Deliverable 4.4 - INSEAD CALT

AtGentive IST-4-027529-STP - Attentive Agents for Collaborative LearnersThe experiences gained from the pilots also provide academic and commercialresearchers with knowledge about the challenges in piloting complex educationalsoftware systems remotely in an international, multi-cultural setting.Integratability:If the results were to be put in a form of manual or “a case study” they could beintegrated into any document.Practicality:The results create a very practical document for research projects and pilots in this area.The report on the results of pilots is written to be understandable by anyone familiar withthe problem domain. Very often projects include only a few lines on pilots (length, time,involvement of teachers / students) and only very general guidance on how to carry it outand the critical do’s and don’ts.Limitations:Some of the knowledge gained from the pilot experiments may be culture - or country -specific. However, the pilot results are potentially beneficial to all developers ofeducational software at a general level.Description6.4.9 Physiological experiment resultsFour separate experiments are described – see Section 5 of this report.ImplementabilityThe results of the experiment offer us valuable information on the effects that gestureandexpression-based cues of an embodied agent have on a user’s attention and, byextension, learning performance. This information can be used to enhance the usabilityand role of agents in various applications and environment that involve the guidance ofattention.Integratability:Although the experiment was conducted with the Cantoche agent, the results canpotentially be extended to other similar humanlike embodied agent with similarcapabilities to gesture.Practicality:The results of the experiments provide a solid basis for further experiments in this area.On their own, they provide an interesting point of view into understanding human-agentinteraction.Limitations:The situations investigated only represent a part of the agent’s capabilities for attentionguidance. Furthermore, visual attention will also be affected by things as interfaceelements, usability of the system, the user’s interests and level of skill.Description6.4.10 Publications – papers / web siteAppendix 7 contains a full list of AtGentive-related publications, as at this report’s date.Del 4.4: AtGentive Final Evaluation Report page 87