EAN: 9783319931968

HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SERIES AFFECTIVE F...

Affective components are as important as cognitive components in tutoring assisted learning
process. Feedback from tutors is essential in keeping students motivated. Affectivity and
motivation are also significant in computer-based tutoring systems. However  several
educational frameworks do not include this kind of interaction between students and tutoring
systems. In those cases  the students learning interest and motivation to learn could be
negatively affected  and student profits from the system could be impoverished. This is why
tutoring systems need to provide direct and affective interaction with students  it can
encourage them and increase the motivation to learn. This book introduces a broad range of
topics in affective learning in computer-based systems. The text offers a deep conceptual
background  covering relevant concepts of affectivity  feedback and motivational components in
learning environments. It describes the design of a proposed model for providing affective
feedback  the mathematical validation of the conceptual model and its implementation. Moreover
it presents an analysis of the impact of the affective feedback on student motivation to learn.
Finally  the book offers research perspectives of the impact and applicability of the affective
feedback in computer-based tutoring environments. Affective Feedback in Intelligent Tutoring
Systems can be used by human tutors who want to include motivational and affective elements in
the learning process  researchers in Human-Computer Interaction and Education and by software
developers who want to develop learning systems using these elements.

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