Student's attitude and learning effectiveness of emotional agents

This paper describes the development of an emotional agent who affects the attitude of students towards learning and helps them overcome learning obstacles. Face to face communication is simulated through synthetic characters that have the potential to portray emotions by recording user's emotions and reacting accordingly. This form of communication might offer new approaches in the educational process that could enhance and improve e-learning. A study involving 52 higher education students who used an e-learning application with emotional agents is presented. © 2010 IEEE