Supporting a MOOC through a Conversational Agent. Design of a First Prototype

摘要

This paper presents an initial design of a conversational agent for educational purposes built for Google Assistant and its first prototype. Recent studies suggest that people will get more and more attached to voice assistant because they can easily use technology without being forced to learn it. Speech recognition might facilitate a more efficient work environment without being overly rigid and overly domineering. Modern frameworks allow harnessing natural language understanding as well a machine learning tools, thereby making it easy to build conversational agents. In this paper, we present first design decisions and a prototype for building an agent for learning Java that complements a MOOC for programming with Java.