Study Buddy: An Emotionally Intelligent Tutoring System

Tutoring Process in Emotionally Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Research has shown that emotions can influence learning in situations when students have to analyze, reason, make conclusions, apply acquired knowledge, answer questions, solve tasks, and provide explanations. A number of research groups inspired by the close relationship between emotions and learning have been working to develop emotionally intelligent tutoring systems. Despite the research ca...

Emotionally Intelligent Tutoring Systems (EITS)

It is well-known that emotions have a strong influence on a person’s cognitive abilities, a fact which can be used by a tutor to improve a student’s learning capacities. Conditions are that the tutor knows the current emotional state of the learner as well as the emotional impact of certain actions taken and, finally, how the student’s learning capacities depend on his emotions. In this article...

An Intelligent Tutoring System

As students learn about logic circuit design, they come across understanding concepts of Boolean Algebra. For some students, dealing with complex logical expressions could be a frustrating experience that may obstruct understanding as well as the development of the required design skills. Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) could provide an excellent one-on-one support to improve conceptual and ...

User Study of AffectIM, an Emotionally Intelligent Instant Messaging System

Our research addresses the tasks of recognition, interpretation and visualization of affect communicated through text messaging. In order to facilitate sensitive and expressive interaction in computer-mediated communication, we previously introduced a novel syntactical rule-based approach to affect recognition from text. The evaluation of the developed Affect Analysis Model showed promising res...

An Intelligent Tutoring System for Induction Proofs