The “joyful learning” is a kind of learning experience which could make learner feel pleasure in the learning process. A suitable learning environment with proper learning sequence is essential for learning, especially for children who are still in the early development period. In classrooms of today, we are more likely to see academically oriented teacher directed instructions than active lear...

Engagement has been viewed as an important construct to understand students’ learning performances in classroom settings. Taking an interactive perspective, the study investigates ninth graders’ cognitive, emotional, and behavioral engagement in teacher-centered (TC) and student-centered (SC) technology-enhanced classrooms. 54 students from two science classes in Taiwan participated in this stu...

Our project concerns the improvement of computer-based learning by the means of a lifelike presence in the learning environment. The approach combines Intelligent Tutoring System works with research on human emotion in Cognitive Science, Psychology and Communication. According for the relations between emotion, cognition and action in contextual learning, we propose an ITS model based on a mult...

Revised: September 30th, 2007 ABSTRACT. In this paper, we discuss the social intelligence that renders affective behaviours of intelligent agents, and its application to a collaborative learning system. We argue that socially appropriate affective behaviours would provide a new dimension for collaborative learning systems. The description of a system to recognize the six universal facial expres...

Affective computing has been the focus of artificial intelligence for several years. The amalgamation of affective computing and facial expression recognition technique has lead to the possibility of harmonious human-computer interaction in E-learning. But the fact of E-learning is that emotional absences between computer and E-learner are serious. This paper researches into the learning emotio...

Situational interest is the positive affect and sustained attention triggered by particular contexts (Hidi & Renninger, 2006). Some studies show interesting information enhances learning while others find it hinders learning, producing the seductive detail effect. Limited evidence suggests the seductive detail effect is weakened if emotionally interesting information is relevant to main ideas. ...

To ensure learning, game-based learning environments must incorporate assessment mechanisms, e.g. Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs). ITSs are focused on recognising and influencing the learner’s emotional or motivational states. This research focuses on designing and implementing an affective student model for intelligent gaming, which reasons about the learner’s emotional state from cognitiv...

This paper proposes a hybrid approach based on neuro fuzzy model and emotional learning for prediction of stock exchange market. Neuro fuzzy models are powerful in modeling and forecasting highly nonlinear and complex time series. The emotional Learning, which is successfully used in bounded rational decision making, is introduced as an appropriate method to achieve particular goals in the pred...

Recent psychological studies highlight emotional aspects, and they show an important role within individual learning processes. Hereby, positive emotions were supposed to positively influence learning and achievement processes and negative ones do the contrary. In this study, an educational unit “ecosystem lake” was used during which achievement (three tests) and emotional variables (interest, ...

The central amygdala (CeA) is a key structure at the limbic-motor interface regulating stress responses and emotional learning. Endocannabinoid (eCB) signaling is heavily implicated in the regulation of stress-response physiology and emotional learning processes; however, the role of eCBs in the modulation of synaptic efficacy in the CeA is not well understood. Here we describe the subcellular ...