Multimedia pedagogical agents are on-screen characters that allow users to navigate or
learn in multimedia environments. Several agents' characteristics may moderate their …

Research on animated pedagogical agents (agents) is viewed as a very positive attempt to
introduce more pedagogical support and motivational elements into multi-media instruction …

We examined how the presence and nonverbal communication of an animated pedagogical
agent affects students' perceptions and learning. College students learned about astronomy …

A meta-analysis consisting of 20 experiments (N= 3841) on the influence of pedagogical
agent (PA) gesturing in multimedia environments revealed that gestures have a small-to …

This paper reports the results of an experimental study on multimedia learning
environments, which investigated the impact that increasing the social behaviors of a …

Two experiments explored the integration of animated agents into multimedia environments
in the context of RE Mayer's (2001) cognitive theory of multimedia learning. Experiment 1 …

College students (in Experiment 1) and 7th-grade students (in Experiment 2) learned how to
design the roots, stem, and leaves of plants to survive in 8 different environments through a …

Animated pedagogical agents have become popular in multimedia learning with combined
delivery of verbal and non-verbal forms of information. In order to reduce unnecessary …

Pedagogical agents, characters that guide through multimedia learning environments,
recently gained increasing interest. A review was published by Clarebout, Elen, Johnson …

Research on the use of software programs and tools such as pedagogical agents has
peaked over the last decade. Pedagogical agents are on-screen characters that facilitate …