Supporting Conceptual Awareness with Pedagogical Agents

Supporting Conceptual Awareness with Pedagogical Agents

This paper describes a series of efforts in building and conceptualizing software agents for distributed collaborative learning. The agents are referred to as pedagogical agents. We have integrated pedagogical agents within two collaborative environments, TeamWave Workplace and Future Learning Environment. The role of agents in these environments differs from past work on software agents in the...

Supporting Learner Social Relationships with Enculturated Pedagogical Agents

Augmented Gardening System with Personalized Pedagogical Agents

1 Abstract—Recently, many researchers have studied on animated pedagogical agents to improve students' learning experience in educational systems. In this paper, we describe how personalized pedagogical agents can be applied into AR educational applications. We have developed the augmented gardening system which provides users with opportunity to explore physiological and environmental consider...

Pedagogical Agents that 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 human tutors coaching students in on-line learning tasks. It takes into account the focus of attention of the learner, the learner’s current task, and expected time required to perform the task. A Bayesian network model...

Designing Culturally Authentic Pedagogical Agents

Ethnicity has been defined primarily by the physical appearance of pedagogical agents. Research has shown that shared ethnicity between the agent and the user reflects in a positive perception of the agent's capabilities and provides motivation for learning tasks for students of color (Baylor, 2005; Nass et al., 2000). However, research has failed to examine what kinds of implementations of ped...