An Ontology about Emotion Awareness and Affective Feedback in Elearning

Abstract

In this paper, we propose designing a specific ontology for representing relevant aspects of affective phenomena in e-learning. The ontology is aimed to include the different types of emotions, moods and behaviors that students experience in the e-learning environments, the different types of feedback that teachers can provide to their students and the different effects in students' behavior during the e-learning process. Once the ontology is formalized, it will be used to design a virtual Affective Pedagogical Tutor (APT) based on an Event-Condition-Action rule system to provide affective feedback, aiming to provide a positive change in students' behavior and performance. The ultimate goal is to provide means for effective emotion management in a collaborative learning environment.