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Indeed, prior studies have provided the conceptual and operational aspects of pedagogical agent enthusiasm [10 12]; however, since there were no comparisons made between enthusiastic agents and control agents in these studies, therefore the effects of agent enthusiasm on emotion, motivation, and cognition are not clearly understood.
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Additionally, the enthusiastic agent provided enthusiastic remarks such as "I love programming" and "this is an interesting topic".
Similarly, learners in enthusiastic agent condition gave significantly higher ratings for agent perceptions than did learners in neutral agent condition.
Hence, the hypothesis that enthusiastic agent can distract learning by imposing extraneous cognitive load was not supported in our study.
There were also no indications of emotional and perception discomforts experienced by learners who interacted with the enthusiastic agent.
Additionally, exaggerated behavioural cues by an enthusiastic agent may also elicit negative emotional responses in learners [15].
In the context of our study, learner's intrinsic motivation was significantly enhanced under the presence of an enthusiastic agent.
Moreover, an enthusiastic agent may automatically increase its social appeal, which in turn seduce learners away from learning materials.
Table 2 Means and standard deviations for PAS scores in enthusiastic and neutral agent conditions PAS 1 PAS 2 PAS 3 Average PAS M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) Enthusiastic agent 34.5 (9.8) 34.1 (10.3) 34.8 (11.6) 34.5 (9.9) Neutral agent 31.6 (10.54 27.5 (10.3) 26.9 (11.9) 28.6 (10.54) Fig. 3 PAS scores across intervals in enthusiastic agent and neutral conditions.
To provide clarification on this issue, we compared the effects of two pedagogical agent personas, i.e., an enthusiastic agent and a neutral agent.
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