Workshop on motivation and affect in educational software

 

Introduction

Call for papers

Submission

Committees

 

Themes

We invite papers, which present either finished, or work in progress or theoretical positions in the following areas:

  • Affective/motivational modelling.
  • Affective/motivational diagnosis.
  • Relevant aspects of motivation and affect in learning.
  • Strategies for motivational and affective reaction,
  • Integrative models of cognition, motivation, and affect.
  • Personal traits, motivation, and affect.
  • Learning styles, learning domains and learning contexts.
  • Learning goals, motivation, and affect.
  • Influences of dialogues in affective computing.
  • Use of agents as affective companions.
  • Interface design for affective interactions.

The workshop will be focused on exploring the following questions: 

  • Which emotions might be useful to model (e.g. basic affective reactions such as like/dislike; specific emotions such as frustration, happiness, anger; moods; attitudes)?
  • How do individual traits influence the learner’s motivational and affective state?
  • How are motivation and emotional intelligence related?
  • How do cognitive aspects affect the learner’s emotional intelligence and vice versa?
  • Is it important and feasible to standardise cognitive and emotive terms (cognition/meta-cognition, emotion/meta-emotion)?
  • How do different learning contexts –e.g. individual, collaborative- affect the student’s emotions (and vice versa)?
  • Does emotional intelligence mature with age?
  • How are emotions affected according to the learning domain?
  • What are the most appropriate ways to assess motivation and affect?