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Explanation Activities with a Pedagogical Agent in an Online Task: Lexical Network Analysis

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CHI EA '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2732751

Published: 18 April 2015 Publication History

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The study investigates learning activities of students making explanations about a key concept in an online system with a Pedagogical Conversational Agent providing (1) facilitation on learners' explanations from various views and (2)social facilitation prompts of other members in the classroom. A total of 314 learner's explanation activities were collected and their input messages were analyzed by conducting a lexical network analysis which enables to capture the diversity of the learners explanations. The results of the analysis showed that those using the PCAs with social feedback about other members, described the key concept more sufficiently using various categorical explaining words. The results provide implications on how to design online tutoring systems based on social facilitation and how massive textual data can be analyzed using network analysis.

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Sterna RStrojny PRębilas K(2019)Can Virtual Observers Affect Our Behavior? Social Facilitation in Virtual Environments: A Mini-ReviewSocial Psychological Bulletin10.32872/spb.v14i3.3009114:3Online publication date: 13-Nov-2019
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HAYASHI Y(2016)Lexical Network Analysis on an Online Explanation Task: Effects of Affect and Embodiment of a Pedagogical AgentIEICE Transactions on Information and Systems10.1587/transinf.2015CBP0005E99.D:6(1455-1461)Online publication date: 2016
https://doi.org/10.1587/transinf.2015CBP0005
Hayashi YGergle DMorris MBjørn PKonstan J(2016)Analyzing Lexical Expressions in an Human-Agent Online Explanation Task: Influence of Affect and CharacteristicsProceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Companion10.1145/2818052.2869092(285-288)Online publication date: 27-Feb-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2818052.2869092

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Explanation Activities with a Pedagogical Agent in an Online Task: Lexical Network Analysis
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CHI EA '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2015

2546 pages

ISBN:9781450331463

DOI:10.1145/2702613

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Bo Begole
Huawei, USA
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Yonsei University, Korea
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Microsoft Research, USA
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KAIST, Korea

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Sterna RStrojny PRębilas K(2019)Can Virtual Observers Affect Our Behavior? Social Facilitation in Virtual Environments: A Mini-ReviewSocial Psychological Bulletin10.32872/spb.v14i3.3009114:3Online publication date: 13-Nov-2019
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HAYASHI Y(2016)Lexical Network Analysis on an Online Explanation Task: Effects of Affect and Embodiment of a Pedagogical AgentIEICE Transactions on Information and Systems10.1587/transinf.2015CBP0005E99.D:6(1455-1461)Online publication date: 2016
https://doi.org/10.1587/transinf.2015CBP0005
Hayashi YGergle DMorris MBjørn PKonstan J(2016)Analyzing Lexical Expressions in an Human-Agent Online Explanation Task: Influence of Affect and CharacteristicsProceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Companion10.1145/2818052.2869092(285-288)Online publication date: 27-Feb-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2818052.2869092

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