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Empathetic Tutoring Agents |
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Empathetic Tutoring Agents |
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Description |
<p>This PhD project examines the prospects of using empathy in an Embodied Tutoring
System (ETS) that guides students through an online quiz (by providing feedback on
student answers and responding to self-reported student mood). The main hypothesis
is that interaction with an empathic ETS results in greater learning gains than a
neutral ETS, primarily because the student motivation is enhanced is through empathic
feedback.<br /><br />In a preparatory study we investigated different strategies for
expressing emotion by the ETS. We established that a multimodal strategy (controlling
speech, gestures and facial expressions) achieves the best results regarding how accurately
human participants can recognise the emotions. This approach was used in our empathic
ETS.<br /><br />The preparatory study was followed by two studies in which we compared
a neutral with an empathic ETS. The ETS in the second of these studies was developed
using results from the first study. There was no statistically significant difference
in learning gains between the two ETS. We did, however, find that type of ETS and
student score on an empathy tendency test interacted. We also analysed the subjective
response of learners to the two systems.<br /><br />Based on our studies in a formal
class room setting, we arrived at a number of recommendations for deploying this type
of technology in schools.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Publications</strong></p><p>Click<a
href="http://oro.open.ac.uk/cgi/search/simple?screen=Public%3A%3AEPrintSearch&meta_merge=ALL&meta=&person_merge=ALL&person=Moyo%2C+Sharon&date=&satisfyall=ALL&order=-date%2Fcreators_name%2Ftitle&_action_search=Search">here
for project publications</a>.</p> |
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