Tough Love: The Influence of an Agent's Negative Affect on Students' Learning

  • Authors:

  • Jeremiah Sullins;Scotty D. Craig;Arthur C. Graesser

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, USA;Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, USA;Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education: Building Learning Systems that Care: From Knowledge Representation to Affective Modelling
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper we explored the relationship between learning gains and affective displays of an animated pedagogical agent. Students read information on the topic of computer literacy while receiving either positive or negative affective responses from an on-screen animated agent. Analyses revealed that only students with low prior knowledge were influenced by the emotion displayed by the animated agent. We discuss the generalizability of our findings to other domains and the implications of these results on intelligent tutoring systems that are emotionally intelligent.