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Computer Science @ Rochester
Monday, November 18, 2002
11:00 AM
CSB 209
James Lester
North Carolina State University
Characters, Explanation, and Story: Intelligent Media Systems and Narrative Generation for Knowledge-Based Learning Environments
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Rapid advances in media technologies have created significant opportunities for a new generation of knowledge-based learning environments. By providing users with interactive lifelike pedagogical agents and rich, self-explaining 3D worlds, learning environments of the future hold much promise for bringing about profound changes in the way that we educate students. For the past several years, we have been engaged in a broad-based effort to develop the foundational technologies that exploit AI to support these next-generation learning environments. In this talk we describe the core technologies addressed so far and illustrate their behavior in several systems developed in our lab. These include lifelike pedagogical agents, 3D learning environments, and multimodal explanation generators. We conclude with a discussion of recent work on narrative generation.