@inproceedings{50390d933af444398e3ebfdae2abdaad,
title = "The impact of animated pedagogical agents on girls' and boys' emotions, attitudes, behaviors and learning",
abstract = "We report on the reactions of males and female students to the presence of animated pedagogical agents that provided emotional and motivational support. One hundred high school students used agents embedded in an Intelligent Tutoring System for Mathematics and randomized controlled evaluations compared students with and without learning companions. The results indicate that affective pedagogical agents improve affective outcomes of students in general and particularly so for female students, who reported being more frustrated and less confident while solving math problems prior to using the tutoring system. We discuss issues of incorporating gender into user models and of generating responses tailored to gender.",
keywords = "Empirical evaluation, Gender differences, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Mathematics education, Motivation and affect, Pedagogical agents",
author = "Ivon Arroyo and Woolf, {Beverly P.} and Cooper, {David G.} and Winslow Burleson and Kasia Muldner",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1109/ICALT.2011.157",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9780769543468",
series = "Proceedings of the 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2011",
pages = "506--510",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2011",
note = "2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2011 ; Conference date: 06-07-2011 Through 08-07-2011",
}