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Conversational Agents and Learning Outcomes: An Experimental Investigation
Bob Heller; Mike Procter
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 945–950
An experimental approach was used to compare two types of web interfaces (text-based vs. conversation-based) to content on the life and theories of Jean Piaget. The content in each interface was identical with the exception of third- vs. first...
Topics: Learning Outcomes, Distance Education
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Freudbot: An Investigation of Chatbot Technology in Distance Education
Bob Heller; Mike Proctor; Dean Mah; Lisa Jewell; Bill Cheung
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 3913–3918
A chatbot named Freudbot was constructed using the open source architecture of AIML to determine if a famous person application of chatbot technology could improve student-content interaction in distance education. Fifty-three students in psychology ...
Topics: Distance Education, Educational Technology