44 research outputs found
The Self-Concept Of Learning Disabled Students In Two Different Service Delivery Models
Get PDFThis study compared the self-concept of 28 learning disabled students receiving resource room services with 28 learning disabled students receiving itinerant services
The Effects of Social Skills Instruction on the Social Behaviors of Students at Risk for Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
No full textA technique for evaluating the permissible depth of an extended surface flaw in a pressurized vessel
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The Development of an Emotional Response to Writing Measure: the Affective Cognition Writing Survey
No full textSocial agents for learning in virtual environments
No full textSeveral serious games have been proposed to practice communication strategies in formal contexts. Intelligent virtual agents (IVA) can be used to show the player the effects of a conversational move. In this paper we discuss the key role of using social context for the virtual agents in these serious games. Social practices are exploited to bundle social interactions into standard packages and as a basis to model the deliberation processes of IVAs. We describe a social practice oriented IVA architecture used in the implementation of a serious game for the practicing of communication in medical interviews
