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Gender differences in allocation of attention and read time in an educational history game

Tärning, Betty LU and Tjøstheim, Trond A. LU (2019) 7th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, HAI 2019 In HAI 2019 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction p.229-231
Abstract

Previous research has shown that female students sometimes benefit more than males when it comes to interacting with pedagogical agents. In our analysis we examined students' tendency to attend to and read feedback text that were visually signalled by a teachable agent (TA), or by an arrow (AR), or non-signalled in a control condition (CN). The results indicate that male learners may benefit from having a TA signalling such feedback texts. The female learners in the study allocated their attention quite similarly between the three different signaling conditions whereas the male learners were most likely to attend to the feedback when presented by their TA. However, for reading the feedback text, both male and female students were more... (More)

Previous research has shown that female students sometimes benefit more than males when it comes to interacting with pedagogical agents. In our analysis we examined students' tendency to attend to and read feedback text that were visually signalled by a teachable agent (TA), or by an arrow (AR), or non-signalled in a control condition (CN). The results indicate that male learners may benefit from having a TA signalling such feedback texts. The female learners in the study allocated their attention quite similarly between the three different signaling conditions whereas the male learners were most likely to attend to the feedback when presented by their TA. However, for reading the feedback text, both male and female students were more inclined to read the feedback texts when presented by their TA, compared to in the two other conditions.

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Attention, Gender differences, Teachable agent
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HAI 2019 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction
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HAI 2019 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction
pages
3 pages
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
conference name
7th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, HAI 2019
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Kyoto, Japan
conference dates
2019-10-06 - 2019-10-10
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  • scopus:85077131640
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9781450369220
DOI
10.1145/3349537.3352774
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English
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  author       = {{Tärning, Betty and Tjøstheim, Trond A.}},
  booktitle    = {{HAI 2019 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction}},
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  keywords     = {{Attention; Gender differences; Teachable agent}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{229--231}},
  publisher    = {{Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)}},
  series       = {{HAI 2019 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction}},
  title        = {{Gender differences in allocation of attention and read time in an educational history game}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3349537.3352774}},
  doi          = {{10.1145/3349537.3352774}},
  year         = {{2019}},
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