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RMT (Research Methods Tutor) is a dialog-based tutoring system that has a dual role. Its modular architecture enables the interchange and evaluation of different tools and techniques for improving tutoring. In addition to its research goals, the system is intended to be integrated as a regular component of a term-long Research Methods in Psychology course. Despite the significant technical challenges, this may help reduce our knowledge gap about how such systems can help students with long-term use. In this paper, we describe the RMT architecture and give the results of an initial experiment that compared RMT’s animated agent “talking head” with a text-only version of the system.
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Wiemer-Hastings, P., Allbritton, D., Arnott, E. (2004). RMT: A Dialog-Based Research Methods Tutor With or Without a Head. In: Lester, J.C., Vicari, R.M., Paraguaçu, F. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3220. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30139-4_58
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