Workshop on Empirical Research with Pedagogical Agents

Schedule (w/slides)

ICT

Monday October 20, 2014, 3:30 pm – 8:00 pm

3:30 pm Arrival and reception (2nd floor, USC ICT, 12015 Waterfront Drive, Playa Vista, CA)
4:00 pm ICT Demos

6:00 pm Adjourn day #1
6:30 pm Dinner

 

Tuesday October 21, 2014, 9:00 am – 8:00 pmairport lounge

8:00 Breakfast
8:45 Welcome & overview of workshop [pdf]
H. Chad Lane, USC ICT
Session 1 Learning and efficacy studies (chair: Lane)
9:15 Research-Based Principles for the Design of Effective Pedagogical Agents [pdf]
Rich Mayer, UCSB
9:45 A Meta-Analytic Review of Learning with Visually-Represented Pedagogical Agents [pdf]
Noah Schroeder, Wright State Univ
10:15 Learning by Communicating with AutoTutor, Trialogs, and Other Pedagogical Agents [pdf]
Art Graesser, Univ of Memphis
10:45 BREAK
Session 2 Empathetic and social agents (chair: Graesser)
11:00 Empathetic Agents to Help Address Equity Issues in Education [pdf]
Yanghee Kim, USU
11:30 Learning as social interaction and pedagogical agents as social actors [pdf]
Ning Wang, USC ICT
12:00 From Coaches to Creative Collaborators: Empathic Pedagogical Agents [pdf]
James Lester, NCSU
12:30 LUNCH
Session 3 PA behavior (chair: Johnson)
2:00 Improving student learning by manipulating the behavior of virtual humans [pdf]
Scotty Craig, ASU
2:30 When teachers want to give your pedagogical agent detention: the opportunities and challenges for culturally-aligned educational technology [pdf]
Samantha Finkelstein, CMU
3:00 Gestures help us learn [pdf]
Michelle Perry, UIUC
3:30 BREAK & ATTENDEE DEMOS
Session 4 PANEL (Vista Room, Building 3)
4:00 Reactions, reflections, questions, & projections
Bill Swartout, USC ICT [pdf]
Jonathan Rowe, NCSU [pdf]
Donna Spruijt-Metz, USC Center for Economic & Social Research [pdf]
5:30 adjourn day #2
6:30 Dinner

 

Wednesday October 22, 2014, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm

8:00 Breakfast
Session 5 High-fidelity PA technologies (Chair: Lester)
9:00 Using Virtual Humans in Interpersonal Skills Training [pdf]
Gale Lucas, USC ICT
9:30 Passionate Pedagogical Agents [pdf]
H. Chad Lane, USC ICT
10:00 Agents and Virtual Role-Play [pdf]
W. Lewis Johnson, Alelo, Inc.
10:30 BREAK
10:45 10-minute talks & Wrap-up
Andrew Olney, University of Memphis [pdf]
Robert Hubal, SoarTech [pdf]
11:45 LUNCH
1:00 Workshop end