RECOGNITION AND GENERATION OF EMOTIONS IN AFFECTIVE e-LEARNING

Efthymios Alepis, Maria Virvou, Katerina Kabassi

2009

Abstract

This paper presents an educational system that incorporates two theories namely SAW and OCC in order to provide an improved affective e-learning environment. Simple additive Weighting (SAW) is used for the recognition of possible emotional states of the users, while the cognitive theory of emotions (OCC) is used for the generation of emotional states by educational agents. The system bases its inferences about users’ emotions on user input evidence from the keyboard and the microphone, as two commonly used modalities of human-computer interaction. The actual combination of evidence from these two modes of interaction has been performed based on a sophisticated inference mechanism for emotions and a multi-attribute decision making theory. At the same time, user action evidence from the two modes of interaction also activates the cognitive mechanisms of the underlying OCC model that proposes emotional behavioural tactics for educational agents who act for pedagogic purposes. The presented educational system provides the important facility to authors to develop tutoring systems that incorporate emotional agents who can be parameterized so as to reflect their vision of teaching behaviour.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Alepis E., Virvou M. and Kabassi K. (2009). RECOGNITION AND GENERATION OF EMOTIONS IN AFFECTIVE e-LEARNING . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-674-010-8, pages 273-280. DOI: 10.5220/0002242802730280

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft09,
author={Efthymios Alepis and Maria Virvou and Katerina Kabassi},
title={RECOGNITION AND GENERATION OF EMOTIONS IN AFFECTIVE e-LEARNING},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,},
year={2009},
pages={273-280},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002242802730280},
isbn={978-989-674-010-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,
TI - RECOGNITION AND GENERATION OF EMOTIONS IN AFFECTIVE e-LEARNING
SN - 978-989-674-010-8
AU - Alepis E.
AU - Virvou M.
AU - Kabassi K.
PY - 2009
SP - 273
EP - 280
DO - 10.5220/0002242802730280