The main aim of this study is to investigate if verbal, vocal, and facial information can be used identify low-engaged second language learners in robot-led conversation practice. experiments were performed on voice recordings video data from 50 conversations, which a robotic head talks with pairs adult using four different interaction strategies varying robot-learner focus initiative. It was f...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become an important component of military aviation operations and skilled UAV operators are a valuable part of this component. Currently there is a need for improved methods of facilitating the development of mission level skills among operators, including target identification and maintenance of navigational awareness. Toward this aim, we examined the exten...

One important aspect of motivation is engagement. In order to learn, students need to be engaged in the learning activities. However, that does not always happen due to various factors. This paper investigates the possibility to detect the level of engagement of a learner using an e-Learning system. More specifically, we are looking for actions that could predict it. Using log files analysis we...

Wayne State University, Penn State University, and Oregon State University are developing a distributed cyberlearning environment to facilitate the consideration of different human controlled/initiated impacts on the natural environment through team-based and personalized design activities. This interactive learning environment, Constructionism in Learning: Sustainable Life Cycle Engineering (C...

We describe the building and testing of a museum audio tour with content recorded as spontaneous interactive dialogue between two curators as they walked around an art gallery. The aim was to produce a guide which would increase the amount of topically relevant talk shared by people visiting a museum in groups of two or more. Conversation analysis is used to show how a pair of visitors engaged ...

This research demonstrates the utility of automatically monitoring a student’s posture to track the affective states of boredom (low engagement) and flow (high engagement), which have been shown to influence learning. After a tutoring session with AutoTutor, the affective states of the student were rated by the learner, a peer, and two trained judges. Our results indicated that the affective st...

Simulation is the technique of imitating a process or situation for education, training, modelling of an uncommon or risky scenario, or testing systems when new elements are introduced (such as a new protocol). Simulation training is not new to medicine. Anatomical models were created in ancient times, and in the 1960s the Norwegian toy manufacturer Laerdal pioneered simulation to practise card...

Over half of a century, second language (L2) psychological factors have been heatedly investigated by L2 practitioners and computer assisted learning (CALL) researchers who devote their continuous efforts to gain some comprehensive understandings what learner-external internal may contribute successful outcomes (Li, Meng, Tian, Zhang, & Xiao, 2021). For the factors, contextual settings (out...

Much has been written in the educational psychology literature about effective feedback and how to deliver it. However, it is equally important to understand how learners actively receive, engage with, and implement feedback. This article reports a systematic review of the research evidence pertaining to this issue. Through an analysis of 195 outputs published between 1985 and early 2014, we id...

Abstract Every decision made in the classroom has potential to either help or hurt a student’s development as learner. When students’ mental and emotional well-being are taken into account, effective instruction assessment possible, despite importance of learners’ engagement (LEA), test-taking skills (TTS), self-assessment (SA), learner resilience (LR), autonomy (LA). As result, this study atte...