TY - GEN
T1 - Applications of a pedagogical agent mechanism in a web-based clinical simulation system for medical education
AU - Cheng, Yuh Ming
AU - Chen, Lih-Shyang
AU - Weng, Sheng Feng
AU - Chen, Yong Guo
AU - Lin, Chyi-Her
PY - 2007/12/1
Y1 - 2007/12/1
N2 - In education, computer learning systems make wide use of pedagogical agents to simulate a tutor and/or mimic tutoring interaction, as well as offering just-in-time and adaptive feedback. Although the theoretical aspect of the pedagogical agents has been well-documented in the literature, relatively fewer efforts have been made on how a pedagogical agent should be implemented in a real multimedia computerized simulation learning environment. In this paper, we propose a pedagogical agent architecture and implement it in the multimedia medical simulation web-based learning system call HINTS to further facilitate students' learning and thereby make the HINTS a more effective educational tool. A preliminary students' performance evaluation result is reported. Some experiments have been conducted and the results show that the pedagogical agent indeed help the students in their learning process.
AB - In education, computer learning systems make wide use of pedagogical agents to simulate a tutor and/or mimic tutoring interaction, as well as offering just-in-time and adaptive feedback. Although the theoretical aspect of the pedagogical agents has been well-documented in the literature, relatively fewer efforts have been made on how a pedagogical agent should be implemented in a real multimedia computerized simulation learning environment. In this paper, we propose a pedagogical agent architecture and implement it in the multimedia medical simulation web-based learning system call HINTS to further facilitate students' learning and thereby make the HINTS a more effective educational tool. A preliminary students' performance evaluation result is reported. Some experiments have been conducted and the results show that the pedagogical agent indeed help the students in their learning process.
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U2 - 10.1109/IIHMSP.2007.4457628
DO - 10.1109/IIHMSP.2007.4457628
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:47349125431
SN - 0769529941
SN - 9780769529943
T3 - Proceedings - 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, IIHMSP 2007.
SP - 635
EP - 638
BT - Proceedings - 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, IIHMSP 2007.
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, IIHMSP 2007
Y2 - 26 November 2007 through 28 November 2007
ER -