In intelligent tutoring systems, embodied pedagogical agents have been used for the many benefits they provide including their affective influence. The agents are designed based on specific criterion including competency, gender, ethnicity or behavioural tendencies, to optimise their effect on a targeted ...
Abstract Recent research on conversational agents emphasises the need to build affective conversational systems with social intelligence. Politeness is an integral part of socially appropriate and affective conversational behaviour, e.g. consider the difference in the pragmatic effect of realizing the same ...
inextricably bound to learning. We are not alone in this view. Over the last few years there have been sustained efforts to incorporate assessments of the learner’s affect into the pedagogical strategies of ITSs. Kort, Reilly, and Picard 2 proposed a comprehensive four-quadrant model that expli...
Such approaches provide much needed affective conditions that 'hook' students in, encourage dialogue and help them to realise their potential as learners. Outcomes of this work signal an epistemological and pedagogical shift toward understanding bodies and creativity as agents of learning and knowledg...