Modeling Students' Emotions from Cognitive Appraisal in Educational Games

  • Authors:
  • Cristina Conati;Xiaoming Zhou

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ITS '02 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We present a probabilistic model that assesses student emotional reaction during interaction with an educational game. Following a well-known cognitive theory of emotions (the OCC theory), the model predicts a student's emotional state by assessing the student's appraisal of her interaction with the game, in light of the student's goals and personality. We illustrate how the model relies on a Dynamic Decision Network that is based on both the OCC theory and observations from two user studies.