Designing a tutoring agent for facilitating collaborative learning with instant messaging

Authors:
Sheng-Cheng Hsu;Min-Yuh Day;Shih-Hung Wu;Wing-Kwong Wong;Wen-Lian Hsu
Affiliations:
Graduate School of Engineering Science and Technology;Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan;Department of CSIE, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan;Graduate School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan;Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Venue:
ITS'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Year:
2006

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Abstract

In this study, we propose a tutoring agent that uses MSN Messenger, a popular synchronous internet media, as the communication platform. Students can invite the agent to a discussion session on MSN Messenger. The agent understands the students' questions in natural language, and provides answers or hints during the group discussion. Unlike a traditional natural language tutoring agent that converses with one student at a time, our agent needs to work with a group of students in MSN chat.