Title :
Social Agents to Improve Collaboration on an Educational Portal
Author :
Boff, Elisa ; Santos, Elder Rizzon ; Vicari, Rosa Maria
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Caxias do Sul Univ.
Abstract :
Cooperative learning is changing the learning environments design. Intelligent tutoring systems, multi-agent systems, affective computing and virtual characters, are techniques and resources to improve the individual and personalized learning. In this research direction, this paper presents a socio-affective agent whose reasoning is based on individual aspects of the student, as affective states, personality and acceptance, and group aspects, as cohesion. This socio-affective agent is being integrated in the AMPLIA environment, an intelligent probabilistic multi-agent environment to support the diagnostic reasoning development and the diagnostic hypotheses modeling of domains with complex and uncertain knowledge, like medical area. In order to provide semantic interoperability between the environment´s agents we are using an OWL (Web Ontology Language)
Keywords :
groupware; inference mechanisms; intelligent tutoring systems; multi-agent systems; ontologies (artificial intelligence); AMPLIA environment; OWL; Web Ontology Language; affective computing; agent reasoning; cooperative learning; diagnostic hypotheses modeling; diagnostic reasoning development; educational portal collaboration; individual learning; intelligent probabilistic multiagent environment; intelligent tutoring systems; learning environment design; multiagent systems; personalized learning; semantic interoperability; social agents; socio-affective agent; virtual characters; Collaboration; Computer aided instruction; Computer science; Intelligent agent; Intelligent systems; Internet; Medical diagnostic imaging; Multiagent systems; OWL; Portals;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2006. Sixth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kerkrade
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2632-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2006.1652587