Mentor-Pal: Growing STEM Pipelines with Personalized Dialogs with Virtual STEM Professionals

Abstract

The goal of this effort is to improve pre-college students' understanding and interest in Navy-relevant STEM careers, by building a tablet-based app that emulates one-on-one conversations with STEM professionals, so that each student can participate in a natural (voice-input) conversation with virtual humans whose answers are drawn from interviews with areal-life STEM professionals. An intelligent guide (Pal) will coordinate conversations with these virtual characters, helping students learn about STEM fields, career experiences, and job tasks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 30, 2019
Accession Number
AD1083261

Entities

People

  • Benjamin D Nye

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Human Behavior
  • Information Systems
  • Language
  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Languages
  • Neural Networks
  • Personality
  • Pipelines
  • Prototypes
  • Simulations
  • Students
  • Systems Engineering
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • Research Science/Academic Research