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Recently, there has been considerable interest in understanding the relationship between student affect and cognition. This research is facilitated by the advent of automated sensor-free detectors that have been designed to “infer” affect from the logs of student interactions within a learning environment. Such detectors allow for fine-grained analysis of the impact of different affective states on a range of learning outcome measures. However, these detectors have to date only been developed for a subset of online learning environments, including problem-solving tutors, dialogue tutors, and narrative-based virtual environments. In this paper, we extend sensor-free affect detection to a science microworld environment, affording the possibility of more deeply studying and responding to student affect in this type of learning environment.
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Paquette, L. et al. (2014). Sensor-Free Affect Detection for a Simulation-Based Science Inquiry Learning Environment. In: Trausan-Matu, S., Boyer, K.E., Crosby, M., Panourgia, K. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8474. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07221-0_1
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