Toward Measurement of Conversational Interactivity in COMPS Computer Mediated Problem-Solving Dialogues
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This paper reports on experiments in measuring the general level of conversational interactivity in COMPS problemsolving dialogues. COMPS is a web-delivered computermediated problem solving environment for student collaborative exploratory learning. The primary mode of interaction is typed dialogue. We anticipate that the computer will provide a status display to aid the instructor, who is effectively looking over the shoulders of the students as they work. Toward the goal of computer monitoring of conversation quality, we have analyzed dialogue turns for Initiate and Respond dialogue moves as prescribed by Conversation Analysis theory. Many of our dialogues are quite interactive by this measure. However computer tagging of individual turns as Initiate or Respond has proved difficult. Here we show what makes such tagging difficult in our problem-solving environment. We also propose that there are shallow measures of overall interactivity that may correlate with how much the students are responding, without the need to correctly tag individual dialogue turns.
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تاریخ انتشار 2014