So Heffernan, along with several researchers at W.P.I. and other institutions, is working on an emotion-sensitive tutor: a computer program that can recognize and respond to students' moods.
[16] proposes using a multimodal approach, i.e., using conversational cues, body posture, and facial features, to determine when learners are "confused", "bored" or "frustrated" during tutoring sessions with an affect-sensitive intelligent tutor.
Many offshore call centers are becoming more sensitive to the need to tutor workers in American customs as a crucial part of their training.
We could have better epidemiology, track infectious diseases in real time, have more effective and responsive neighbourhood policing, provide online tutoring that is sensitive to the needs of each individual student, and so on.
If the tutors are less sensitive to objectives other than biological ones, then their students will be less motivated to learn and, like their educators, will be equally insensitive to Public Health topics.
The tutorials were graded in terms of level of difficulty beginning with general discussion of sensitive interviewing styles, role playing with tutors, followed by live interviews with volunteer inpatients from the psychiatric unit.
In addition to this theoretical input, tutors were given an introduction to culturally sensitive behaviour [ 40] and the provision of structured and motivating feedback [ 43].
Songbirds are good candidates for trying to unravel this mystery: like humans, they are sensitive to social influences for vocal learning and they are active in their choice of tutor [e.g. 9].
As we put it then, At first thought it might seem that the key requirement is a highly intelligent tutoring system, capable of performing sophisticated diagnoses of students' learning strategies, providing sensitive coaching and instruction.
