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most citedConversational agents for fostering curiosity-driven learning in children

39 citations · 90 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CY2024★ 4 cited

Interactive environments for training children's curiosity through the practice of metacognitive skills: a pilot study

Rania Abdelghani, Edith Law, Chloé Desvaux +2

Curiosity-driven learning has shown significant positive effects on students' learning experiences and outcomes. But despite this importance, reports show that children lack this s…

cs.HC2023★ 16 cited

Learning by Teaching: Key Challenges and Design Implications

Amy Debbané, Ken Jen Lee, Jarvis Tse +1

Benefits of learning by teaching (LbT) have been highlighted by previous studies from a pedagogical lens, as well as through computer-supported systems. However, the challenges tha…

cs.HC2023★ 1 cited

Value Reflection: Motivation, Examples and The Role of Technology

Ken Jen Lee, Edith Law

Findings from existing research provide possible evidence that values are an important construct that should be part of the self-reflection process. However, many questions about v…

cs.HC2023★ 2 cited

Towards a More Inclusive Metaverse via Designing Tools That Support Collaborative Virtual World Building by Users With and Without Disabilities

Ken Jen Lee, Edith Law

Research has found social VR to bring various benefits to users with and without disabilities. Given the success of social VR applications that support user-created worlds, it is i…

cs.HC2022★ 39 cited

Conversational agents for fostering curiosity-driven learning in children

Rania Abdelghani, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Edith Law +2

Curiosity is an important factor that favors independent and individualized learning in children. Research suggests that it is also a competence that can be fostered by training sp…

cs.HC2022

Natural Language Communication with a Teachable Agent

Rachel Love, Edith Law, Philip R. Cohen +1

Conversational teachable agents offer a promising platform to support learning, both in the classroom and in remote settings. In this context, the agent takes the role of the novic…

cs.RO2021★ 28 cited

Identifying Functions and Behaviours of Social Robots during Learning Activities: Teachers' Perspective

Jessy Ceha, Edith Law, Dana Kulić +2

With advances in artificial intelligence, research is increasingly exploring the potential functions that social robots can play in education. As teachers are a critical stakeholde…

cs.CY2021

Exploring Individual and Collaborative Storytelling in an Introductory Creative Coding Class

Sangho Suh, Ken Jen Lee, Celine Latulipe +2

Teaching programming through storytelling is a popular pedagogical approach and an active area of research. However, most previous work in this area focused on K-12 students using…

cs.HC2021

Rethinking Immersive Virtual Reality and Empathy

Ken Jen Lee, Edith Law

In this position paper, we aim to spark more discussions surrounding the use of empathy as the intended outcome of many studies on immersive virtual reality experiences. As a const…