Adapting to student uncertainty improves tutoring dialogues

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-40

  Forbes Riley, Kate ^a   Litman, Diane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect adaptation; Computer tutor; Empirical evaluation; Spoken dialogue

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

AFFECT ADAPTATION; COMPUTER TUTOR; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; LEARNING EFFICIENCY; NON-ADAPTIVE SYSTEM; SPOKEN DIALOGUE; TUTORING DIALOGUES; UNCERTAINTY; USER PERCEPTIONS; USERS' SATISFACTIONS;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 73149084201     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-028-5-33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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