Emotional Dialogue in a Virtual Tutor for Educational Software

Authors: María Lucila Morales-Rodríguez, Juan J. González B., Rogelio Florencia-Juárez, Julia Patricia Sánchez-Solís

Research in Computing Science, Vol. 56, pp. 19-27, 2012.

Abstract: In this paper, an educational software used to enhance the skills of children in the area of math is presented. This software has a tutor who guides the child in different activities. The tutor exhibits personality traits and emotions in its dialogue to create a sense of immersion in the student and catch his attention towards the game. We adapted an Emotional Extension of the Artificial Intelligence Markup Language, structure here named as EE-AIML.

Keywords: Educational software, intelligent conversational agent, AIML, personality, emotions

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