DividingQuest: Using Emotive Interface Personas in Educational Software
Sylvie Girard, Hilary M. Johnson · The University of Bath Online Publications Store (The University of Bath) · 2006
Research in educational technology has developed an interest in the capacity of software to be adaptable to children's needs in terms of content, therefore enabling children to acquire learning at their own rate.This paper considers research on open-learner modelling, helping characters and emotions, and describes how this has been applied to the design of the "DividingQuest", a mathematical teaching-aid tutoring system for English year 6 children (10-11 years old).Designed using a participatory-design approach with year 6 children and teachers, the DividingQuest provides the foundation and necessary infrastructure for undertaking studies investigating the impacts of using emotive interface personas as helpers in Open-Learner Modelling tutors, on the appropriation and understanding of the user-model component by children.