Do Learners Argue with Intelligent Virtual Characters Seriously?

Xuehong Tao; Nicola Yelland; Zhiqi Shen

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2014 (Jun 23, 2014) pp. 2302–2311

Argumentation becomes an essential element in science education. It plays an important role in leading to deep learning, fostering conceptual change, promoting knowledge co-construction and supporting problem solving. This research develops a...

Topics: Usability/User Studies, Agents

Learning Outcomes and Experiences while Learning with an Argumentative Agent

Xuehong Tao; Nicola Yelland; Zhiqi Shen

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2014 (Jun 23, 2014) pp. 2312–2322

Intelligent agents are active components in education. However, there is no intelligent agent that is able to conduct argumentation dialogues with learners to facilitate argumentative learning. This research develops an intelligent agent which is...

Topics: Usability/User Studies, Agents

Remembrance Agent: A New Type of Pedagogical Agent in Educational Game

Huiliang Zhang; Zhiqi Shen; Xuehong Tao; Chunyan Miao

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 1470–1479

Many pedagogical agents have been designed and successfully applied in educational games, such as learning companions, tutor agents or other kinds of intelligent agents. Most agents work in a traditional way to teach or guide the players by directly ...

Teachable Agents in Virtual Learning Environments: a Case Study

Han Yu; Chunyan Miao; Xuehong Tao; Zhiqi Shen; Yundong Cai; Boyang Li; Yuan Miao

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 1088–1096

As intelligent agent and virtual world technologies advanced to new heights in the current decade, researchers from diverse fields have started to look into possible ways of applying these emerging technologies to improve e-learning systems....

Learning through Argumentation with Cognitive Virtual Companions

Xuehong Tao; Yin-Leng Theng; Nicola Yelland; Zhiqi Shen; Chunyan Miao

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 3179–3194

Argumentation plays an important role in learning processes. However, due to the difficulties in modeling human cognitive processes with computers, there are few computer-based learning systems that facilitate argumentation dialogues between...