A virtual agent as vocabulary trainer: Iconic gestures help to improve learners' memory performance

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

Volumn 8108 LNAI, Issue , 2013, Pages 139-148

  Bergmann, Kirsten ^a   Macedonia, Manuela ^b,c  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

iconic gestures; memory performance; Vocabulary acquisition

Indexed keywords

BENEFICIAL EFFECTS; FOREIGN LANGUAGE; ICONIC GESTURES; LEARNING PERFORMANCE; MEMORY PERFORMANCE; SHORT TERM LEARNING; VOCABULARY ACQUISITION; VOCABULARY LEARNING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE;

INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS;

EID: 84883418892     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40415-3_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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