The Boston Massacre history experience

The Boston Massacre History Experience is a multimodal interactive virtual-reality application aimed at eighth-grade students. In the application, students students have conversations with seven embodied conversational agents, representing characters such as John Adams, a tea-shop owner, and a redcoat. The experience ends with a conversation with Abigail Adams for students to explain what they learned and a narration by John Adams about events that followed. The application is novel technically because it provides a form of user initiative in conversation and features an unprecedented number of virtual agents, some 486 in all.