Paper ID
2821
Paper Type
short
Description
Despite a growing body of research about the design and use of Smart Personal Assistants like Amazon’s Alexa, little is known about their ability to be learning tutors. New emerging ecosystems empower educators to develop their own agents without deep technical knowledge. The objective of our study is to find and validate a general set of design principles that educators can use to design their own agents. Using a design science research approach, we present requirements from students and educators as well as IS and education theory. Next, we formulate design principles and evaluate them with a focus group before we instantiate our artifact in an everyday learning environment. The findings of this short paper indicate that the design principles and corresponding artifact are able to significantly improve learning outcomes. The completed work aims to develop a nascent design theory for designing Smart Personal Assistants as learning tutors.
Recommended Citation
Winkler, Rainer and Roos, Julian, "Bringing AI into the Classroom: Designing Smart Personal Assistants as Learning Tutors" (2019). ICIS 2019 Proceedings. 10.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2019/learning_environ/learning_environ/10
Bringing AI into the Classroom: Designing Smart Personal Assistants as Learning Tutors
Despite a growing body of research about the design and use of Smart Personal Assistants like Amazon’s Alexa, little is known about their ability to be learning tutors. New emerging ecosystems empower educators to develop their own agents without deep technical knowledge. The objective of our study is to find and validate a general set of design principles that educators can use to design their own agents. Using a design science research approach, we present requirements from students and educators as well as IS and education theory. Next, we formulate design principles and evaluate them with a focus group before we instantiate our artifact in an everyday learning environment. The findings of this short paper indicate that the design principles and corresponding artifact are able to significantly improve learning outcomes. The completed work aims to develop a nascent design theory for designing Smart Personal Assistants as learning tutors.