Emotional Interaction Agents in Intelligent Tutoring Systems

A model of emotional interaction agents in intelligent tutoring systems is presented in this paper, and the functionalities of the key components of the agents are described. To improve the emotional interaction between learners and the system, a kind of emotional interaction agents which can deduce users emotional statues, provide helps needed, and mark emotional difficulty of the learned pedagogical units, is introduced and discussed in detail in order to improve pedagogical effects.