Employing AI Chatbot-Based Tutoring Systems and STEAM 6e Scaffold to Implement Cooperative Learning of Maker Education

Students’ progression relies on teachers' commitment to understanding and acknowledging different ways of learning. Learning technologies have the potential to enhance learning and affective computing, which is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that uses emotion to enhance interactions between humans and robots, is one way to do so. Dr Hao-Chiang Koong Lin, Head of the Department of Information and Learning Technology, National University of Tainan, Taiwan, is seeking to improve the effectiveness of learning technology and he and his team are exploring interrelated topics such as AI chatbot-based affective tutoring system and incorporating alternative reality into learning, collaborating with artists and engineers and Professor Yu-Chuang Tseng. In one project, the team sought to integrate somatosensory interactive visual music creation with maker teaching strategy, which involved the creation of interactive artworks and explored visitors’ interactions with the artworks. They discovered that the artworks created with kinect were most popular and witnessed enhanced playfulness and positive emotions while learning. In another project, Lin and the team are designing an interdisciplinary creative course combining technology and art. This involves creating an emotional learning system based on an AI chatbot and applying affective computing techniques to better understand the emotional responses of learners.