Emotional Dialogue in a Virtual Tutor for Educational Software

In this paper, an educational software used to enhance the skills of children in the area of math is presented. This software has a tutor who guides the child in different activities. The tutor exhibits personality traits and emotions in its dialogue to create a sense of immersion in the student and catch his attention towards the game. We adapted an Emotional Extension of the Artificial Intelligence Markup Language, structure here named as EE-AIML.