Pedagogical Agents
Pedagogical agents as social models to influence learner attitudes, Educational Technology (2007)
Based on social-cognitive theory, we describe the role of pedagogical agents as “social models.” In...
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Desirable Characteristics of Learning Companions, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (2007)
This study investigated the desirable characteristics of anthropomorphized learning-companion agents for college students. First, interviews...
Pedagogical Agents as Learning Companions: The Impact of Agent Emotion and Gender (with A. L. Baylor and E. Shen), Journal of Computer-Assisted Learning (2007)
Abstract The potential of emotional interaction between human and computer has recently interested researchers in...
Pedagogical Agents as Social Models to Influence Learner Attitudes (with A. Baylor), Educational Technology (2007)
Based on social-cognitive theory, we describe the role of pedagogical agents as “social models.” In...
A Social-Cognitive Framework for Designing Pedagogical Agents as Learning Companions (with Amy L. Baylor), Educational Technology Research and Development (2006)
Teaching and learning are highly social activities. Seminal psychologists such as Vygotsky, Piaget, and Bandura...
Content-Based English Learning through Pedagogical
Agents (with P. Punahm and Y. Ko), English Teaching (2006)
Pedagogical Agents as Learning Companions: The Role of Agent Competency and Type of Interaction (with Amy L. Baylor and PALS Group), Educational Technology Research and Development (2006)
This study was designed to examine the effects of the competency (low vs. high) and...
Pedagogical Agents as Learning Companions: Building Social Relations with Learners, Artificial Intelligence in Education: Supporting Learning through Intelligent and Socially Informed Technology (2005)
This study examined the potential of pedagogical agents as learning companions (PALs) to build social...
Simulating Instructional Roles through Pedagogical Agents (with Amy L. Baylor), International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (2005)
This paper describes the design and empirical validation of three distinct pedagogical agent roles (Expert,...