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

Building Intelligent Interactive Tutors discusses educational systems that assess a student's
knowledge and are adaptive to a student's learning needs. The impact of computers has not …

Recent years have witnessed the birth of a new paradigm for learning environments:
animated pedagogical agents. These lifelike autonomous characters cohabit learning …

Interactive virtual worlds provide a powerful medium for experiential learning. Intelligent
virtual agents can cohabit virtual worlds with people and facilitate such learning as guides …

Animated pedagogical agents are lifelike animated characters that facilitate the learning
process. This paper describes Adele, a pedagogical agent that is designed to work with Web …

A well-established effect of animated agents in educational and other contexts is their
potential to motivate and engage.“Increased motivation in users” is also one of the more …

This paper describes the evaluation of the persona effect of a speech‐driven
anthropomorphic agent that has been embodied in the interface of an intelligent tutoring …

La simulación es una técnica empleada de manera formal en la educación médica desde
hace más de 40 años. Su utilización ha permitido un mejor adiestramiento de estudiantes …

Cognitive Assistants support humans and enhance their capabilities in solving a wide
variety of complex tasks. In this paper, we introduce a Cognitive Assistant named LIZA that is …

People of low literacy could benefit from automated support when learning about societal
participation. We design an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA)'coach'that can provide …