Using Chatbots to Teach Socially Intelligent Computing Principles in Introductory Computer Science Courses

Author

Shaw, Alan

Author_Institution

CS Dept., Kennesaw State Univ., Kennesaw, GA, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

16-18 April 2012

Firstpage

850

Lastpage

851

Abstract

Teaching "socially intelligent computing" concepts in introductory computer science courses is possible through curricular projects that involve students developing their own collaborative chatbots. Chat bots are programs that interact with users in a conversational context. Introductory CS students can write these types of programs using a framework of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) libraries presented in this poster paper. When the students build chat bots that collaborate with one another, the students are introduced to a branch of machine intelligence called socially intelligent computing.

Keywords

artificial intelligence; computer aided instruction; computer science education; educational courses; groupware; peer-to-peer computing; P2P libraries; collaborative chatbots; curricular project; introductory computer science courses; machine intelligence; peer-to-peer libraries; socially intelligent computing principle; Artificial intelligence; Collaboration; Computer science; Computers; Motion pictures; Peer to peer computing; Servers; CS 1; CS 2; Collaborative Programming; Pedagogy; Socially Intelligent Computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG), 2012 Ninth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0798-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITNG.2012.70

Filename

6209100