Emotions, Technology, Design, and Learning

Emotions, Technology, Design, and Learning provides an update to the topic of emotional responses and how technology can alter what is being learned and how the content is learned.

The design of that technology is inherently linked to those emotional responses. This text addresses emotional design and pedagogical agents, and the emotions they generate. Topics include design features such as emoticons, speech recognition, virtual avatars, robotics, and adaptive computer technologies, all as relating to the emotional responses from virtual learning.

• Addresses the emotional design specific to agent-based learning environments
• Discusses the use of emoticons in online learning, providing an historical overview of animated pedagogical agents
• Includes evidence-based insights on how to properly use agents in virtual learning environments
• Focuses on the development of a proper architecture to be able to have and express emotions
• Reviews the literature in the field of advanced agent-based learning environments
• Explores how educational robotic activities can divert students’ emotions from internal to external

Dr. Sharon Tettegah is Director for the Center for Black Studies Research at UC Santa Barbara. Prior to joining UCSB, she was the Program Chair of Digital Environments for Learning, Teaching and Agency in the College of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. She has held an appointment in Cognitive Neuroscience in Bio-Intelligence at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Her research centers on the intersection of STEM leaning, emotions, equity, and social justice. Dr. Tettegah has authored several books, including series volumes for Elsevier’s Emotions and Technology book series.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the TUM School of Education, Department of Empirical Educational Research (Since 10/2012). Research interests: Communication between teachers and parents, communication training of (becoming) teachers, use and development of video cases in teacher education, negative knowledge and learning from errors at work, competence development in work processes.