Title :
A formal model of emotional pedagogical agents in intelligent tutoring systems
Author :
Sun Yu ; Li Zhiping ; Xie Jili
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Yunnan Normal Univ., Kunming, China
Abstract :
After discussing and formalizing domain knowledge representation and user models, a formal model of emotional pedagogical agents in intelligent tutoring systems is presented in this paper, and the functionalities of model are described in detail. This kind of emotional pedagogical agent considers users´ emotional statues during the process of producing personalized learning units dynamically based on the information provided by user models and domain knowledge, in order to improve the self-adaptability and pedagogical effects of the system.
Keywords :
intelligent tutoring systems; knowledge representation; domain knowledge representation; emotional pedagogical agents; formal model; intelligent tutoring systems; user emotional statues; user models; Adaptation models; Computational modeling; Computers; Education; Indexes; Sun; domain knowledge representation; emotional pedagogical agents; intelligent tutoring systems; user models;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Science & Education (ICCSE), 2013 8th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Colombo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4464-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICCSE.2013.6553931
