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Towards an Effective Affective Tutoring Agent in Specialized Education

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Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2016)

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This research contributes to the advancement of intelligent tutoring systems by proposing an affective intelligent tutoring system in the field of specialized education. The Integrated Specialized Learning Application (ISLA) helps autistic children manage their emotions by analyzing the learning trace and considering the learner’s current performance to respond accordingly to it during a mathematical learning situation. We have conducted an experiment to validate the support provided by Jessie based on our accompaniment model. The results showed significant improvement in learning by the test group.

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  1. Université de Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Montréal, Canada

    Aydée Liza Mondragon, Roger Nkambou & Pierre Poirier

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  1. Aydée Liza Mondragon
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  1. Roma Tre University , Rome, Italy

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  2. Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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  3. Neoanalysis Ltd , Athens, Greece

    Kitty Panourgia

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Mondragon, A.L., Nkambou, R., Poirier, P. (2016). Towards an Effective Affective Tutoring Agent in Specialized Education. In: Micarelli, A., Stamper, J., Panourgia, K. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9684. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39583-8_48

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