Implementation of Intelligent Agents with Mobility in Educational Robotics Settings

Teachers working in robotics classes face a major problem: how to keep track of individual students' or even small groups' progress in a class of 30-40 students. A multi-agent environment to help teachers with this problem is based on having pedagogical agents to monitor students' interaction, robots' movements, and the construction and programming process of robots. Mobile interaction agents move in network delivering agents' observations to teacher's visualization agent. Results of a linguistic analysis show the possible problems in educational robotics settings where the proposed agent-based system could help

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