Setting Cyber-Instructors in Cyberspace

Author

Wai, Leon Ho Chiau ; Sourin, Alexei

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2010

fDate

20-22 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

314

Lastpage

318

Abstract

Creating cyber-instructors or virtual humans in cyberspace capable of maintaining conversation with learners as well as offering different educational services may become an excellent teaching tool implementing personal mentoring in Cyber worlds. In this paper, a framework of the cyber-instructor based on the commonly available software tools is proposed. The components of the framework are replaceable and can be easily tuned to particular educational needs and technical implementations. Several implementations of the cyber-instructor with various looks and feels of the HCI have been studied and implemented such as 3D talking avatar, web chat with multimedia components and chat engine communication.

Keywords

avatars; computer aided instruction; human computer interaction; multimedia computing; 3D talking avatar; HCI; Web chat; chat engine communication; cyber instructors; cyberspace; multimedia components; software tools; virtual humans; Artificial intelligence; Avatars; Databases; Engines; Three dimensional displays; Web server; AI agents; Cyber-learning; E-learning; Talking Agents;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cyberworlds (CW), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8301-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4215-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CW.2010.20

Filename

5655226