Exploring the integration of teaching capabilities into a CSCP framework through help agents

In this paper we describe and we evaluate the first stages of a strategy for attaching basic teaching capabilities to Computer Supported Cooperative Prototyping (CSCP) environments. The strategy is based on the integration of learning functions in the reasoning module of an Embodied Conversational Agent in charge of the Help Function of the application. This paper presents a CSCP framework dedicated to music prototyping on the Web which enabled us to conduct a first experiment to evaluate the grounds of our strategy.

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