An investigation of the differences between robot and virtual learning companions' influences on students' engagement

Proceedings - DIGITEL 2007: First IEEE International Workshop on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 41-48

  Hsu, Sheng Hui ^a   Chou, Chih Yueh ^c   Chen, Fei Ching ^b   Wang, Yuan Kai ^d   Chan, Tak Wai ^a  

^a Graduate Institute of Network Learning Technology   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROBOT LEARNING COMPANION;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; LEARNING SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ROBOTS;

EID: 34547655968     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DIGITEL.2007.10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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