keynote lecture 2
Conversational Agent technology has proven effective for individual learning with technology, but offers the potential of even greater benefits in collaborative contexts. Nevertheless, results from a series of classroom studies reveal new challenges for engaging learners with such agents in these contexts. This talk will focus specifically on the results from our recent studies that offer insights into effectively eliciting the attention of collaborative learners through social strategies. A sophomore thermodynamics course in which learners work in pairs on a power plan design task for the purpose of exploring how theoretical principles impact design decisions provides the context for one such series of studies. Another series of our studies has been run in a freshman engineering course in which student groups explore the stages of engineering design with a task related to designing and building a better wrench. This talk will cover results in terms of educational impact as well as impact on student conversational behavior and how results from these studies motivate current work on frameworks and technologies for analysis of conversational behavior in text based interactions as well as speech.
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