Workshop on motivation and affect in educational software

Programme

Important dates
Deadline for paper submissions: April 25 (CLOSED)
Paper acceptance notification: May 6
Deadline for camera-ready papers: May 20

 

Introduction

Call for papers

Submission

Committees

 

Motivation and affect (e.g., basic affective reactions such as like/dislike; specific emotions such as frustration, happiness, anger; moods; attitudes) often play an important role in learning situations. There have been various attempts to take them into account both at design time and at run time in AIED systems, though the evidence for the consequential impact on learning is not yet strong.  Much research needs to be carried out in order to better understand this area. In particular, we need to deepen our knowledge of how affect and motivation relate to each other and to cognition, meta-cognition, learning context and teaching strategies/tactics. This workshop is intended bridge the gap existing between previous AIED research, particularly in motivation and meta-cognition, with the ever-increasing research in emotions and other affective components.

Objectives

By bringing together researchers in the area, the workshop will be a forum to discuss different approaches with the aim of enriching our knowledge about how to create effective and affective learning environments. Also, it is expected to be a forum on which to address the appropriateness of defining bridges that could bring about new ways of relating cognitive and affective aspects of learning.  At the end of the workshop we expect to reach agreements on which are the relevant emotions in learning contexts, as well as in the terminology been used so far (e.g. affect, emotion, motivation).