Learning by Communicating in Natural Language With Conversational Agents

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 374-380

  Graesser, Arthur C ^a   Li, Haiying ^a   Forsyth, Carol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

conversational agents; intelligent tutoring systems; learning technologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908613053     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721414540680     Document Type: Article

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