Virtual Teachers Outperform Real Thing


	Virtual Teachers Outperform Real Thing

wildcat

2-22-2008 7:40 AM

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teaching, virtuality

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2-23-2008 11:45 AM

anthonyo

What kind of advanced social skills can you learn better than with a real person?

2-23-2008 9:14 PM

skwirlinator

Teenage boys all over the US are now confused. Is cybersex good or bad?

2-23-2008 9:20 PM

willhelm

This is a concept I haven' t considered. Automated teaching. This is an outstanding idea to consider.

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BOSTON — Never let schooling get in the way of your education, Mark
Twain supposedly said, and the latest advances in psychology and
behavior science take that to a new dimension — virtual reality and the
digital domain.
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<A href="http://www.livescience.com/technology/071127-eve-robot.html" linkindex="41">Virtual characters</A>  and digital tutors are helping children and
adults develop advanced social and language skills that can be tough to
learn via conventional approaches, according to researchers who briefed
reporters here last week at the annual meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Justine Cassell of Northwestern University has found that children
with autism can develop advanced social skills by interacting with a
"virtual child" that they might not develop by hanging out with real
children or teachers. Cassell is credited with developing the Embodied
Conversational Agent (ECA), a virtual human capable of interacting with
humans using language and gestures.
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