Teaching with the help of talking heads

Author

Graesser, Arthur C. ; Hu, Xiangen ; Person, Natalie

Author_Institution

Dept. of Psychol., Memphis State Univ., TN, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

460

Lastpage

461

Abstract

Talking heads were integrated with two learning systems. In AutoTutor, students learn about computer literacy by holding a conversation with a student. AutoTutor is an animated pedagogical agent that asks deep reasoning questions and engages in a mixed initiative dialog as answers emerge. Students type in information via keyboard whereas AutoTutor delivers discourse sensitive contributions with facial expressions, synthesized speech, and gestures. In the Human Use Regulator Affairs (HURA) Advisor, high ranking officers in the military learn about the ethical use of human subjects on a Web site with a conversational navigational agent

Keywords

computer animation; computer literacy; inference mechanisms; information resources; intelligent tutoring systems; natural language interfaces; software agents; speech synthesis; teaching; AutoTutor; HURA; Human Use Regulator Affairs Advisor; Web site; animated pedagogical agent; computer literacy; conversational navigational agent; deep reasoning questions; discourse sensitive contributions; ethical use; facial expressions; gestures; high ranking officers; human subjects; learning systems; mixed initiative dialog; student conversation; synthesized speech; talking heads; Education; Educational institutions; Facial animation; Facial features; Humans; Keyboards; Navigation; Psychology; Read only memory; Speech synthesis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies, 2001. Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Madison, WI

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1013-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2001.943979

Filename

943979