Pedagogical agents as social models for engineering: The influence of agent appearance on female choice

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 125, Issue , 2005, Pages 65-72

  Baylor, Amy L ^a   Plant, E Ashby ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

'CURRENT; AGENT APPEARANCE; LEARN+; PEDAGOGICAL AGENTS; SOCIAL MODELS; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 85139054787     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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