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Agent-Mediated Immersion in Virtual World: The Implications for Science Learning

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Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2011)

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In a virtual world environment, mediated immersion can be important in enhancing students’ engagement in learning. This paper describes the study of agent-mediated immersion in a virtual world called Chronicles of Virtual Singapura that seeks to promote students’ science learning. The results of an empirical study provide us some evidences that the agent-mediated immersion could have positive effects on students’ science learning, especially to those with less prior domain knowledge.

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  1. Natioanl Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    Chee-Kit Looi, Longkai Wu & Beaumie Kim

  2. School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    Chunyan Miao

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  1. EECS Department/ISIS, Vanderbilt University, TN 37235, Nashville, USA

    Gautam Biswas

  2. Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Birmingham, U.K.

    Susan Bull

  3. School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, 1 Cleveland Street, 2006, Sydney, Australia

    Judy Kay

  4. College of Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, 8140, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Antonija Mitrovic

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Looi, CK., Wu, L., Kim, B., Miao, C. (2011). Agent-Mediated Immersion in Virtual World: The Implications for Science Learning. In: Biswas, G., Bull, S., Kay, J., Mitrovic, A. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6738. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21869-9_84

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