Oscar: An intelligent conversational agent tutor to estimate learning styles

2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Latham, Annabel M ^a   Crockett, Keeley A ^a   McLean, David A ^a   Edmonds, Bruce ^a   O'Shea, Karen ^b  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; INTELLIGENT SOLUTIONS; INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM; LEARNING CONTENTS; LEARNING STYLE; NOVEL METHODOLOGY; PILOT STUDIES; SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING; STUDENT LEARNING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ESTIMATION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 78549276158     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FUZZY.2010.5584064     Document Type: Conference Paper

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