• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.281-292
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of gesture and facial expression on persona effects. Fifty-six college students were recruited for this study, and non-verbal communication skills were applied to a pedagogical agent with gesture (conversational vs. deictic) and facial expression. The conversational gesture may have relationship with social interaction hypothesis of pedagogical agent while the deictic gesture may have relationship with attentional guidance hypothesis. The facial expression can be assumed to facilitate the social interaction between the pedagogical agent and learners. Interestingly, the conversational gesture group showed a tendency of outperforming the deictic gesture group. It may imply that the social interaction theory has a strong impact on cognitive support as well as social interaction for learners. There was a significant interaction effect on the engagement when both of facial expression and conversational gesture were applied. This result has two implications. First, facial expression can facilitate the persona effect for engagement.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.358-369
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to verify the anthropomorphic design factors of pedagogical agents that can enhance user experience in learning foreign languages (English) through smartphones. In this study, when designing a pedagogical agent that delivers content, the presence or absence of the agent's image, the degree of human nature (HN), and role setting (leader vs. companion) among the anthropomorphic factors that influence facilitating learning, credibility, and engagement perception. As a result of the experiment, HN alone did not show a facilitating learning effect, and images and roles improved not only the facilitating learning effect but also other user experience factors. When HN factors were designed in combination with image and role factors, they were effective in overall user experience effects such as facilitating learning, credibility, and engagement.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.47-56
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to test the effect of pedagogical agent realism and expertise on persona effect. There were two perspectives of the pedagogical agents' social interaction. Self-identification hypothesis argues that complexity of agent image is better to increase social interaction. Subjective identification insists that simplified image is more helpful to facilitate social interaction. However, from the cognitive load theory perspective, learners' expertise can be a major factor to determine persona effect. Sixty-eight college students (male=19 and female=49) participated. The independent variables were the degree of realism of pedagogical agent (detailed vs. simplified image) and the expertise (high prior knowledge group vs. low prior knowledge group). The dependant variables were comprehension test and the agent persona instrument (API). There was no significant difference in comprehension test score; however, there were significant interaction effect on the most constructs of API: 1) facilitating of learning, 2) credible, and 3) human-like. The follow-up analysis of simple main effect revealed that high expertise group showed significantly higher perception of the three construct with high realism of pedagogical agent. The results of study show that learners' expertise plays a key role of perception of persona effect.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10c
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• pp.129-131
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• 1998

웹 에이전트는 사용자가 좀 더 손쉽게 웹 상의 정보를 얻을 수 있게 하는 것을 목표로 하는 인터넷 정보 검색 도구이다. 본 논문에서는 개인용 웹 에이전트 시스템에서 적합성 피드백(Relevance Feedback)에 의해 사용자의 취향을 학습하는 방법을 제시하고, 실험을 통하여 제시된 적합성 피드백에 의한 학습 방법이 사용자의 취향을 성공적으로 학습함을 보였다. 적합성 피드백을 혼용할 때와 각각 한가지만 사용할 때로 나누어 실험하였으며, 피드백이 진행되면서 검색결과의 정확도가 변화하는 정도를 관찰하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.319-322
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• 2002

현재 에이전트는 강화 학습 모델을 토대로 사용자의 간섭 없이 사용자 의도를 파악하며 능동적으로 행동하는 기술들이 발달되어 왔다. 하지만 인터넷을 기반으로 한 계획이나 학습 등을 위하여 보다 지적인 능력을 갖춘 에이전트의 기술이 요구된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 DNA 코딩 기법을 이용하여 사용자의 프로파일을 학습하고. 사용자를 분류하는 AUA(Agent for learning Users' Action)를 제안하고자 한다. AUA는 사용자 학습 에이전트로 사용자의 행위를 관찰하고 행위서열을 생성하고 구분함으로써, 사용자의 관심정도를 보다 세밀하게 분석하고 계획할 수 있다. 또한 AUA는 에이전트간에 관계를 설정함으로 사용자에게 보다 나은 정보 검색을 지원할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10c
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• pp.186-188
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 웹에서 사용자의 취향에 부합하는 정보를 지속적으로 수집하여 추천해주는 지능적인 개인용 웹 정보 수집 에이전트의 구현에 대하여 기술한다. 본 논문에서 구현한 에이전트 시스템은 자바언어로 구현되었으며, 인터넷에서 페이지를 모아오는 수집 단계, HTML 문서 색인 단계, 필터링 단계, 사용자가 모니터링 단계, 학습 단계 등 다섯 단계로 구성되어 있다. 웹 페이지는 기존의 검색 엔진으로부터 수집하도록 하였으며, 사용자의 관심에 부합되는 웹 페이지들을 추천하고, 추천된 페이지들에 대한 사용자의 행동을 모니터링하여 사용자의 취향을 학습함으로써 사용자 프로파일을 재구성한다. 본 웹 에이전트 시스템은 암시적인 피드백에 의한 학습을 수행하고 백그라운드에서 동작함으로써 사용자에게 기존의 검색 작업에 따른 시간과 수고를 덜어 주었다.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.11-22
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• 2022

Recently, research and development using various Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are being conducted in the field of education. Among the AI in Education (AIEd), conversational agents are not limited by time and space, and can learn more effectively by combining them with various AI technologies such as voice recognition and translation. This paper conducted a trend analysis on platforms that have a large number of users and used conversational agents for English learning among commercialized application. Currently commercialized educational platforms using conversational agent through trend analysis has several limitations and problems. To analyze specific problems and limitations, a comparative experiment was conducted with the latest pre-trained large-capacity dialogue model. Sensibleness and Specificity Average (SSA) human evaluation was conducted to evaluate conversational human-likeness. Based on the experiment, this paper propose the need for trained with large-capacity parameters dialogue models, educational data, and information retrieval functions for effective English conversation learning.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.1222-1225
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• 2011

개인화된 IT 서비스의 트렌드는 학습자를 위한 튜터링 시스템에도 학습자의 능력과 수요를 고려한 개인화된 서비스를 요구하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 지능형 튜터링 시스템을 위해 사용자 프로파일 에이전트(UPA, User Profile Agent) 모델을 제안한다. UPA는 프로세스, 메타데이터, 사용자 인터페이스로 구성되어 있으며, 사용자의 기본 정보와 학력 및 경력 정보, 학습 영역 지식, 개인 능력 측정 정보를 메타데이터에 기반으로 저장한다. 저장된 사용자 프로파일 정보는 에이전트의 프로세스에 의해 가공되어 학습자에게 유용한 정보를 제공할 수 있도록 기여할 수 있다. 향후 본 논문의 모형 설계를 기반으로 이러닝 기술 환경의 변화를 반영한 지능화된 지능형 튜터링 시스템 개발에 기여할 수 있도록 연구 발전시키는 것을 목표로 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.840-845
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• 2005

Intelligent agents to learn users' tendency have learn uscrs' tendency by sufficient users information and training time. When the intelligent agents is used in ubiquitous environment, users must wait for intelligent agents to learn, so user may be can't get proper services. In this paper we proposed an intelligent P2P mobile agent system that can learn users' tendency in real-time by sharing users' resource. The system shared users contexts on four places and made feel groups which was composed of similar users. When users' service which had the highest correlation coefficient in the peer groups was suggested, users were satisfied over $80\%$.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.55-64
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to identify how realism of pedagogical agent can have impacts on persona effect and cognitive load factors. Eighty-two college students participated, and the independent variables of this study were the degree of image details and presence of gesture. The degree of image details were picture, illustration, and line-drawing. The $3{\times}2$ factorial design was applied. There was a significant interaction effect on the engaging of agent persona instrument. When the learners were under the condition of line-drawing agent without gesture, they showed the highest score on engaging of the agent persona instrument. Regarding the cognitive load factors, when learners under the condition of line-drawing showed the highest score of self-evaluation.