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Publications on Interface agents, virtual humans, avatars:
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2010-present

Baylor, A. L. (2011). Designing motivational agents and avatars.  Educational Technology Research & Development.

Kim, Y.J. & Baylor, A. L. (2011, April). Interface agents as creativity support tools. American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.  

2009

Baylor, A. L. (2009). Promoting motivation with virtual agents and avatars: role of visual presence and appearance.  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364, 3559-3565.

 

Plant, E. A., Baylor A. L., Doerr, C., & Rosenberg-Kima, R.  (2009). Changing Middle-School Students' Attitudes and Performance Regarding Engineering with Computer-based Social Models. Computers and Education, 53(2), 209-215.  

 

Baylor, A. L. & Kim, S. (2009) Designing nonverbal communication for pedagogical agents: When less is more. Computers and Human Behavior, 25, 450-457.

 

2008

Rosenberg-Kima, R., Baylor A. L., Plant, E. A., & Doerr, C. (2008). Interface Agents as Social Models for Female Students: The Effects of Agent Visual Presence and Appearance on Women's Attitudes and Beliefs. Computers in Human Behavior, 24(6), 2741-2756.  

 

Kim, C. & Baylor, A.L. (2008). A Virtual Change Agent: Motivating Pre-service Teachers to Integrate Technology in Their Future Classrooms. Educational Technology & Society, 12(2), 309-321.

 

Baylor, A. L. (2007) Pedagogical Agents as a Social Interface. Educational Technology, 47(1), 11-14. 

 

Kim, Y. & Baylor, A. L. (2007) Pedagogical Agents as Social Models to Influence Learner Attitudes. Educational Technology, 47(1), 23-28.

2007

Kim, Y., Baylor, A. L. & Shen, E. (2007). Pedagogical agents as learning companions: The impact of agent affect and gender. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (JCAL), 23(3), 220-532.  

 

Rosenberg-Kima, R. B., Baylor, A. L., Plant, E. A., Doerr, C. (2007). The importance of interface agent visual presence: Voice alone is less effective in impacting young women’s attitudes toward engineering.  Proceedings of Persuasive 2007, Stanford, California. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4744, (pp. 214–222), Springer.

 

2006

Baylor, A. L., & Rosenberg-Kima, R. B. (2006).  Interface agents to alleviate online frustration. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Learning sciences, (pp.30-36), Bloomington, Indiana: ISLS. 

 

Kim, Y, Hamilton, E., Zheng, J., & Baylor, A. L. (2006). Scaffolding Learner Motivation through a Virtual Peer. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Learning Sciences, (pp. 335–341), Bloomington, Indiana: ISLS.

 

Kim, Y., & Baylor, A. L. (2006). A social-cognitive framework for pedagogical agents as learning companions. Educational Technology Research & Development, 54(6), 569-590. Paper received *Young Scholar Award* for first author, awarded by Association of Educational Communications & Technology (AECT).

 

Kim, Y. & Baylor, A. L. (2006). Pedagogical agents as learning companions: The role of agent competency and type of interaction. Educational Technology Research & Development, 54(3), 223-243.  

2005

Ryu, J. & Baylor, A. L. (2005). The Psychometric Structure of Pedagogical Agent Persona. Technology, Instruction, Cognition & Learning (TICL), 2(4), 291-315.   

 

Baylor, A. L. & Kim, Y. (2005). Simulating instructional roles through pedagogical agents. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 15(1), 95-115.   

 

Baylor, A. L., & Plant, E. A. (2005). Pedagogical agents as social models for engineering: The influence of appearance on female choice. In C-K. Looi, G. McCalla, B. Bredeweg & J. Breuker (Eds.), Artificial intelligence in education: Supporting learning through intelligent and socially informed technology (Vol. 125, pp. 65-72), IOS Press.

 

Baylor, A. L., Warren, D., Park, S., Shen E., & Perez, R. (2005) The impact of frustration-mitigating messages delivered by an interface agent. In C-K. Looi, G. McCalla, B. Bredeweg & J. Breuker (Eds.), Artificial intelligence in education: Supporting learning through intelligent and socially informed technology (Vol. 125, pp. 73-79), IOS Press.

 

Warren, D., Shen E., Park, S., Baylor, A. L. & Perez, R. (2005). Adult Learner Perceptions of Affective Agents: Experimental data and phenomenological observations. In C-K. Looi, G. McCalla, B. Bredeweg & J. Breuker (Eds.), Artificial intelligence in education: Supporting learning through intelligent and socially informed technology (Vol. 125, pp. 944-946), IOS Press.

2004

Baylor, A. L. & Kim, Y. (2004). Pedagogical Agent Design: The Impact of Agent Realism, Gender, Ethnicity, and Instructional Role. In (Eds. J. Lester, et al) Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Volume 3220, (pp. 592-603) Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer.

 

Baylor, A. L., Shen, E. & Warren, D. (2004). Supporting learners with math anxiety: The impact of pedagogical agent emotional and motivational support. Proceedings of Workshop on Social and Emotional Intelligence in Learning Environments at the International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), Maceio, Brazil. (pp. 6-12), Springer.

 

Baylor, A. L. (2004). Designing pedagogical agents to address diversity in learning. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Learning sciences, Los Angeles, California.  (pp. 586-587), ISLS.

2003

Baylor, A. L., & Kim, Y. (2003). The Role of Gender and Ethnicity in Pedagogical Agent Perception. In G. Richards (Ed.), Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003, Phoenix, Arizona. (pp. 1503-1506), Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

 

Baylor, A. L., Shen, E., & Huang, X. (2003). Which Pedagogical Agent do Learners Choose? The Effects of Gender and Ethnicity. In G. Richards (Ed.), Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003, Phoenix, Arizona, (pp. 1507-1510), Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

 

Kim, Y., Baylor, A. L. & Reed, G. (2003). The Impact of Image and Voice with Pedagogical Agents. In G. Richards (Ed.), Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003, Phoenix, Arizona, (pp. 2237-2240), Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

 

Baylor, A. L. & Ebbers, S. (2003).  Evidence that multiple agents facilitate greater learning. In U. Hoppe, M.F. Verdejo, J. Kay (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Education: Shaping the Future of Learning Through Intelligent Technologies (pp.377-379): IOS Press.

 

Baylor, A. L. (2003). The split-persona effect with pedagogical agents. Proceedings of Workshop “Embodied Conversational Characters as Individuals” at the Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Melbourne, Australia.

 

Baylor, A. L., Ryu, J. & Shen, E. (2003). The effects of pedagogical agent voice and animation on learning, motivation and perceived persona. Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Honolulu, Hawaii, (pp. 452-458). Norfolk, VA: AACE.

 

Gussak, D. & Baylor, A. L. (2003).Constructing agents for self-learning: Animated agents as expressive vehicles. Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Honolulu, Hawaii, (pp. 477-478). Norfolk, VA: AACE.

2002

Baylor, A. L. & Chang, S. (2002). Pedagogical agents as scaffolds: The role of feedback timing, number of agents, and adaptive feedback.  Proceedings of 5th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Seattle, WA, ISLS.

 

Baylor, A. L. (October, 2002). Pedagogical agents as scaffolds: The role of feedback timing, number of agents, and adaptive feedback. International Conference of the Learning Sciences. Seattle, WA.

 

Baylor, A. L. (2002) Expanding pre-service teachers' metacognitive awareness of instructional planning through pedagogical agents. Educational Technology Research & Development, 50 (2), 5-22. *Best Research Article of 2002 award from AECT*

 

Baylor, A. L. (2002). Agent-based learning environments for investigating teaching and learning. Journal of Educational Computing Research. 26(3), 249-270.

2001

Baylor, A. L. (2001). The effects of MIMICing instructional theory with MIMIC (Multiple Intelligent Mentors Instructing Collaboratively), an agent-based learning environment. Proceedings of the National Convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. Annual Proceedings of Selected Research and Development Papers, Volumes 1-2 (10 pages). ERIC ED470069 

 

Baylor, A. L. (2001). Cognitive requirements for agent-based learning environments. Proceedings of International Conference of Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), Madison, Wisconsin, (pp. 462-463), IEEE.

 

Baylor, A. L. (2001). Permutations of control: Cognitive considerations for agent-based learning environments. Journal of Interactive Learning Research. 12(4), 403-425.

2000

Baylor, A. L. (2000). Beyond butlers: Intelligent agents as mentors. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 22(4), 373-382.

1999

Baylor, A. L. (1999). Intelligent agents as cognitive tools. Educational Technology, 39(2), 36-40.

1998

Baylor, A. L. & Kozbe, B. (1998). A personal intelligent mentor for promoting metacognition in solving logic word puzzles. Proceedings of Workshop "Current Trends and Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Education" at The Fourth World Congress on Expert Systems, Mexico City, Mexico. (ERIC document ED438791.)