Embodied conversational interface agents
Communications of the ACM
Developing and evaluating conversational agents
Embodied conversational agents
Designing with children with severe motor impairments
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Embodied conversational agents in computer assisted language learning
Speech Communication
Playing with virtual peers: bootstrapping contingent discourse in children with autism
ICLS'08 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on International conference for the learning sciences - Volume 2
Can virtual humans be more engaging than real ones?
HCI'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human-computer interaction: intelligent multimodal interaction environments
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We have developed an educational software tool (Aprendiendo) to reinforce the learning process of children with special educational needs. This tool makes use of a variety of interactive technologies such as Embodied Conversational Agent and multimedia elements (video images from a WebCam, pictures and photos). In this paper we propose a multidisciplinary approach to system design and the evaluation of the users' experience, involving the engineers, teachers therapists and the children themselves, and combining Wizard-of-Oz with other techniques commonly employed in this educational context. We illustrate our approach with a real user evaluation of Aprendiendo's emotions module.