Chatbots hold the promise of revolutionizing education by engaging learners, personalizing
learning activities, supporting educators, and develo** deep insight into learners' …

Fully automated mental health smartphone apps show strong promise in increasing access
to psychological support. Therefore, it is crucial to understand how to make these apps …

In this book, the author examines the ethical implications of Artificial Intelligence systems as
they integrate and replace traditional social structures in new sociocognitive-technological …

Background Conversational agents (CAs), also known as chatbots, are digital dialog
systems that enable people to have a text-based, speech-based, or nonverbal conversation …

Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) are gaining interest to elicit user engagement and
stimulate actual use of eHealth applications. In this literature review, we identify the …

Pedagogical agents, characters that guide through multimedia learning environments,
recently gained increasing interest. A review was published by Clarebout, Elen, Johnson …

Virtual assistants are increasingly common on commercial websites. In view of the benefits
they offer to businesses for improving navigation and interaction with the consumers …

Teaching and learning are highly social activities. Seminal psychologists such as Vygotsky,
Piaget, and Bandura have theorized that social interaction is a key mechanism in the …

Background Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) are computer-generated animated
humanlike characters that interact with users through verbal and nonverbal behavioral cues …

Pedagogical agents–lifelike characters that guide users through multimedia learning
environments–are intended to facilitate the learning process. According to social agency …