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2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops
Empathic Multiple Tutoring Agents for Multiple Learner Interface
Hong Kong, China
December 18-December 22
ISBN: 0-7695-2749-3
Hua Wang, University of Toronto/Tokyo
Jie Yang, University of Tokyo, Japan
Mark Chignell, Universeity of Toronto, Canada
Mitsuru Ishizuka, University of Tokyo, Japan
This paper describes a multiple user e-learning interface with multiple tutoring character agents. The character agents use eye movement information to facilitate empathy-relevant reasoning and behavior. Eye Information is used to monitor user?s attention and interests, to personalize the agent behaviors, and for exchanging information of different learners. The system reacts to multiple users? eye information in real-time and the empathic character agents owned by each learner exchange learner?s information to help to form the online learning community. Based on these measures, the interface infers the focus of attention of the learner and responds accordingly with affective and instructional behaviors. The paper will also report on some preliminary usability test results concerning how users respond to the empathic functions and interact with other learners using the character agents.
Index Terms:
Multiple user interface, e-learning, character agent, tutoring, educational interface
Citation:
Hua Wang, Jie Yang, Mark Chignell, Mitsuru Ishizuka, "Empathic Multiple Tutoring Agents for Multiple Learner Interface," wi-iatw, pp.339-342, 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, 2006
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