Skip to main content

A System Architecture for Affective Meta Intelligent Tutoring Systems

  • Conference paper

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNPSE,volume 8474))

Abstract

Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) constitute an alternative to expert human tutors, providing direct customized instruction and feedback to students. ITSs could positively impact education if adopted on a large scale, but doing that requires tools to enable their mass production. This circumstance is the key motivation for this work. We present a component-based approach for a system architecture for ITSs equipped with meta-tutoring and affective capabilities. We elicited the requirements that those systems might address and created a system architecture that models their structure and behavior to drive development efforts. Our experience applying the architecture in the incremental implementation of a four-year project is discussed.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.

Buying options

Chapter
USD   29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD   84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD   109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Learn about institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  1. Crnkovic, I.: Component-Based Software Engineering - New Challenges in Software Development. Software Focus 2(4), 127–133 (2001)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. VanLehn, K.: The Behavior of Tutoring Systems. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education 16(3), 227–265 (2006)

    Google Scholar 

  3. Burleson, W.: Affective Learning Companions: Strategies for Empathetic Agents with Real-Time Multimodal Affective Sensing to Foster Meta-Cognitive Approaches to Learning, Motivation, and Perseverance. MIT PhD thesis (2006)

    Google Scholar 

  4. Bass, L., Clements, P., Kazman, R.: Software Architecture in Practice, 2nd edn. Addison-Wesley, Boston (2003)

    Google Scholar 

  5. Lehman, B., D’Mello, S.K., Person, N.: All Alone with Your Emotions. In: 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Springer (2008)

    Google Scholar 

  6. Gonzalez-Sanchez, J., Chavez-Echeagaray, M.E., Atkinson, R., Burleson, W.: Multimodal Detection of Affective States: A Roadmap Through Diverse Technologies. In: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM (2014)

    Google Scholar 

  7. Firesmith, D.G., Capell, P., Falkentha, D., Hammons, C.B., Latimer IV, D.T., Merendino, T.: The Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures. CRC Press (2008)

    Google Scholar 

  8. VanLehn, K., Burleson, W., Girard, S., Chavez- Echeagaray, M.E., Gonzalez-Sanchez, J., Hidalgo-Pontet, Y., Zhang, L.: The Affective Meta-Tutoring project: Lessons Learned. In: 15th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Springer (2014)

    Google Scholar 

  9. Gonzalez-Sanchez, J., Chavez-Echeagaray, M.E., VanLehn, K., Burleson, W.: From Behavioral Description to A Pattern-Based Model for Intelligent Tutoring Systems. In: 18th International Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs. ACM (2011)

    Google Scholar 

  10. Pressman, R.S.: Software Engineering, 7th edn. McGraw-Hill, Boston (2009)

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland

About this paper

Cite this paper

Gonzalez-Sanchez, J. et al. (2014). A System Architecture for Affective Meta Intelligent Tutoring Systems. 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_67

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07221-0_67

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Cham

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-319-07220-3

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-319-07221-0

  • eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics