This article gives an overview of current research on animated pedagogical agents at the Center for Advanced Research in Technology for Education (CARTE) at the University of Southern California/Information Sciences Institute. Animated pedagogical agents, nicknamed guidebots, interact with learners to help keep learning activities on track. They combine the pedagogical expertise of intelligent tutoring systems with the interpersonal interaction capabilities of embodied conversational characters. They can support the acquisition of team skills as well as skills performed alone by individuals. At CARTE, we have been developing guidebots that help learners acquire a variety of problem-solving skills in virtual worlds, in multimedia environments, and on the web.

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They express both thoughts and California (USC)/Information Sciences Institute emotions; emotional expression is important to (ISI) is to develop new technologies that portray characteristics of enthusiasm and empathy promote effective learning and increase learner that are important for human teachers. These technologies are intended They are knowledgeable about the subject matter to result in interactive learning materials that being learned, of pedagogical strategies, and support the learning process and that complement also have knowledge about how to find and and enhance existing technologies relevant obtain relevant knowledge from available to learning such as the World Wide Web. Our work draws significant inspiration from Figure 1 shows one of the guidebots that we human learning and teaching. We piece of equipment called a high-pressure air seek a better understanding of the characteristics compressor aboard United States Navy ships. As learners view instructional materials, guidebots can provide useful commentary on these materials.