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Automated Tutoring in Interactive Environments: A Task Centered Approach
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.
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- Academic Units
- Computer Science
- Publisher
- Department of Computer Science, Columbia University
- Series
- Columbia University Computer Science Technical Reports, CUCS-392-88
- Published Here
- December 21, 2011