Speakers & Abstracts

Scotty D. Craig
Arizona State University, Human Systems Engineering

• Improving student learning by manipulating the behavior of virtual humans

 

Samantha Finkelstein
Carnegie Mellon University, Human Computer Interaction

• When teachers want to give your pedagogical agent detention: the opportunities and challenges for culturally-aligned educational technology

 

Art Graesser
University of Memphis, Dept. of Psychology & Fedex Institute

• Learning by Communicating with AutoTutor, Trialogs, and Other Pedagogical Agents

 

W. Lewis Johnson
Alelo, Inc.

• Agents and Virtual Role-Play

 

H. Chad Lane
USC Institute for Creative Technologies & Rossier School of Education

• Passionate Pedagogical Agents

 

James C. Lester
North Carolina State University, Department of Computer Science

• From Coaches to Creative Collaborators: Empathic Pedagogical Agents

 

Gale Lucas
USC Institute for Creative Technologies

• Using Virtual Humans in Interpersonal Skills Training

 

Yanghee Kim
Utah State University, Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences

• Empathetic Agents to Help Address Equity Issues in Education

 

Rich Mayer
University of California, Santa Barbara, Dept. of Psychology

•  Research-Based Principles for the Design of Effective Pedagogical Agents

 

Michelle Perry
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Dept. of Educational Psychology

• Gestures help us learn

 

Noah Schroeder
Wright State University, College of Education

• A Meta-Analytic Review of Learning with Visually-Represented Pedagogical Agents

 

Ning Wang
USC Institute for Creative Technologies

• Learning as social interaction and pedagogical agents as social actors