This website is the home page of the pedagogical agents systems assessment group at the University of South Florida. This group is no longer meeting, but these pages are offered to interested parties.

* These pages require that you have Microsoft's Agent technology loaded on your machine. This Microsoft technology works with Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP.

XP users may have some components already installed. But to insure that you have everything click the link below and install this free shareware program.

Install this first: Speak 1.8.84
 

MS Agents won't work with Netscape.

AERA 2003

AECT 2003

Other Important Agent Products

MSAgent in PowerPoint

Veepers - Pulse 3D

Haptek - People Puddy

Poser - Curious Labs

Agent People and Papers:

Pedagogical Agents - A Primer

Intelligent Agents as Cognitive Tools for Education - Baylor

Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload - Pattie Maes

Is it an Agent, or just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents
- Franklin and Graesser

Agent Links:

The Agent Ring - http://www.msagentring.org/

An Agents "how to" - http://www.microsoft.com/mind/0499/agent/agent.asp

Agent 101 - http://agents.umbc.edu/introduction/

From Poser to Agent -
http://www.psyc.memphis.edu/trg/sizzle/agents/poser-agent.html

Clifford Nass - Stanford University