"What if there was no oxygen?": responding to hypothetical questions in an intelligent tutoring agent

Authors:
Neil Yorke-Smith;Stijn Heymans;Vinay Chaudhri
Affiliations:
American University of Beirut & University of Cambridge, Beirut, Lebanon;SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA;SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Our aim is for intelligent tutoring agents to replace traditional and even online textbooks with personalized, adaptive, one-to-one instruction. We focus on science subjects, and describe an approach to answering hypothetical questions from the student, such as "Would cellular respiration continue in the absence of oxygen?"