Evaluating the affective tactics of an emotional pedagogical agent

Architecture for animation of affective behaviors in pedagogical agents

“…The tactics already inserted in the Body agent database result from previous work on affective pedagogical agents by the authors of this paper (the agent Pat 16,35,36 ) and were conceived based on pedagogical and psychological studies concerning student's motivation [37][38][39] and self-efficacy 40 . They are not detailed here, as only the Mind agent is concerned with deciding which affective tactic to apply, and these tactics and corresponding affective behavior should be designed by its developers.…”

“…These affective tactics are even more effective if they take into account student's emotional states. In this case, the agent should recognize student emotions in order to select the most appropriate affective tactic, as in the case of the Pat agent 35,36 . Therefore, the Mind agent should include mechanisms to infer student emotions and to choose affective tactics accordingly.…”

“…In order to better understand the process of selecting an affective tactic and its corresponding behaviors, let us consider an illustrative scenario of the agent Pat as described in Jaques et al 35 .…”

“…Further details about agent Pat and the choice of affective tactics can be found elsewhere [34][35][36] . …”

“…And the monkey was chosen because children like to interact with pets that think and speak, as in a cartoon. Pat is a character defined in previous works 35,36,50,51 .…”