Technical reports:
Automated Tutoring in Interactive Environments: A Task Centered Approach
Ursula Wolz; Kathleen McKeown; Gail E. Kaiser
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- Title:
- Automated Tutoring in Interactive Environments: A Task Centered Approach
- Author(s):
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Wolz, Ursula
McKeown, Kathleen
Kaiser, Gail E. - Date:
- 1988
- Type:
- Technical reports
- Department:
- Computer Science
- Permanent URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:12068
- Series:
- Columbia University Computer Science Technical Reports
- Part Number:
- CUCS-392-88
- Publisher:
- Department of Computer Science, Columbia University
- Publisher Location:
- New York
- Abstract:
- Tutoring in interactive computing environments is sometimes more properly understood as consulting. A tutor's implied curriculum may be adaptable to the user's knowledge and experience but still not meet the user's immediate needs -- to get some task done. A consultant however, can dynamically adapt to address the task at hand. We present a user's goal-centered approach to tutoring in interactive environments, and describe how we automate certain tutoring strategies appropriate for consulting behavior. We have implemented our approach in GENIE, a question answering system for the Berkeley Unix Mail system. We focus on the pedagogical strategies employed by GENIE to best meet the user's immediate needs.
- Subject(s):
- Computer science
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