"Oh dear stacy!": social interaction, elaboration, and learning with teachable agents
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...Such agents have been investigated in application areas including education (Cassell, 2004; Ogan et al., 2012), healthcare (Bickmore and Gruber, 2010) and entertainment (Lim and Reeves, 2010)....
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...Other studies showed that students engaged in playful interactions such as making face-threatening comments with tutoring agents, and found them to improve learning experience [32]....
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...Recent studies considered this kind of behaviors as playful interactions and a key aspect of the adoption of CAs [28, 32, 43], through which users explore the system and seek satisfaction from a sense of social contact....
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...HYPOTHESES Cognitive hypotheses of learning by teaching suggest that tutors will engage in more mental organization of the material and perform more self-explanation as they tutor, leading to learning gains [10,11,16,20,25]....
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...On the other hand, previous literature has also hypothesized that it is social factors that motivate the tutor effect [3, 7, 11, 15]....
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...A number of theories have been proposed to explain this effect, including increased motivation to learn the material [23], increased reflection on already learned material [19], and increased effort turning knowledge into coherent, communicable ideas [10,11,29]....
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...Given conflicting prior work on whether social relationships can be formed with virtual agents [5,16,17,18] we chose to look at the type of language students used when referring to the agent as a clue to their social stance....
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...While prior research has shown that children do treat virtual characters similarly to peers in both language use and nonverbal behavior [5], one of the open questions in teachable agent research is whether child tutors are capable of the social motivations described here with a virtual tutee, and whether these social behaviors effect the same tutor learning benefits that can be seen with human peer tutoring....
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...Instead they tend to answer questions with short keywords, providing no explanation [20, 21]....
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