TY - GEN
T1 - Animated engineering tutors
T2 - 42nd Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2012
AU - Ozogul, Gamze
AU - Johnson, Amy
AU - Reisslein, Martin
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The goal of the study was to explore middle school students' preferences for an animated engineering tutor, and investigate their rationales for their choices. 77 middle school students participated in the study, and provided their preferences and rationales on various dimensions of an animated engineering tutor such as gender, age, personality, and clothing. Results showed that for teaching engineering in a computer-based instructional module, students preferred an animated engineering tutor that was similar to their age, matching their own gender, with a fun personality, and that speaks slowly.
AB - The goal of the study was to explore middle school students' preferences for an animated engineering tutor, and investigate their rationales for their choices. 77 middle school students participated in the study, and provided their preferences and rationales on various dimensions of an animated engineering tutor such as gender, age, personality, and clothing. Results showed that for teaching engineering in a computer-based instructional module, students preferred an animated engineering tutor that was similar to their age, matching their own gender, with a fun personality, and that speaks slowly.
KW - animated pedagogical agents
KW - engineering education
KW - engineering tutor
KW - preferences
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U2 - 10.1109/FIE.2012.6462209
DO - 10.1109/FIE.2012.6462209
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84874741989
SN - 9781467313513
T3 - Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
BT - 2012 Frontiers in Education Conference
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 3 October 2012 through 6 October 2012
ER -