A System for Concerned Teaching of Musical Aural Skills

Abstract

We present teaching concerns , a domain-independent mechanism for controlling the content and form of automated teaching interactions. Concerns represent commonsense teaching requirements such as challenging a student. Concerns have been implemented in Tapper, a new system for musical ear training. We describe and give real examples of concerns in action within Tapper. We claim that this approach produces sensible and explicable individualised interactions within a loosely structured curriculum