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AFFLOG: A Logic Based Affective Tutoring System

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In this work, the Affective Logic (AFFLOG) Tutor is presented. An Affective Tutoring System that uses knowledge representation and reasoning tools such as Answer Set Programming and the Event Calculus (EC) in order to represent the main components of the tutor. AI Planning is used to select individual parts of a given course material (tutorials) in order to build a specific course tailored to the needs of each user according to the user’s learning preferences. This course can dynamically change during the teaching session responding to the user’s mental and emotional states, providing affective support by offering praise, consolation or encouragement depending on the current emotion of the user. The design and a functioning implementation of the system is presented. As a proof of concept, a course on how to play the Settlers of Catan(c) board game was designed and implemented.

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

    Achilles Dougalis & Dimitris Plexousakis

  2. Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Heraklion, Greece

    Achilles Dougalis & Dimitris Plexousakis

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  2. University of West Attica, Egaleo, Greece

    Christos Troussas

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Dougalis, A., Plexousakis, D. (2020). AFFLOG: A Logic Based Affective Tutoring System. In: Kumar, V., Troussas, C. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12149. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49663-0_31

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