Monitoring and Analysing Students' Systematic Behaviour - The SCY Pedagogical Agent Framework

In this paper we present an agent-based architecture to monitor and analyse students' behaviour while working with a simulation tool. This architecture is based on the blackboard principle and implemented using a Tuple-Spaces approach. The agents are divided into several groups according to their tasks to maximise autonomy and reusability. This separation was done with the idea of perceive-react-cycles in mind. An implemented example scenario that demonstrates how agents interact in generating meaningful context-aware student feedback is described. The visualisation of the agents' analysis results facilitates a deeper understanding of the learners' activities.

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