Learning from an avatar video instructor: The role of gesture mimicry

NA Vest, ER Fyfe, MJ Nathan, MW Alibali - Gesture, 2020 - jbe-platform.com
Teachers often produce gestures, and, in some cases, students mimic their teachers'
gestures and adopt them into their own repertoires. However, little research has explored …

The effect of metaphoric gestures on schematic understanding of instruction performed by a pedagogical conversational agent

D Hasegawa, S Shirakawa, N Shioiri, T Hanawa… - … Conference, LCT 2015 …, 2015 - Springer
In this paper, we examine the impact of metaphoric gestures performed by Pedagogical
Conversational Agent (PCA) on learners' memorization of technical terms, understanding of …

Web-based avatar represented lecture viewer toward interactive e-Lecture performed by 3D avatar

A Takeuchi, D Hasegawa… - 2015 IEEE Global …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To introduce interactivity in e-learning, HTML5 and JavaScript have been widely used for
years. And recent advancements of WebGL, JavaScript API for computer graphic …

Generating Locative Gestures from Speech for an Animated Pedagogical Agent

SRK Kappagantula - 2018 - search.proquest.com
Abstract The presence of Animated Pedagogical Agents (APAs) in education is increasing
day-by-day. They are being used in online courses as well as research studies. Therefore …

Innovations in the continuing professional development of foreign language teachers: from blended learning to visual-based learning, choices of emotional and …

V Toci - Research on Education and Media, 2016 - sciendo.com
In this study, starting from the profile of our trainees and from the risks highlighted by some
studies in terms of the use of video in education, we will analyse the motivations and choices …