Emotional and motivational ITS architecture

Since emotional variations interfere in the production of a student, it is important to make intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) able to cope with this issue. Although the expert overlay approach does consider pedagogic aspects, it does not deal with emotional and motivational questions. We propose an emotional model, by specifying the variables to be captured from the cognitive structure and suggest inferences to diagnose the behaviour and the temperament of the student, taking into account transient and permanent behaviour. It also works out the incorporation of motivational issues in the expert overlay approach, making it able to help the student individually not only regarding pedagogical but also emotional and motivational issues.