Learning by teaching: A new agent paradigm for educational software

Applied Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 19, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 363-392

  Biswas, Gautam ^a   Leelawong, Krittaya ^a   Schwartz, D ^b   Vye, Nancy ^c   Davis, Joan ^a   Belynne, Kadira ^a   Viswanath, Karun ^a   Brandsford, John ^a   Katzlberger, Thomas ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; EDUCATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

AGENT PARADIGM; DESKTOP METAPHORS; EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARES; TEACHABLE AGENTS (TA);

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 17044420783     PISSN: 08839514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08839510590910200     Document Type: Article

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