Publikationen

2012

• Increasing Learners’ Motivation through Pedagogical Agents: The Cast of Virtual Characters in the DynaLearn ILE
  M. Wißner, W. Beek, E. Lozano, G. Mehlmann, F. Linnebank, J. Liem, M. Häring, R. Bühling, J. Gracia, B. Bredeweg, E. André
  Agents for Educational Games and Simulations
  Fundstelle: pp. 151-165
  Motivation is a critical requirement for successful learning. Previous research has identified that animated pedagogical agents can increase motivation. Following these results, we present the cast of pedagogical agents in the DynaLearn Intelligent Learning Environment. Each of these agents is associated with one of the different support types available in the environment, giving each agent a clearly defined role. We describe the different character roles, how their knowledge is generated and related to the pedagogical purpose at hand, how they interact with the learners and finally how this interaction helps increasing the learners’ motivation. To assess this, we conducted a preliminary evaluation with three of the characters and report our findings.
• Keep an Eye on the Task! How Gender Typicality of Tasks Influence Human-Robot Interactions
  Dieta Kuchenbrandt, Markus Häring, Jessica Eichberg and Friederike Eyssel
  Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2012 (nominated for Best Paper Award ICSR 2012)
• Studies on Grounding with Gaze and Pointing Gestures in Human-Robot-Interaction
  Markus Häring, Jessica Eichberg and Elisabeth André
  Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2012
• User Defined Body Gestures for Navigational Control of a Humanoid Robot
  Mohammad Obaid, Markus Häring, Felix Kistler, René Bühling and Elisabeth André
  Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2012 (nominated for Best Paper Award ICSR 2012)

2011

• Creation and Evaluation of Emotion Expression with Body Movement, Sound and Eye Color for Humanoid Robots
  M. Häring, N. Bee and E. André
  Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2011, pp.204-209
• Character Roles and Interaction in the DynaLearn Intelligent Learning Environment
  M. Wißner, W. Beek, E. Lozano, G. Mehlmann, F. Linnebank, J. Liem, M. Häring, R. Bühling, J. Gracia, B. Bredeweg, E. André
  Proc. of the 15th Int. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2011
  Fundstelle: pp. 585-587

2010

• Design Decisions for Virtual Characters in the DynaLearn Interactive Learning Environment
  René Bühling, Michael Wissner, Markus Häring, Gregor Mehlmann and Elisabeth André
  Book of Abstracts of the 7th International Conference on Ecological Informatics, ISEI 7, pp. 144 - 145
• Multiple Agent Roles in an Adaptive Virtual Classroom Environment
  Gregor Mehlmann, Markus Häring, René Bühling, Michael Wißner and Elisabeth André
  Intelligent Virtual Agents, Volume 6356, pp. 250-256
  We present the design of a cast of pedagogical agents impersonating different educational roles in an interactive virtual learning environment. Teams of those agents are used to create different learning scenarios in order to provide learners with an engaging and motivating learning experience. Authors can employ an easy to use multimodal dialog authoring tool to adapt lecture and dialog content as well as interaction management to meet their respective requirements.