TY - GEN
T1 - Intelligent tutoring goes to the museum in the big city
T2 - 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2011
AU - Lane, H. Chad
AU - Noren, Dan
AU - Auerbach, Daniel
AU - Birch, Mike
AU - Swartout, William
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - In this paper, we describe Coach Mike, a virtual staff member at the Boston Museum of Science that seeks to help visitors at Robot Park, an interactive exhibit for computer programming. By tracking visitor interactions and through the use of animation, gestures, and synthesized speech, Coach Mike provides several forms of support that seek to improve the experiences of museum visitors. These include orientation tactics, exploration support, and problem solving guidance. Additional tactics use encouragement and humor to entice visitors to stay more deeply engaged. Preliminary analysis of interaction logs suggest that visitors can follow Coach Mike's guidance and may be less prone to immediate disengagement, but further study is needed.
AB - In this paper, we describe Coach Mike, a virtual staff member at the Boston Museum of Science that seeks to help visitors at Robot Park, an interactive exhibit for computer programming. By tracking visitor interactions and through the use of animation, gestures, and synthesized speech, Coach Mike provides several forms of support that seek to improve the experiences of museum visitors. These include orientation tactics, exploration support, and problem solving guidance. Additional tactics use encouragement and humor to entice visitors to stay more deeply engaged. Preliminary analysis of interaction logs suggest that visitors can follow Coach Mike's guidance and may be less prone to immediate disengagement, but further study is needed.
KW - coaching
KW - computer science education
KW - entertainment
KW - informal science education
KW - intelligent tutoring systems
KW - pedagogical agents
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-21869-9_22
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-21869-9_22
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79959323853
SN - 9783642218682
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 155
EP - 162
BT - Artificial Intelligence in Education - 15th International Conference, AIED 2011
Y2 - 28 June 2011 through 1 July 2011
ER -