When sex, drugs, and violence enter the classroom: Conversations between adolescents and a female pedagogical agent

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 292-301

  Veletsianos, George ^a   Scharber, Cassandra ^a   Doering, Aaron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent abuse; Agent misuse; Computer mediated discourse analysis; Conversational agents; Pedagogical agents; Social studies

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

AGENT ABUSE; AGENT DESIGN; AGENT MISUSE; COMPUTER MEDIATED DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; PEDAGOGICAL AGENTS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 42749087779     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2008.02.007     Document Type: Article

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