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AtGentive IST-4-027529-STP - Attentive Agents for Collaborative Learnersadult learners, located individually but collaborating using an internet-based system.AtGentNet is built on the ICDT virtual community platform, created by the INSEADBusiness School’s Centre for Advanced Learning Technologies. This platform is a webbasedvirtual environment aimed at supporting distributed groups and communities. Interms of functionality, the ICDT Platform integrates features aimed at providing efficientInformation, Communication, Distribution and Transaction channels used by thecommunity of users. This platform was adapted to incorporate AtGentive interventions,along with an embodied agent “AtGentiGirl” (a cartoon woman), based upon the resultsof formative evaluation (see Figure 1 and deliverable D4.2 – “Result of the FormativeEvaluation”).Figure 1 – Agents AtGentiGirl (AtGentNet) and Honza (AtGentSchool)1.2 Introduction to this documentThis document comprises the final report of the evaluation component of AtGentive.Summative evaluation details the results of two pilot studies – AtGentNet (an adultcollaborative learning platform) and AtGentSchool (an interactive guided learning systemfor children). This summative evaluation looks at the effects of modifying existingsoftware to make it “attention-aware” and respond accordingly.Strategic evaluation examines the wider effects of AtGentive - its potential for reuse,adaptation and influence of future attention-related research and systems’ development.1.3 Introduction to the Conceptual FrameworkThe starting point for design of AtGentive’s attention-based enhancements is theConceptual Framework. The framework breaks attention-supporting interventions intofour main forms (see Figure 2):• Perceptual – “Bottom-up” processes (e.g. a flashing image attracts attention)• Deliberative – “Top-down” processes (e.g. the user may decide to check theiremail every hour)• Operational – Managing interruptions (e.g. the user may disconnect a telephone)• Meta-cognitive – Self-support (e.g. the user may learn which emails are “junk”and can be ignored)Interventions may be seen as relating to three types of problem:Del 4.4: AtGentive Final Evaluation Report page 2
AtGentive IST-4-027529-STP - Attentive Agents for Collaborative Learners• Procedural interventions for Regulative problems• Content interventions for Cognitive problems• Process interventions for Meta-cognitive problemsA key aspect of the Conceptual Framework is that such interventions may be driven bythe monitoring of events. Such events will be discerned from as wide a variety of sourcesas possible. The main categories of event are as follows:• Application events (e.g. The user has started a task in the application, newinformation is available for the user)• User events (e.g. The user indicates that (s)he wants to be notified about certainevents, or that a task should have a high priority)• Tracking events (e.g. The user has been idle for some time, a resource has beenused by other users)The relationship between these different elements of the Conceptual Framework isillustrated in Figure 2. Support is broadly categorised as that of the user’s immediatefocus of attention (what they are concentrating on at this moment) and their broadervoluntary attentional choices (what they may choose to attend to next).EventsApplicationUserTrackingProblemsInterventionsRegulativeProceduralCognitiveContentMeta-cognitiveProcessScenariosAreas of supportUser’s focus selectionAttentional choicesLevels of supportPerceptual – “Bottom-up” processesDeliberative – “Top-down” processesOperational – Managing interruptionsMeta-cognitive – Self-supportFigure 2 - Relationship between areas of the Conceptual FrameworkIt is hypothesised that these events, which may be captured and analysed by AtGentiveagents, will reveal the interaction paths between the essential elements of User(s),Application (Ontdeknet, ICDT), Environment (external events) and the AtGentiveagent(s). Further, this observation will reveal the user(s)' attentional choices,preferences, and possible future foci. It is this analysis that results in the agent'sinterventions. These interactions are exemplified by a number of user scenarios (seedeliverable D1.3 – “AtGentive conceptual framework and application scenarios” – forfurther details). A number of these scenarios are implemented within AtGentive, asdescribed in Section 2.Del 4.4: AtGentive Final Evaluation Report page 3
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