Title :
Auto Generating APA Persona: A Proposal
Author :
Fakinlede, Ireti ; Kumar, Vipin ; Dunwei Wen ; Graf, Sebastian
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. & Inf. Syst., Athabasca Univ., Athabasca, AB, Canada
Abstract :
Contemporary research lacks a well-defined and robust psychometric model for defining and operationalizing the persona and functional roles of anthropomorphic pedagogical agents. This paper addresses this shortcoming by outlining the design of a framework for generating the persona of an agent based on the theory of social distance. Here we characterize the APA´s persona as a cumulative result of the agent´s pragmatic use of language to create social proximity or distance in other to fulfill its functional role.
Keywords :
education; multi-agent systems; social sciences; APA persona generation model; agent language use; agent persona; anthropomorphic pedagogical agent; pedagogical agent design; psychometric model; social distance; social distance theory; social proximity; Computational modeling; Conferences; Educational institutions; Face; Pragmatics; Proposals; Robustness; anthropomorphic pedagogical agents; agent;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2013.181
