Multimedia pedagogical agents are on-screen characters that allow users to navigate or learn in multimedia environments. Several agents’ characteristics may moderate their instructional effectiveness, including appearance, gender, nonverbal communication, motion, and voice. Here, we conducted a meta-analysis test hypotheses from diverse theories predicting the effects of these characteristics. ...

In order to train children's ability ask curiosity-driven questions, previous research has explored designing specific exercises relying on providing semantic and linguistic cues help formulate such questions. But despite showing pedagogical efficiency, this method is still limited as it relies generating the said by hand, which can be a very costly process. context, we propose leverage advance...

In this paper we examine the meaning of conversing with pedagogical agents. Previous research has focused on examining cause and effect relationships, failing to take into account the meaning of the experiences individuals have when holding a dialogue with conversational agents for educational purposes. To understand these experiences, we have conducted a phenomenological examination of what it...

teachers can influence the complex process of learning in education, in general, and in second/foreign language (l2) learning in particular. in this light, understanding the factors influencing teachers’ pedagogical success can help l2 teachers achieve more effective teaching. this study then investigated the role of spiritual intelligence (si) in l2 teachers’ pedagogical success. in so doing, ...

The goal of this study is to test the hypothesis that animated pedagogical agents can promote constructivist learning in a discovery-based learning environment. We do this by first, comparing the learning outcomes of students who learn in the context of social interaction with a computer-mediated character with the learning outcomes of students who learn in a computer text context. Second, we f...

During the last decade, learning scientists have developed technologies with animated pedagogical agents that interact with the student in natural language and other communication channels, such as facial expressions and gestures. These pedagogical agents model good learning strategies and coach the students in actively applying their knowledge. This chapter focuses on agent-based learning envi...

We have developed and integrated software agents with two educational groupware systems (TeamWave Workplace and FLE), using evolutionary prototyping and empirical-based design as development techniques. The resulting prototypes of pedagogical agents (CoPAS, SA-Agent and RuleEditor) provide learners and teachers with increasingly domain-specific support for distributed collaborative learning act...