Intelligent Tutoring in Virtual Reality: A Preliminary Report

Virtual reality simulation environments o er exciting opportunities and challenges for intelligent tutoring systems. Students, immersed in a 3D computer simulation of their work environment, improve their skills through practice on realistic tasks. Computer tutors can inhabit the virtual world along with students, allowing them to physically collaborate with students on tasks, and they can interact and communicate in nonverbal ways that would be impossible with a traditional disembodied computer tutor. This paper discusses these opportunities and challenges, as well as our progress in addressing them in our pedagogical agent Steve.

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