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Learning with Pedagogical Agent: Effects of Transfer of Information Function
In order to investigate the effect of the transfer of information function of instructional agents on learning and whether different combinations of...
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Exploring acceptance of intelligent tutoring system with pedagogical agent among high school students
An intelligent tutoring system (ITS) provides universal access to education, which is an emerging paradigm of modern education. ITS is an educational...
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Comparing Photorealistic and Animated Embodied Conversational Agents in Serious Games: An Empirical Study on User Experience
Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) are paradigms of conversational user interfaces in the form of embodied characters. While ECAs offer various...
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Does the Voice Reveal More Emotion than the Face? a Study with Animated Agents
In general, people tend to identify the emotions of others from their facial expressions, however recent findings suggest that we may be more...
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What Teachers Would Expect from a Pedagogical Agent System Working at a Classroom Level: A Focus Group Study
Applications of pedagogical agent (PA) systems incorporating animated characters in school settings have mainly addressed students at an individual...
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The Effects of Body Gestures and Gender on Viewer’s Perception of Animated Pedagogical Agent’s Emotions
The goal of this research is to develop Animated Pedagogical Agents (APA) that can convey clearly perceivable emotions through speech, facial...
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Assessing the Social Agency of Pedagogical Agents in Adaptive Training Systems
Pedagogical agents (PAs) could be used to mimic a one-on-one human tutoring experience in adaptive training systems. Social agency theory (SAT) is...
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The Power of Voice to Convey Emotion in Multimedia Instructional Messages
This study examines an aspect of the role of emotion in multimedia learning, i.e., whether participants can recognize the instructor’s positive or...
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A Human or a Computer Agent: The Social and Cognitive Effects of an e-Learning Instructor’s Identity and Voice Cues
An instructor in an e-learning video can identify as a human or a computer agent. Relatedly, they can project a human-recorded voice or a...
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Enhancing digital literacy with an intelligent conversational agent for senior citizens in Thailand
Intelligent conversational agents have been implemented as virtual assistants in mobile applications to facilitate, engage, and interact with users...
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An embodied conversational agent coach to support societal participation learning by low-literate users
People of low literacy could benefit from automated support when learning about societal participation. We design an Embodied Conversational Agent...
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Do Learners Recognize and Relate to the Emotions Displayed By Virtual Instructors?
There has been much research on the effectiveness of animated pedagogical agents in an educational context, however there is little research about...
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Multi-agent Path Finding and Acting with Small Reflex-Based Mobile Robots
Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) represents a core problem in robotics. In its abstract form, the task is to navigate agents in an undirected graph to...
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Virtual intimacy in human-embodied conversational agent interactions: the influence of multimodality on its perception
Interacting with an embodied conversational agent (ECA) in a professional context addresses social considerations to satisfy customer-relationship....
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Animated Agents’ Facial Emotions: Does the Agent Design Make a Difference?
The paper reports ongoing research toward the design of multimodal affective pedagogical agents that are effective for different types of learners...
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Eye Tracking-Based Platform for Programming Teaching
Currently, the benefits of learning about Computer Science in general, and algorithms and programming in particular, are widely recognised. There is...
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An Approach to Facilitate Visitors’ Engagement with Contemporary Art in a Virtual Museum
In recent years, the exhibition of digitized Cultural Heritage in Virtual Museums has increased, while Cultural Heritage institutions are trying to...
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Preschoolers’ Understanding of a Teachable Agent-Based Game in Early Mathematics as Reflected in their Gaze Behaviors – an Experimental Study
This study investigated how preschool children processed and understood critical information in Magical Garden, a teachable agent-based play-&-learn...
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A systematic review of artificial intelligence technologies used for story writing
With the digital revolution of artificial intelligence (AI) in language education, the way how people write and create stories has been transformed...
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Effortlessly Populating Immersive Training Simulations with Background Characters
Immersive training simulations engage users in compelling environments with interactive and pedagogically meaningful activities. Integrating virtual...