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Using Virtual Agents and Interactive Media to Create an ElectronixTutor for the Office of Naval Research

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2016)

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The focus of ElectronixTutor is to build an intelligent tutoring system technology for Navy-relevant applications in training. The goal is to have an ITS for Apprentice Technician Training (ATT) courses in electronics for naval trainees who have completed boot camp and are in the process of A-school training under the Navy Educational Training Command and to supplement the human instruction with this advanced learning environment that can help sailors achieve the instructional objective.

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ElectronixTutor is funded by the Office of Naval Research (Contract N00014-16-C-3027). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of ONR.

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  1. Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis, 365 Innovation Drive, Memphis, TN, 38152, USA

    Whitney O. Baer, Qinyu Cheng, Cadarrius McGlown, Yan Gong, Zhiqiang Cai & Arthur C. Graesser

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Baer, W.O., Cheng, Q., McGlown, C., Gong, Y., Cai, Z., Graesser, A.C. (2016). Using Virtual Agents and Interactive Media to Create an ElectronixTutor for the Office of Naval Research. In: Traum, D., Swartout, W., Khooshabeh, P., Kopp, S., Scherer, S., Leuski, A. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10011. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47665-0_66

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