Design an empathic virtual human to encourage and persuade learners in e-learning systems

1st ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for Distance Learning, MTDL 2009, Co-located with the 2009 ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 27-32

  Wang, Chin Yeh ^a   Chen, Gwo Dong ^a   Liu, Chen Chung ^a   Liu, Baw Jhiune ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Animated tutor; e Learning system; Empathic care; Human computer interaction; Virtual human

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE LEARNING; EMPATHIC CARE; HUMAN-COMPUTER; INTERACTIVE LEARNING SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFORMATION; LEARNING TIME; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

ANIMATION; E-LEARNING; EDUCATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MOTION PICTURES; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 72049089094     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1631111.1631117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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