Adding Human-Provided Emotional Scaffolding to an Automated Reading Tutor That Listens Increases Student Persistence
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1 With Project LISTEN 1996-2001; now Visiting Scientist, MIT M edia Lab; and Research Scientist, Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science, Mail Stop T27-A, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA 94035-1000 USA [email protected] 2 MIT Media Lab, Building E15, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge MA 02139 USA http://affect.media.mit.edu/AC_research/lc/ 3 Project LISTEN, RI-NSH 4213, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh PA 15213 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~listen
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