Setting Cyber-Instructors in Cyberspace

Abstract

Creating cyber-instructors or virtual humans in cyberspace capable of maintaining conversation with learners as well as offering different educational services may become an excellent teaching tool implementing personal mentoring in Cyber worlds. In this paper, a framework of the cyber-instructor based on the commonly available software tools is proposed. The components of the framework are replaceable and can be easily tuned to particular educational needs and technical implementations. Several implementations of the cyber-instructor with various looks and feels of the HCI have been studied and implemented such as 3D talking avatar, web chat with multimedia components and chat engine communication.