TY - GEN
T1 - Students’ responses to a humanlike approach to elicit emotion in an educational virtual world
AU - Ranjbartabar, Hedieh
AU - Richards, Deborah
AU - Makhija, Anupam
AU - Jacobson, Michael J.
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - In the context of an educational virtual world to assist students to gain research inquiry skills, we are seeking to use Animated Pedagogical Agents (APAs) to capture students’ emotional states and provide motivational support. We have conducted a classroom study involving an Educational Virtual World for acquiring and testing knowledge of biological concepts and science inquiry skills with a total of 30 students in Years 8–9 at a co-educational selective school. To ascertain their emotional feelings while using the VW, students encountered five APAs who greeted them by inquiring “How are you?” We found students were generally willing to disclose their emotional feeling and there were differences in emotions reported based on gender. The approach captures emotions during learning but is minimally disruptive and could aid relationship development with the APA while providing a means to validate other emotion elicitation methods.
AB - In the context of an educational virtual world to assist students to gain research inquiry skills, we are seeking to use Animated Pedagogical Agents (APAs) to capture students’ emotional states and provide motivational support. We have conducted a classroom study involving an Educational Virtual World for acquiring and testing knowledge of biological concepts and science inquiry skills with a total of 30 students in Years 8–9 at a co-educational selective school. To ascertain their emotional feelings while using the VW, students encountered five APAs who greeted them by inquiring “How are you?” We found students were generally willing to disclose their emotional feeling and there were differences in emotions reported based on gender. The approach captures emotions during learning but is minimally disruptive and could aid relationship development with the APA while providing a means to validate other emotion elicitation methods.
KW - Animated pedagogical agents
KW - Educational virtual worlds
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85049381000&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-93846-2_54
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-93846-2_54
M3 - Conference proceeding contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85049381000
SN - 9783319938455
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 291
EP - 295
BT - Artificial Intelligence in Education
A2 - Penstein Rosé, Carolyn
A2 - Martínez-Maldonado, Roberto
A2 - Hoppe, H. Ulrich
A2 - Luckin, Rose
A2 - Mavrikis, Manolis
A2 - Porayska-Pomsta, Kaska
A2 - McLaren, Bruce
A2 - du Boulay, Benedict
PB - Springer, Springer Nature
CY - Cham
T2 - 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2018
Y2 - 27 June 2018 through 30 June 2018
ER -