Modeling an Affectionate Virtual Teacher for e-Learning underpinning 3-Dimensional Emotion Model

E-learning could become the major form of training and development in organizations as technologies will improve to create a fully interactive and humanized learning environment” [18]. With a notion to acknowledge the above statement, this paper explains an affective role model of a virtual teacher intertwined with emotional states of e-learners to facilitate interactive and successful learning. The paper first presents the relationships between emotion and learning from different literatures and surveys. Then model of an affectionate virtual teacher is explained with the help of a threedimensional emotion model. Laboratory experiments to interrelate learners’ emotional state to the behavioral dynamics of virtual teacher’s are then discussed. The paper concludes with the notion of future research.