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@MISC{Nijholt_doi:10.1080/08839510590910183,
author = {Dirk Heylen Anton Nijholt},
title = {DOI: 10.1080/08839510590910183 AFFECT IN TUTORING DIALOGUES},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
& This paper is about INES, an intelligent, multimodal tutoring environment, and how we build a tutor agent in the environment that tries to be sensitive to the mental state of the student that interacts with it. The environment was primarily designed to help students practice nursing tasks. For example, one of the implemented tasks is to give a virtual patient a subcutaneous injection. The students can interact multimodally using speech and a haptic device under the guidance of the virtual embodied tutor. INES takes into account elements of the student’s character and an appraisal of the student’s actions to estimate the mental state of the student. This information is used to plan and execute the actions and responses of the tutor agent. Successful social interaction requires that every interactant has a good sense of what the other believes and feels. The way we interact and the way we feel is heavily influenced by what we believe about the beliefs, intentions, and emotions of our partners in interaction and how we want to influence these. This concerns both attitudes, in general, about the topic of conversation, and attitudes towards the interactant in particular. This determines how we present ourselves; what we reveal, hide, and fake.
Keyphrases
affect tutoring dialogue mental state tutor agent successful social interaction multimodal tutoring environment student practice nursing task account element subcutaneous injection student character haptic device implemented task virtual patient student action good sense virtual embodied tutor
