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Charisma is a powerful device of communication. Research on charisma on a specific type of leader in a specific type of organization – teachers in the classroom - has indicated the positive influence of a teacher’s charismatic behaviors, often referred to as immediacy behaviors, on student learning. How do we realize such behaviors in a virtual tutor? How do such behaviors impact student learning? In this paper, we discuss the design of a charismatic virtual human tutor. We developed verbal and nonverbal (with the focus on voice) charismatic strategies and realized such strategies through scripted tutorial dialogues and pre-recorded voices. A study with the virtual human tutor has shown an intriguing impact of charismatic behaviors on student learning.
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This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant #1816966. Any opinions expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.
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Wang, N., Jajodia, A., Karpurapu, A., Merchant, C. (2021). Charisma and Learning: Designing Charismatic Behaviors for Virtual Human Tutors. In: Roll, I., McNamara, D., Sosnovsky, S., Luckin, R., Dimitrova, V. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12749. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78270-2_66
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