OperationARIES!: aliens, spies and research methods

  • Authors:

  • Carol M. Forsyth;Arthur C. Graesser;Keith Millis;Zhiqiang Cai;Diane Halpern

  • Affiliations:

  • Institute for Intelligent Systems, The University of Memphis, Memphis,TN;Institute for Intelligent Systems, The University of Memphis, Memphis,TN;Northern Illinois University, Psychology Department, DeKalb, Illinois;Institute for Intelligent Systems, The University of Memphis, Memphis,TN;Claremont McKenna College, Psychology Department, CA

  • Venue:
  • ACII'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Affective computing and intelligent interaction - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Operation ARIES! is an Intelligent Tutoring System that teaches research methodology in a game-like atmosphere. There is a dramatic storyline that engages and motivates students as they acquire both declarative knowledge and critical reasoning skills. ARIES has three modules in which students maintain mixed-initiative dialogue with multiple artificial agents. The internal architecture is similar to that of AutoTutor which uses natural language interaction in the tutorial dialogues. Learning as well as the engaging and motivating factors of ARIES are currently being investigated.