We care about you: Incorporating pet characteristics with educational agents through reciprocal caring approach

Computers and Education

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1081-1088

  Chen, Zhi Hong ^a  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Elementary education; Interactive learning environments; Multimedia hypermedia systems

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL AGENTS; ELEMENTARY EDUCATION; ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS; INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT; MULTIMEDIA/HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; STUDENT LEARNING;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; STUDENTS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84864074040     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2012.05.015     Document Type: Article

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