Towards the Development of a Reading Comprehension Conversational Agent for Children applying User- Centered Design Techniques for Teachers and Students
Silvia Tamayo, Diana Pérez-Marín, Juan Carlos · 2014
Abstract. Pedagogic Conversational Agents aim to support the learning process by providing a highly personalized environment with dialogues adapted to each student. We believe that a Reading Comprehension Conversational Agent able to talk to each student to find out up to which point they have understood the Maths problems could be useful to help them solving the problems. However, given the lack of such kind of agents, it should be studied how they can be designed and developed. In this paper, our focus is to present the procedure of development of a Reading Comprehension Agent according to the principles of User-Centered Design, i.e. taking into account the opinion and preferences of both teachers and students since the beginning of the project. A qualitative study wih 2 teachers and 20 students is being carried out with preliminary satisfactory results.