Title
The Effect of Metaphoric Gestures on Schematic Understanding of Instruction Performed by a Pedagogical Conversational Agent.
Abstract
In this paper, we examine the impact of metaphoric gestures performed by Pedagogical Conversational Agent (PCA) on learners' memorization of technical terms, understanding of relationships between abstract concepts, learning experience, and perception of the PCA. The study employed a one-factor three-level between-participants design where we manipulated gesture factor (speech-gesture match vs. speech-gesture mismatch vs. no-gesture). The data of 97 students were acquired in on-line learning environment. As the results, while there was no effect found on memorization of technical terms, we found that students showed accurate schematic understanding of the relationship between abstract concepts when the PCA used metaphoric gestures matched to speech content than when used gestures mismatched, and no gesture. Contrary to the result, we also found that students judged the PCA useful, helpful, and felt the PCA looked like a teacher when performed mismatched gestures to speech content than when performed matched gesture.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-20609-7_34
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Pedagogical agent,Metaphoric gesture,Understanding,Reliability
Computer science,Gesture,Schematic,Human–computer interaction,Learning experience,Natural language processing,Dialog system,Learning environment,Artificial intelligence,Perception,Memorization
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9192
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
5
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dai Hasegawa1267.62
Shinichi Shirakawa28311.70
Naoya Shioiri310.37
Toshiki Hanawa410.37
Hiroshi Sakuta5186.18
Kouzou Ohara638238.30