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Cognitive Intelligent Tutoring System based on Affective State


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1 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Annamalai University, Chidambaram - 608002, Tamil Nadu, India
2 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Annamalai University, Chidambaram - 608002, Tamil Nadu, India
 

This paper presents a novel Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS). The goal of our virtual tutor is to mimic like a human tutor in order to advance the communication and effectiveness of the students learning experience. Towards these goals we designed a Conversational Intelligent Tutoring System (CITS) with multimodal behavior, emotive speech and friendliness. Moreover to improve the student’s interaction and to engage their attention, our virtual tutor attempts to ask questions from their thought lesson and assists the students during learning activities. A statistical Friedman analysis was conducted and the results revealed that, our intelligent virtual tutoring system can able to successfully recognize student’s behavior and respond according to it. And also participants were asked later to rate the teaching and learning environment of our intelligent system, the review shows that they feel lively.

Keywords

Emotive Speech, Friendliness Behavior, Virtual Agent
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Authors

N. Rajkumar
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Annamalai University, Chidambaram - 608002, Tamil Nadu, India
V. Ramalingam
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Annamalai University, Chidambaram - 608002, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract


This paper presents a novel Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS). The goal of our virtual tutor is to mimic like a human tutor in order to advance the communication and effectiveness of the students learning experience. Towards these goals we designed a Conversational Intelligent Tutoring System (CITS) with multimodal behavior, emotive speech and friendliness. Moreover to improve the student’s interaction and to engage their attention, our virtual tutor attempts to ask questions from their thought lesson and assists the students during learning activities. A statistical Friedman analysis was conducted and the results revealed that, our intelligent virtual tutoring system can able to successfully recognize student’s behavior and respond according to it. And also participants were asked later to rate the teaching and learning environment of our intelligent system, the review shows that they feel lively.

Keywords


Emotive Speech, Friendliness Behavior, Virtual Agent



DOI: https://doi.org/10.17485/ijst%2F2015%2Fv8i24%2F117032