TSI-Enhanced Engaging Pedagogical Agents

Author

Leung, Steve ; Virwaney, Sandeep ; Lin, Fuhua ; Armstrong, Andrew J.

Author_Institution

Athabasca Univ., Athabasca, ON, Canada

fYear

2011

fDate

19-22 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

570

Lastpage

575

Abstract

This paper presents an ongoing project that builds engaging, affectionate and effective pedagogical agents in 3D virtual worlds for learning. Employing the theory of Transformed Social Interaction (TSI), we design pedagogical agents with abilities of self-representation, emotional states reasoning and situational awareness. A prototype of a virtual quiz show, Quizmaster, has been implemented to realize these abilities, and will be used to test for the effectiveness of the approach.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer games; inference mechanisms; multi-agent systems; social sciences computing; virtual reality; 3D virtual worlds; Quizmaster; TSI; emotional states reasoning; learning; pedagogical agent engagement; selfrepresentation; situational awareness; transformed social interaction theory; virtual quiz show; Avatars; Context; Games; OWL; Rendering (computer graphics); Servers; Three dimensional displays; BDI agent; multiagent systems; pedagogical agent; transformed social interaction(TSI) theory; virtual quiz games;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Internet of Things (iThings/CPSCom), 2011 International Conference on and 4th International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1976-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/iThings/CPSCom.2011.89

Filename

6142198