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A Design Proposition for Interactive Virtual Tutors in an Informed Environment

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2016)

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This paper introduces a new research work that aims to improve embodied conversational agents with tutor behavior by endowing them with the capability to generate feedback in pedagogical interactions with learners. The virtual agent feedback and the interpretation of the user’s feedback are based on the knowledge of the environment (informed virtual environment), the interaction and the pedagogical strategies structured around classical intelligent tutoring system models. We present our first steps to implement our proposed architecture based on a model of informed virtual environment. We also describe the ideas that will guide the design of the Tutor Behavior. The planned evaluation method and a first application are also presented.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported by a grant from the Région Bretagne and by the ANR, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (INGREDIBLE project).

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  1. Laboratoire en Sciences et Techniques de l’Information, de la Communication et de la Connaissance (Lab-STICC), Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Brest (ENIB), Centre Européen de Réalité Virtuelle (CERV), Université Bretagne Loire (UBL), 25 Rue Claude Chappe, Plouzané, France

    Joanna Taoum, Bilal Nakhal, Elisabetta Bevacqua & Ronan Querrec

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  1. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    David Traum

  2. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    William Swartout

  3. US Army Research Laboratory, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Peter Khooshabeh

  4. Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Stefan Kopp

  5. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Stefan Scherer

  6. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Anton Leuski

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Taoum, J., Nakhal, B., Bevacqua, E., Querrec, R. (2016). A Design Proposition for Interactive Virtual Tutors in an Informed Environment. In: Traum, D., Swartout, W., Khooshabeh, P., Kopp, S., Scherer, S., Leuski, A. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10011. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47665-0_30

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