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A common problem in Virtual Learning Environments is the difficult task to monitor students activities and the lack of feedback from the tutor. Use of new technologies to perform the tracking of students in virtual environments can bring great results, facilitating the work students and teachers This paper presents TUCUMÃ, an 3D Intelligent Virtual Agent integrated into an Environment Virtual Learning Moodle. It works as a distance learning course tutor, monitoring students activities, removing doubts of the students through dialog. The avatar is composed of MultiAgent System responsible for producing gestures and monitoring students activities.
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Alencar, M., Netto, J.F. (2014). TUtor Collaborator Using Multi-Agent System. In: Yuizono, T., Zurita, G., Baloian, N., Inoue, T., Ogata, H. (eds) Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing. CollabTech 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 460. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44651-5_14
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