Which social-pedagogical teaching techniques can be translated into the automated tutoring paradigm?
Successful human teachers use an array of techniques, many of them generally applicable to many, varied, domains. Some of these may well translate into the automated tutoring paradigm. Applications which allow us to explore, and measure, this will be useful to the field as a whole. • Motivation is a key ingredient in learning. Emotion plays an important role in motivation. A computer tutor that is sensitive to a student’s feelings of, e.g., pride and frustration, and appears to care about the student’s progress, is more likely to motivate that student. • Acknowledgment of progress. Agents who are capable of being enthusiastic about a student’s progress in a domain, may help to give a student the impression that they really do care about how well the student is progressing on the tasks at hand. Simple acknowledgment for domain tasks achieved, and the perceived tutor emotional responses of joy, pride in the student, and so forth, may well create an environment of collaboration that foste
