Design Guidelines for Animated Pedagogical Agents

The area of animated pedagogical agents is related to the development of applications that aim to improve the human-computer interaction process (by human, we mean students and professors) using software agents represented by characters or human figures. In order to help researchers to project pedagogical agents that can enhance human-agent usability, this paper will discuss basic guidelines for animated pedagogical agents design based on concepts provided by Computer in Education, Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction.

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