Development of user interface agent in multimedia courseware / Mohamad Shukri Abdurrahman Zuhair

Recent years have witnessed the birth of a new paradigm for learning environments:
animated interface agents. These lifelike autonomous characters inhabit learning
environments with students to create rich, face-to-face learning interactions. This
opens up exciting new possibilities; for example, agents can demonstrate complex
tasks, employ gesture to focus student's attention on the most significant aspect of
the task at hand and express emotional responses to the tutorial situation. Animated
interface agents offer great promise for broadening the bandwidth of tutorial
communication and increasing learning environment's ability to engage and motivate
students. This project develops an animated pedagogical interface agent for
multimedia courseware entitles KOMSAS. The introduction of a pedagogical
interface agent to KOMSAS courseware enables it to provide higher motivational
support to the students and enhances their quality of learning.