The use of agents in human learning systems

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 767-774

  Sklar, Elizabeth ^a   Richards, Debbie ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Education; Larning; Pedagogical agents; Training

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

AGENT-BASED SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT; INTERACTIVE AGENT-BASED ENVIRONMENTS; JOB-RELATED SKILLS; PEDAGOGICAL AGENTS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 34247238311     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1160633.1160768     Document Type: Conference Paper

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