Building a general purpose pedagogical agent in a web-based multimedia clinical simulation system for medical education

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 216-225

  Cheng, Yuh Ming ^a   Chen, Lih Shyang ^b   Huang, Hui Chung ^b   Weng, Sheng Feng ^b   Chen, Yong Guo ^b   Lin, Chyi Her ^c  

^a SHU TE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Computer assisted learning; E Learning for medical education; Human computer interaction; Learning companions; Pedagogical agent; Virtual peers

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FEEDBACK; CLINICAL SIMULATION; COMPUTER-ASSISTED LEARNING; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; EDUCATIONAL TOOLS; GENERAL PURPOSE; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; JUST IN TIME; LEARNING COMPANIONS; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; LEARNING PROCESS; MEDICAL CENTER; MEDICAL SIMULATIONS; NATIONAL CHENG-KUNG UNIVERSITY; PEDAGOGICAL AGENT; PEDAGOGICAL AGENTS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; THEORETICAL ASPECTS; VIRTUAL PEERS; WEB-BASED LEARNING SYSTEMS; WEB-BASED MULTIMEDIA;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; E-LEARNING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION SERVICES; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 84862832871     PISSN: 19391382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TLT.2009.18     Document Type: Article

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