@inproceedings{c656582419df4abf9f7b51ead175aafa,
title = "Nurturing My-Pet: Promoting effort-making learning behavior by animal companions",
abstract = "Virtual character is a significant application on the research field of technology enhanced learning. In this study, a nurturing My-Pet system was proposed to promote learners' effort-making behavior. For performing better in the competition, learners would be evoked to learn for improving the status of their My-Pets. A preliminary experiment was conducted, and the results revealed that participants had a more improved scores during a shorter period of time.",
keywords = "Animal companion, Learning effort, Virtual character",
author = "Chen, {Zhi Hong} and Liao, {Calvin C.Y.} and Chien, {Tzu Chao} and Chan, {Tak Wai}",
year = "2008",
language = "???core.languages.en_GB???",
isbn = "9789868473522",
series = "Proceedings - ICCE 2008: 16th International Conference on Computers in Education",
pages = "27--34",
booktitle = "Proceedings - ICCE 2008",
note = "16th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2008 ; Conference date: 27-10-2008 Through 31-10-2008",
}