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Pedagogical Agents Trying on a Caring Mentor Role
Konstantin Zakharov, Antonija Mitrovic, Lucy Johnston
59 - 66
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Volume 158: Artificial Intelligence in Education
Abstract

We describe the design and evaluation of an affective pedagogical agent persona for Intelligent Tutoring Systems. The goal of our research was to develop an agent embodying a persona of a caring mentor interested in the learner's progress. The agent's behaviour is guided by a set of rules that are triggered by the states of the session history. Four agents were integrated with EER-Tutor for a formative evaluation study. The mentor persona secured strong rapport with the users; the audible narration was seen as a strong feature of the agents.

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