During the 15th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2020), researchers from the GSIC/EMIC research group were awarded with the Best Demo and Best Research Paper Award. These awards acknowledge the research work in two strands led by Dr. Adolfo Ruiz-Calleja and Dr. Konstantinos Michos respectively.
Dr. Adolfo Ruiz-Calleja presented the work “Casual Learn: A smart application to learn History of Art” during the demonstration session of the conference. This application exploits the Web of Data to bridge formal and informal learning. Casual Learn offers informal learning tasks to students based on their context: their geolocation, the activity they do and the topics covered in their formal education. In its current version, CasualLearn uses a dataset of more tan 16,000 contextualized informal learning tasks from the Spanish region of Castile and Leon that were semi-automatically created exploiting Open Data from the Web.
Dr. Konstantinos Michos presented the paper entitled “Design of Conversational Agents for CSCL: Comparing Two Types of Agent Intervention Strategies in a University Classroom” This paper describes a pedagogical design space of conversational agents for collaborative learning composed of three dimensions: task design, domain model and agent intervention strategies. The authors performed an initial field study in an university classroom with 54 students. The study compared two types of agent intervention strategies, which differ on student participation, dialogue and satisfaction.
Citations:
- Ruiz-Calleja, A., Bote-Lorenzo, M.L., Vega-Gorgojo, G., Serrano-Iglesias, S., García-Zarza, P., Asensio-Pérez, J.I., Gómez-Sánchez, E. (2020) CasualLearn: A Smart Application to Learn History of Art. In Proceedings of Fifteenth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning. Heidelberg, Germany.
- Michos, K., Asensio-Pérez, J.I., Dimitriadis, Y., García-Sastre, S., Villagrá-Sobrino, S., Ortega-Arranz, A., Gómez-Sánchez, E., Topali, P. (2020) Design of Conversational Agents for CSCL: Comparing Two Types of Agent Intervention Strategies in a University Classroom. In Proceedings of Fifteenth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning. Heidelberg, Germany.