ITS-I: Intelligent Tutoring System with Integrated Cognition, Emotionand Motivation

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Resumo: The traditional ITS concepts generally do not cover emotion and motivation and do not observe the necessity to integrate these aspects with cognition. This work proposes an extension of the ITS concepts, describing the theoretical and practical basis of ITS-I – the Intelligent Tutoring System with Integrated Cognition, Emotion and Motivation. Its aim is to individually assist the students, regarded as whole beings, helping them in the learning process. In order to do that, variables are captured during the tutoring process, to inform inference structures to inform the integrated student model. This model and the information on motivation, emotion and cognition are used by a Diagnostic Module to prescribe the learning-teaching activities to the student, along with motivational actions. The proposed architecture has been implemented in a computer program called ECoM, that made it possible to experimentally evaluate the concepts proposed here.

Abstract: The traditional ITS concepts generally do not cover emotion and motivation and do not observe the necessity to integrate these aspects with cognition. This work proposes an extension of the ITS concepts, describing the theoretical and practical basis of ITS-I – the Intelligent Tutoring System with Integrated Cognition, Emotion and Motivation. Its aim is to individually assist the students, regarded as whole beings, helping them in the learning process. In order to do that, variables are captured during the tutoring process, to inform inference structures to inform the integrated student model. This model and the information on motivation, emotion and cognition are used by a Diagnostic Module to prescribe the learning-teaching activities to the student, along with motivational actions. The proposed architecture has been implemented in a computer program called ECoM, that made it possible to experimentally evaluate the concepts proposed here.