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Typed versus Spoken Conversations in a Multi-party Epistemic Game

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Multi-party chat is a standard feature of popular online games and is increasingly available in collaborative learning environments. This paper addresses the differences between spoken and typed conversations as high school students interacted with the epistemic game Urban Science. Coh-Metrix analyses showed that speech was associated with narrativity and cohesion whereas typed input was associated with syntactic simplicity and word concreteness. These findings suggest that the modality in group communication should be considered.

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  1. Psychology, Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis, 365 Innovation Drive, Memphis, TN, 38152, USA

    Brent Morgan, Candice Burkett & Arthur Graesser

  2. Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Educational Sciences Building, Room 1078D, 1025 West Johnson Street, Madison, WI, 53711, USA

    Elizabeth Bagley

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  1. EECS Department/ISIS, Vanderbilt University, TN 37235, Nashville, USA

    Gautam Biswas

  2. Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Birmingham, U.K.

    Susan Bull

  3. School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, 1 Cleveland Street, 2006, Sydney, Australia

    Judy Kay

  4. College of Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, 8140, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Antonija Mitrovic

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Morgan, B., Burkett, C., Bagley, E., Graesser, A. (2011). Typed versus Spoken Conversations in a Multi-party Epistemic Game. In: Biswas, G., Bull, S., Kay, J., Mitrovic, A. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6738. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21869-9_86

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