Global Educational Technology Symposium

At the dawn of approaching information society, there is an ever-growing research interest on the field of elearning which drive attention of researchers from diverse area of disciplines, such as computer science, signal processing, psychology, education, etc. This is a reflection of a concrete consensus that Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is going to have a great impact on education in the future [1]. However, even though there are large numbers of studies on HCI, the affective aspects in HCI studies are still neglected [2]. It is argued that the current state of e-learning can be improved via inserting the adaptability and interactivity, which will be obtained by enhanced human-computer interaction, into student model [3,4]. This will facilitate the acceptance and credibility of the new generation of educational environments. In this paper, it is postulated that the possibility of integration of recent development in affective and cognitive computations will have a great impact in e-learning processes on education in the future. Index Terms – E-learning, Intelligent Tutoring System, cognitive computation