Probabilistic assessment of user's emotions in educational games
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- 1 August 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Applied Artificial Intelligence
- Vol. 16 (7-8) , 555-575
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08839510290030390
Abstract
We present a probabilistic model to monitor a user's emotions and engagement during the interaction with educational games. We illustrate how our probabilistic model assesses affect by integrating evidence on both possible causes of the user's emotional arousal (i.e., the state of the interaction) and its effects (i.e., bodily expressions that are known to be influenced by emotional reactions). The probabilistic model relies on a Dynamic Decision Network to leverage any indirect evidence on the user's emotional state, in order to estimate this state and any other related variable in the model. This is crucial in a modeling task in which the available evidence usually varies with the user and with each particular interaction. The probabilistic model we present is to be used by decision theoretic pedagogical agents to generate interventions aimed at achieving the best tradeoff between a user's learning and engagement during the interaction with educational games.Keywords
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