Interacting with educational chatbots: A systematic review

MA Kuhail, N Alturki, S Alramlawi, K Alhejori - Education and Information …, 2023 - Springer
Chatbots hold the promise of revolutionizing education by engaging learners, personalizing
learning activities, supporting educators, and develo** deep insight into learners' …

The effect of chatbots on learning: a meta-analysis of empirical research

E Alemdag - Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This meta-analysis aimed to comprehensively review empirical studies on the effect of
chatbots on learning and quantitatively synthesize their findings to produce an overall effect …

Artificial intelligence (AI) student assistants in the classroom: Designing chatbots to support student success

Y Chen, S Jensen, LJ Albert, S Gupta, T Lee - Information Systems …, 2023 - Springer
In higher education, low teacher-student ratios can make it difficult for students to receive
immediate and interactive help. Chatbots, increasingly used in various scenarios such as …

Sara, the lecturer: Improving learning in online education with a scaffolding-based conversational agent

R Winkler, S Hobert, A Salovaara, M Söllner… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Enrollment in online courses has sharply increased in higher education. Although online
education can be scaled to large audiences, the lack of interaction between educators and …

The power of bots: Characterizing and understanding bots in oss projects

M Wessel, BM De Souza, I Steinmacher… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Leveraging the pull request model of social coding platforms, Open Source Software (OSS)
integrators review developers' contributions, checking aspects like license, code quality, and …

A ground-truth dataset and classification model for detecting bots in GitHub issue and PR comments

M Golzadeh, A Decan, D Legay, T Mens - Journal of Systems and Software, 2021 - Elsevier
Bots are frequently used in Github repositories to automate repetitive activities that are part
of the distributed software development process. They communicate with human actors …

Zhorai: Designing a conversational agent for children to explore machine learning concepts

P Lin, J Van Brummelen, G Lukin, R Williams… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - ojs.aaai.org
Understanding how machines learn is critical for children to develop useful mental models
for exploring artificial intelligence (AI) and smart devices that they now frequently interact …

Detecting and characterizing bots that commit code

T Dey, S Mousavi, E Ponce, T Fry, B Vasilescu… - Proceedings of the 17th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Background: Some developer activity traditionally performed manually, such as making
code commits, opening, managing, or closing issues is increasingly subject to automation in …

[HTML][HTML] Conversation-based assessment: A novel approach to boosting test-taking effort in digital formative assessment

SN Yildirim-Erbasli, O Bulut - Computers and Education: Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
Conversational agents such as chatbots have recently gained a lot of traction in various
industries, including education, marketing, and healthcare. In K–12 and higher education …

Conversational agents: Theory and applications

M Wahde, M Virgolin - … Volume 2: Deep Learning, Intelligent Control …, 2022 - World Scientific
In this chapter, we provide a review of conversational agents (CAs), discussing chatbots,
intended for casual conversation with a user, as well as task-oriented agents that generally …