Building and evaluating an intelligent pedagogical agent to improve the effectiveness of an educational game

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 6-13

  Conati, Cristina ^a   Zhao, Xiaohong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dynamic Bayesian Networks; Educational Games; Intelligent Agents; User Modeling

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; GAME THEORY; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; METADATA; MOTIVATION;

DYNAMIC BAYESIAN NETWORKS; EDUCATIONAL GAMES; ELECTRONIC GAMES; USER MODELING;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 15744382654     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/964442.964446     Document Type: Conference Paper

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