Enhancing the effectiveness of spoken dialogue for STEM education
Diane J. Litman · 2013
This talk will discuss the application of speech and language processing to two types of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) dialogue applications: 1) one-on-one physics tutoring, where students engage in dialogues with either a computer or human tutor, and 2) engineering design, where students engage in multi-party dialogue to complete a group project.I will first present results illustrating that relationships exist between student learning and both student affect, as well as lexical/prosodic entrainment between conversational partners.I will then illustrate our use of such findings to build better educational dialogue systems.