The use of animated pedagogical agents with emotional capabilities in an interactive learning environment has been found to have a positive impact on learners. Aristotle contended that three elements; emotion, logic, and character are crucial for successful persuasion, i.e. in winning others over to one’s way of thinking. We have designed a pedagogical agent that acts in an interactive learning...

A previous study showed that pedagogical agents that offer feedback with appropriate politeness strategies can help students learn better [21]. This work studied the Politeness Effect in a foreign language intelligent tutoring system, and provided further evidence that tutorial feedback with socially intelligent strategies can influence motivation and learning outcomes.

This paper discusses Health Promotion and Critical Education, and seeks to show the theoretical and conceptual interfaces between them. It indicates the transformation and supersession of different health education models and their relationships with the health-disease process and health promotion. Based on these distinct health education models, it points out the implications that the directio...

The paper provides a summary of the initial stage of psychoanalysis development established by the Viennese physician Sigmund Freud. The author has primarily focused on Freud’s structural theory of psychological organization: a tripartite organization of the human psyche id, ego and superego and the theory of psychosexual development. Within the scope of this theory, an attempt was made to give...

This paper considers a particular case of virtual organization composed of the following entities: institutions, online laboratories wishing to collaborate to share hardware and software resources. In the literature, cloud computing represents an implementation of the virtual organizations as grid computing. However, the benefits of the cloud are not used to the full in virtual organizations. T...