论文标题
用于培养好奇心驱动的儿童学习的对话代理
Conversational agents for fostering curiosity-driven learning in children
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论文摘要
好奇心是有利于儿童独立学习和个性化学习的重要因素。研究表明，这也是可以通过培训特定的元认知技能和信息搜索行为来培养的能力。从这个角度来看，我们开发了一种对话剂，可以帮助孩子产生好奇心驱动的问题，并鼓励他们用于领导自主探索并获得新知识的使用。这项研究是与51名小学生进行的，他们与中性药物或激励剂互动，通过提供特定的语义提示来帮助好奇心驱动的质疑。结果表明，激励剂产生的问题的数量和质量显着增加。这种相互作用还导致了更长的探索和更强的学习进步。总之，我们的结果表明，我们的代理商能够培训儿童与好奇心相关的元认知技能的越多，他们就能保持信息搜索行为的越多，并且他们可能获得的新知识越多。
Curiosity is an important factor that favors independent and individualized learning in children. Research suggests that it is also a competence that can be fostered by training specific metacognitive skills and information-searching behaviors. In this light, we develop a conversational agent that helps children generate curiosity-driven questions, and encourages their use to lead autonomous explorations and gain new knowledge. The study was conducted with 51 primary school students who interacted with either a neutral agent or an incentive agent that helped curiosity-driven questioning by offering specific semantic cues. Results showed a significant increase in the number and the quality of the questions generated with the incentive agent. This interaction also resulted in longer explorations and stronger learning progress. Together, our results suggest that the more our agent is able to train children's curiosity-related metacognitive skills, the better they can maintain their information-searching behaviors and the more new knowledge they are likely to acquire.
