TITLE:
A Pedagogical Agent as an Interface of an Intelligent Tutoring System to Assist Collaborative Learning
AUTHORS:
Ana Lilia Laureano-Cruces, Enrique Acuña-Garduño, Lourdes Sánchez-Guerrero, Javier Ramírez-Rodríguez, Martha Mora-Torres, Blanca R. Silva-López
KEYWORDS:
Intelligent Tutoring System, Pedagogical Interface Agent, Collaborative Interaction, Instructional Model
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.5 No.8,
May
15,
2014
ABSTRACT: This article
discusses the aspects that are recommendable when designing an interface that includes
a collaborative pedagogical agent within a context in which the collaborative
learning process is reinforced by the task distribution process that goes with
it. The concept of the intelligent tutoring system, conceived as a pedagogical
interface agent (interface with human features that permits interaction between
system and user), forms the basis of this study. The pedagogical agent is
constituted by an intelligent tutoring system that makes a diagnosis adapted to
needs of students, so as to improve the learning process. This is achieved by
dynamic interaction on a system that has a collaborative and distributed
interaction facility, in which the agent is conceived as an educational tool.