Pedagogical agents as learning companions: The impact of agent emotion and gender

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 220-234

  Kim, Y ^a   Baylor, A L ^b   Shen, E ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective computing; Human computer interaction; Learning companions; Pedagogical agents; Social interaction; Virtual peers

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248387342     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: 13652729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2006.00210.x     Document Type: Article

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