New Perspectives on Affect and Learning Technologies

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Calvo, Rafael A. (Editor), D'Mello, Sidney K. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Series: Explorations in the Learning Sciences, Instructional Systems and Performance Technologies ; 3
• Subjects: Education.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Artificial intelligence.; Educational technology.; Cognitive psychology.; Educational Technology.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Cognitive Psychology.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

Of all the differences between human beings and computers, emotion is perhaps the most basic: humans have them and use them; machines do not, except with human help. One of the most promising arenas for human/computer intervention has been in the form of educational technologies that respond to the...