedural module, attitudinal module), deictic gesture (presence, absence) …

In computer-assisted instruction, primary causes for the main problems are student's feeling
lonely and lack of social learning environment. Pedagogical agents, which could enable …

The current work investigates the use of interface agents as anthropomorphic social models
to influence young women's negative beliefs and low self-efficacy regarding engineering …

Pedagogical theory of today gives high priority to social components of learning. Within the
field of computer supported learning there are many attempts to acknowledge this. One …