SmartChat – An Intelligent Environment for Collaborative Discussions
Sandra de Albuquerque Siebra, De Melo Queiroz, Ana Emilia, Cibele Da Rosa Christ, Patricia Cabral de Azevedo Restelli Tedesco, De Almeida Barros, Flávia · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2023
Collaborative learning can be motivated via environments that provide communication, and areas for discussion. In such environments, both students and instructors need online support in order to produce useful interactions. In this paper we present SmartChat, an intelligent environment for collaborative discussions. It uses an argumentation model to organise users interactions and it classifies users in pre-defined stereotypes, based on their participation in the discussion. That classification helps the SmartChat's agent society to interfere in the discussion, in order to motivate users participation, and also recommend references or incentivate pair collaboration. SmartChat was developed in Java, using a knowledge base accessed through JEOPS. The initial tests have indicated promising results.