Pedagogical agents for personalized multi-user virtual environments

International Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 772-776

  Ashoori, Mar Yam ^a   Shen, Zhiqi ^b   Miao, Chunyan ^b   Peyton, Liam ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dempster Shafer belief accumulation; Multi user virtual environments; Pedagogical agents; Personalization; User model

Indexed keywords

EID: 69949147205     PISSN: 0949149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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