Adaptive tutoring in an intelligent conversational agent system

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

Volumn 7430 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 148-167

  Latham, Annabel ^a   Crockett, Keeley ^a   McLean, David ^a   Edmonds, Bruce ^b  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive System; Conversational Agent; Intelligent Tutoring System; Learning Style

Indexed keywords

CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM; LEARNING EXPERIENCES; LEARNING STYLE; NATURAL LANGUAGES; POSITIVE TESTS;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 84868359347     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-34645-3_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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