Monitoring and analysing students' systematic behaviour - the SCY pedagogical agent framework

Authors:
Stefan Weinbrenner;Jan Engler;Astrid Wichmann;Ulrich Hoppe
Affiliations:
University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany;University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany;University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany;University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
Venue:
EC-TEL'10 Proceedings of the 5th European conference on Technology enhanced learning conference on Sustaining TEL: from innovation to learning and practice
Year:
2010

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Abstract

In this paper we present an agent-based architecture to monitor and analyse students' behaviour while working with a simulation tool. This architecture is based on the blackboard principle and implemented using a Tuple-Spaces approach. The agents are divided into several groups according to their tasks to maximise autonomy and reusability. This separation was done with the idea of perceive-react-cycles in mind. An implemented example scenario that demonstrates how agents interact in generating meaningful context-aware student feedback is described. The visualisation of the agents' analysis results facilitates a deeper understanding of the learners' activities.