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A well-established effect of animated agents in educational and other contexts is their potential to motivate and engage. “Increased motivation in users” is also one of the more frequent answers given to the question, “What is gained by adding an animated pedagogical agent to an intelligent tutoring system?” To further develop and exploit this potential, there are, however, several issues that ...

Applying intelligent agent technologies to support human learning activities has been the subject of recent work that reaches across computer science and education disciplines. This article discusses agent-based approaches that have been designed to address a range of pedagogical and/or curricular tasks. Three types of agents are identified in the literature: pedagogical agents, peerlearning ag...

Lifelike animated agents for knowledge based learning en vironments can provide timely customized advice to support leaners problem solving activities By drawing on a rich repertoire of emotive behaviors to exhibit contextually appropriate facial expressions and emo tive gestures these agents could exploit the visual channel to more ef fectively communicate with learners To address these issues...

Intelligent Pedagogical Agents (IPAs) are software agents which have educational purposes. They are able to communicate, cooperate, discuss, and guide other students or agents. Some studies conclude that if agents look like and interact as humans, they will enhance the learning process and the motivation of the students. This paper presents a proposal to add Semantic Web Knowledge to Intelligen...

We report a study on student’s attitudes to a visually androgynous in comparison to a male and a female Teachable Agent (TA). Results were that overall the androgynous agent was preferred over the female and male agents. A visually androgynous agent does not embody categorical gender attributes. At the same time it does not have to be genderless but instead represent both maleness and femalenes...

Advances in visualization and networking technologies make it possible to construct virtual learning environments, i.e., virtual worlds in which learners can immerse themselves. This paper examines issues involved in the design of computer-generated virtual agents with which learners may interact in such environments. Functions common to intelligent tutoring systems, such as student modeling an...

Advances in agent and Web technologies are making it increasingly possible to incorporate guidebots, or animated pedagogical agents, in a wide range of Webbased learning materials. If designed properly these guidebots can promote deeper learning and improve the learner's subjective experience. Guidebots exploit a person's natural tendency to interact socially with computers, as documented by Re...

The use of animated pedagogical agents with emotional capabilities in an interactive learning environment has been found to have a positive impact on learners. Aristotle contended that three elements; emotion, logic, and character are crucial for successful persuasion, i.e. in winning others over to one’s way of thinking. We have designed a pedagogical agent that acts in an interactive learning...

From the educational point of view, learning by mistake could be influential teaching method, especially for teaching/learning Computer Science (CS), and/or Information Technologies (IT). As learning programming is very difficult and hard task, perhaps even more difficult and extremely demanding job to teach novices how to make correct computers programs. The concept of design pedagogical patte...