Individualised Learning with Pedagogical Agents

The project studied the potential of animated agents for eLearning. In its first phase, a survey of current research and development in this area was undertaken, resulting in a pedagogically based categorization of animated pedagogical agents. The project then concentrated on those agents that carry most potential for pedagogical innovation, i.e. agents in non-pedagogical roles. These roles include agents as learning companions, teachable agents, and agents as actors in pedagogical role-plays. A demonstrator was built in the domain of job interview training for long-term unemployed people. The interactive role-play was implemented on the basis of the "Socialite" application and with the tools built in the framework of the European NECA project, which is coordinated by OFAI.

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