Psychological Research on Embodied Conversational Agents: The Case of Pedagogical Agents

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole C. Krämer
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Research ◽  
Pedagogical Agents ◽  
Embodied Conversational Agents ◽  
Conversational Agents

scholarly journals Design and Evaluation of Embodied Conversational Agents for Educational and Advisory Software

2011 ◽  
pp. 668-686
Author(s):  
Elisabeth André
Keyword(s):  
Pedagogical Agents ◽  
Embodied Conversational Agents ◽  
Mediated Learning ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Conversational Agents ◽  
Learner Motivation ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Educational Role ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Simulation And Evaluation

Embodied conversational agents may take on a diversity of roles in learning and advisory scenarios including virtual teachers, advisors, learning companions and autonomous actors in educational role play. They promote learner motivation, engagement, and self-confidence, and may help prevent and overcome negative affective states of learners, such as frustration, and fear of failure. The chapter will provide guidelines and approved methods for the development of animated pedagogical agents including the extraction of multimodal tutorial strategies from human-human teaching dialogues as well as the simulation and evaluation of such strategies in computer-mediated learning environments.

scholarly journals Design and Evaluation of Embodied Conversational Agents for Educational and Advisory Software

2008 ◽  
pp. 343-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth André
Keyword(s):  
Pedagogical Agents ◽  
Embodied Conversational Agents ◽  
Mediated Learning ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Conversational Agents ◽  
Learner Motivation ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Educational Role ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Simulation And Evaluation

Embodied conversational agents may take on a diversity of roles in learning and advisory scenarios including virtual teachers, advisors, learning companions and autonomous actors in educational role play. They promote learner motivation, engagement, and self-confidence, and may help prevent and overcome negative affective states of learners, such as frustration, and fear of failure. The chapter will provide guidelines and approved methods for the development of animated pedagogical agents including the extraction of multimodal tutorial strategies from human-human teaching dialogues as well as the simulation and evaluation of such strategies in computer-mediated learning environments.

Intersubjectivity in human–agent interaction

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justine Cassell ◽  
Andrea Tartaro
Keyword(s):  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Embodied Conversational Agents ◽  
Conversational Agents ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Human Agent ◽  
Unconscious Communication ◽  
Agent Interaction ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
And Robotics

What is the hallmark of success in human–agent interaction? In animation and robotics, many have concentrated on the looks of the agent — whether the appearance is realistic or lifelike. We present an alternative benchmark that lies in the dyad and not the agent alone: Does the agent’s behavior evoke intersubjectivity from the user? That is, in both conscious and unconscious communication, do users react to behaviorally realistic agents in the same way they react to other humans? Do users appear to attribute similar thoughts and actions? We discuss why we distinguish between appearance and behavior, why we use the benchmark of intersubjectivity, our methodology for applying this benchmark to embodied conversational agents (ECAs), and why we believe this benchmark should be applied to human–robot interaction.

Physically embodied conversational agents as health and fitness companions

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markku Turunen ◽  
Jaakko Hakulinen ◽  
Cameron Smith ◽  
Daniel Charlton ◽  
Li Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Conversational Agents ◽  
Conversational Agents ◽  
Health And Fitness

scholarly journals Social robots – emotional agents: Some remarks on naturalizing man-machine interaction

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 37-45
Author(s):  
Barbara Becker
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Computer Interface ◽  
Embodied Conversational Agents ◽  
Human Computer Interface ◽  
Conversational Agents ◽  
The One ◽  
Machine Communication ◽  
Emotional Agents ◽  
Machine Interaction ◽  
Positive Effect

The construction of embodied conversational agents – robots as well as avatars – seem to be a new challenge in the field of both cognitive AI and human-computer-interface development. On the one hand, one aims at gaining new insights in the development of cognition and communication by constructing intelligent, physical instantiated artefacts. On the other hand people are driven by the idea, that humanlike mechanical dialog-partners will have a positive effect on human-machine-communication. In this contribution I put for discussion whether the visions of scientist in this field are plausible and which problems might arise by the realization of such projects.

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