Extending a teachable agent with a social conversation module - Effects on student experiences and learning

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6738 LNAI, Issue , 2011, Pages 106-114

  Gulz, Agneta ^a   Haake, Magnus ^b   Silvervarg, Annika ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

conversational pedagogical agent; Educational game in mathematics; off task interaction; socially oriented conversation; teachable agent

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL GAME IN MATHEMATICS; OFF-TASK INTERACTION; PEDAGOGICAL AGENTS; SOCIALLY ORIENTED CONVERSATION; TEACHABLE AGENTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 79959308002     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21869-9_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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