We investigated college students' perceptions of a diverse sample of animated conversational agents. We also examined the pedagogical efficacy of those agents. We found that people perceive differences among the agents on several dimensions, such as likeability, and that the agents differ in pedagogical efficacy. However, none of the characteristics that we measured accounted for differences in pedagogical efficacy across the agents. We discuss implications for the field of agent studies with pmiicular emphasis on the creation of pedagogically effective conversational agents and suggest directions for future research.
History
Event
Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Conference ITS (6th : 2002 : Biarritz, France and San Sebastián, Spain)
Series
Lecture notes in computer science ; 2363.
Pagination
963 - 971
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Location
Spain
Place of publication
Berlin, Germany
Start date
2002-06-02
End date
2002-06-07
ISBN-10
3540437509
Language
eng
Publication classification
E1.1 Full written paper - refereed
Copyright notice
2002, Springer-Verlag
Editor/Contributor(s)
G Goos, J Hartmanis, L Leeuwen
Title of proceedings
ITS 2002 : Proceedings of the 6th International Conference for Intelligent Tutoring Systems : Biarritz, France and San Sebastian, Spain, June 2-7, 2002