Building Pedagogical Conversational Agents, Affectively Correct

Michalis Feidakis, Panagiotis Kasnesis, Eva Giatraki, Christos Giannousis, Charalampos Patrikakis, Panagiotis Monachelis

2019

Abstract

Despite the visionary tenders that emerging technologies bring to education, modern learning environments such as MOOCs or Webinars still suffer from adequate affective awareness and effective feedback mechanisms, often leading to low engagement or abandonment. Artificial Conversational Agents hold the premises to ease the modern learner’s isolation, due to the recent achievements of Machine Learning. Yet, a pedagogical approach that reflects both cognitive and affective skills still remains undelivered. The current paper moves towards this direction, suggesting a framework to build pedagogical driven conversational agents based on Reinforcement Learning combined with Sentiment Analysis, also inspired by the pedagogical learning theory of Core Cognitive Skills.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Feidakis M., Kasnesis P., Giatraki E., Giannousis C., Patrikakis C. and Monachelis P. (2019). Building Pedagogical Conversational Agents, Affectively Correct.In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-367-4, pages 100-107. DOI: 10.5220/0007771001000107

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu19,
author={Michalis Feidakis and Panagiotis Kasnesis and Eva Giatraki and Christos Giannousis and Charalampos Patrikakis and Panagiotis Monachelis},
title={Building Pedagogical Conversational Agents, Affectively Correct},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2019},
pages={100-107},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007771001000107},
isbn={978-989-758-367-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - Building Pedagogical Conversational Agents, Affectively Correct
SN - 978-989-758-367-4
AU - Feidakis M.
AU - Kasnesis P.
AU - Giatraki E.
AU - Giannousis C.
AU - Patrikakis C.
AU - Monachelis P.
PY - 2019
SP - 100
EP - 107
DO - 10.5220/0007771001000107