Lifelike Pedagogical Agents and Affective Computing: An Exploratory Synthesis

Abstract

Lifelike pedagogical agents have been the subject of increasing attention in the agents and knowledge-based learning environment communities [2, 17, 19—21]. In parallel developments, recent years have witnessed great strides in work on cognitive models of emotion and affective reasoning [4,18, 22]. As a result, the time is now ripe for exploring how affective reasoning can be incorporated into pedagogical agents to improve students’ learning experiences.