First Evaluational Results in the Development of Training by Animated Pedagogical Agents (TAPA)

Training with Animated Pedagogical Agents is a promising new style of training especially fore children with disabilities. In this paper, we present the evaluation results of our training agent system called TAPA, which has a realistic moving body and body language features. TAPA is web based training system. TAPA allows children to access the training sources over the Internet through a user-friendly multimodal interface in a humanlike communication.