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Students' affections in learning have a significant impact on engagement and learning outcomes. When students have negative emotions, they usually do not learn well. But current e-learning systems often lack many features of profound affection, and fail to provide suitable emotional interaction. In this paper, we evaluate some studies of affective interaction e-learning systems. We also proposed our...
Bill Gates mentioned in Scientific America that robot will enter every home in ten year the same as personal computers have entered into almost every home in ten year. This project is to response to this trend, and to think about how robot can enhance learning, for example, robot can be as learning tools, teaching tools, learning companions, teaching partner, or some other models to enhance learning.
In this paper, a learning-companion robot based on a Pleo (a dinosaur-robot) is introduced. The learning-companion robot is equipped with a low-cost Web camera, a computer, and an attention monitoring algorithm so that it can not only monitor a learnerpsilas attention status but also detect whether the learner is too close to a computer screen during an on-line learning activity. The motivation of...
From the review of many literatures, it is considered that there are still prevailing obstacles for second language learners due to insufficient vocabulary. Fortunately, there is a way to increase onepsilas vocabulary by means of extensive reading realizing stories. The research tries to utilize robot as a medium to design a pressure-free and intriguing learning system. It is a learning method imitating...
In recent years, combining the empathic virtual human with the learning system is one of the most popular topics. However, there are few studies on designing pedagogical agents which have different empathic strategies to interact with learners. In this paper, we have described our approach to design an interactive empathic agent with different empathic strategies. We created an empathic interaction...
The ease of interaction and operation of a wiki system allows for mass collaborative authoring. This paper reports how an authentic learning community is constructed through wiki for advanced group collaboration as well as knowledge sharing. In our community, each student member is assigned a role for his or her homework. Depending on their roles, students must perform different tasks and collect...
Inter-trust is one of the important factors in collaborative learning. In the collaborative learning process, if the relationship between group members lacks trust to each other, the collaboration performance will be limit. If we can obtain the inter-trust of group members by the computer assist, teachers can take the information about the cooperation in team any time. Then teachers would have the...
This paper introduces software which enables teachers create robot as a partner easily and find out how to help a teacher difficulties when using storytelling lessons. First of all, we must understand the relations between storytelling and language learning, and the benefit of a robot being the assistance of a teacher during the lesson. In the next step, let teachers use the "programming a robot...
Through a field study computer science practices, we observed that students not only rely on the computer but also the programming textbook. To get overall comprehension, students organize their effort in understanding the abstract concept in the textbook and tracing the program execution constantly. The observations motivated us design an interactive textbook that integrates paper books with interactive...
We are developing a storytelling robot which learns by children's teaching. The robot is used on learning of the second language. It can reduce the negative emotion due to the anxiety of speaking foreign language, which thus motivates learning and enhances the speaking and listening abilities. Presently, our system is still at the initial stage of research. Therefore, we only interviewed and experimented...
In this study, we proposed a new methodology to combine the paper slides, computer screen and a digital pen in order to improve teachers teaching and students learning in the traditional classroom. In students' learning, we design the new course slides which have kept the habit students had a class in the past, and integrate the advantage of real-time online support. In instructors' teaching, instructors...
Feeling cared for has important influence on physiology, cognition and emotional states. It plays a very crucial role in education and medical professions to help people deal with emotional problems. In this paper, we present an interactive caring agent which uses facial expressions, hand gestures, body movements, and social dialogue to show empathy and active listening for interacting with students...
The most recent advances in ubiquitous computing technologies have brought augmentation of objects to context-aware and social supports. Although most students prefer intensive reading on tangible books, few studies have been done on augmenting reading practice in tangible books with the context-aware supports. This article introduces a methodology to integrate mobile phones, tangible books and a...
Relational robot is an intelligent conversational agent designed to be a learning secretary for student to notify student of using our learning Web site on time. In this paper we discuss some modules of relational robot to let it play a learning secretary role; it contains interaction module (verbal communication unit, nonverbal communication unit and process unit), internet interface, and communication...
Advancement in robotic research enables robot can assist human in many way. However, few researches have been done on applying on education. This paper reports field trials of using robot in an English learning classroom. In our experiment, the robot plays as a partner of a teacher. Five models of collaboration between teachers and robot are proposed. Teachers design the course flow in advance based...
To explore how group member behaviour influences group performance, most studies stress on the influences of group leadership. However, the existence of member-roles is also an effective indicator of group performance, meanwhile; teachers have difficult to extract the member-roles which students play on a Web-based learning system. This research (1) assist teachers to extract group social communication...
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