The SAGRES Virtual Museum with Software Agents to Stimulate the Visiting of Museums

The SAGRES system is an educational environment built on the World Wide Web that facilitates the presentation of the information bases of a museum in a way that is adapted to the individual characteristics of each visitor. The interaction with the system may occur individually or in groups of students. The system also offers resources to support some forms of cooperative learning, allowing visitors to interact both synchronously and asynchronously, as well as locally (inside the museum) and non-locally (in places geographically distant from the museum). This cooperative learning is stimulated and monitored by software agents that use the human-computer interaction paradigm called directed improvisation to interact with the user. While helping the user, the agents improvise behaviors similar to human behaviors (e.g., happiness, satisfaction, and vibration), making the interaction friendlier. (Contains 10 references.) (Author/MES) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. The SAGRES Virtual Museum with Software Agents to Stimulate the Visiting of Museums PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) Marcia Cristina Moraes Institute de Informatica PUCRS Av. Ipiranga, 6681 predio 16 POA, RS, BR mmoraes@pucrs.br Ana Carolina Bertoletti Museu de Ciencias e Tecnologia PUCRS Av. Ipiranga, 6681 predio 40 POA, RS, BR carolina@pucrs.br Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa Escola de Informatica UCPEL Pelotas, RS, BR rocha@atlas.ucpel.tche.br OffUce S o f D EEPcAtRioTMl ENsT OcF EDUCATION improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) qt-This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. Abstract: The SAGRES system is an environment built on the Web, that facilitates the presentation of information bases of the museum, in a way which is adapted to the individual characteristics of each visitor. The interaction with the system may occur individually or in groups of students. The system offers also resources to support some forms of cooperative learning, allowing visitors to interact both synchronously and asynchronously, and both, locally, inside the museum, and non-locally, in places geographically distant from the museum. This cooperative learning is stimulated and monitorated by software agents that use the humam-computer interaction paradigm called directed improvisation to interact with the user. The agents improvise, while helping the user, a group of behaviors similar to human behaviors (happyness, satisfaction and vibration), making the interaction more friendly. The SAGRES system is an environment built on the Web, that facilitates the presentation of information bases of the museum, in a way which is adapted to the individual characteristics of each visitor. The interaction with the system may occur individually or in groups of students. The system offers also resources to support some forms of cooperative learning, allowing visitors to interact both synchronously and asynchronously, and both, locally, inside the museum, and non-locally, in places geographically distant from the museum. This cooperative learning is stimulated and monitorated by software agents that use the humam-computer interaction paradigm called directed improvisation to interact with the user. The agents improvise, while helping the user, a group of behaviors similar to human behaviors (happyness, satisfaction and vibration), making the interaction more friendly.