Designing Virtual Animal Companions by Emotional Responsibility Strategy

  • Authors:

  • Zhi-Hong Chen;Calvin C. Y. Liao;Tzu-Chao Chien;Tak-Wai Chan

  • Affiliations:

  • Graduate Institute of Network Learning Technology, National Central University, Taiwan, {hon, calvin, brian, chan}@lst.ncu.edu.tw;Graduate Institute of Network Learning Technology, National Central University, Taiwan, {hon, calvin, brian, chan}@lst.ncu.edu.tw;Graduate Institute of Network Learning Technology, National Central University, Taiwan, {hon, calvin, brian, chan}@lst.ncu.edu.tw;Graduate Institute of Network Learning Technology, National Central University, Taiwan, {hon, calvin, brian, chan}@lst.ncu.edu.tw

  • 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

This paper proposes an emotional responsibility strategy to design educational virtual characters, named animal companions. Different from the cognitive responsibility strategy, animal companions attempt to apply emotional attachment to deepen human-computer-interaction. Meanwhile, game strategies are also adopted to engage students in the interaction. A preliminary usage test was also conducted and reported by three fifth-grade elementary students.