The present study was conducted to investigate if and how conversational agent can facilitate explanation activity that is conducive to learning. This was investigated through two experiments where pairs of participants, who were enrolled in a psychology course, engaged in a task of explaining to their partners the meanings of concepts of technical terms taught in the course. During the task, t...

The present study investigates how a conversational agent can facilitate explanation activity. An experiment was conducted where pairs of participants, who were enrolled in a psychology course, engaged in a task of explaining to their partners the meanings of concepts of technical terms taught in the course. During the task, they interacted with a conversational agent, which was programmed to p...

In recent years there has been an increasing interest concerning the integration of speech and other communication media in conversational systems, originating the so-called multimodal conversational systems. When several interaction modalities are available, users can receive more feedback from a conversational system and it can also receive more information from users, leading to a reduction ...

McGowan argues that everyday verbal bigotry makes a key contribution to the harms of discriminatory inequality, via mechanism she calls sneaky norm enactment. Part her account involves showing characteristic conversational interaction facilitates enactment is in fact generic one, which obtains wide range activities, namely, property having conventions appropriateness. I argue will be better-abl...