Pedagogical Agent | Wei Lai

Figure 3. Visual overview of the entire pedagogical agent (PA) gestures design procedures.

[Research Project] Grounding Pedagogical Intents in Embodied AI Teachers: A Human-Centered Framework for Designing and Evaluating Instructional Gestures

Human-centered framework for designing and evaluating instructional gestures in embodied AI teachers. Published in IJHCI 2026.

Visual realism, perceived humanness, and LLM-generated feedback

[Research Project] Delivering Personalized LLM-Generated Feedback Through Embodied Pedagogical Agents: The Roles of Visual Realism and Perceived Humanness

Under review at Computers & Education.

Word-gesture alignment

[Research Project] Word–Gesture Alignment for Generative Embodied AI Tutors
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Alignment between teachers' gestures and spoken words, toward generative embodied AI tutor design.

[Research Project] When Gestures and Words Synchronize: Exploring A Human Lecturer’s Multimodal Interaction for the Design of Embodied Pedagogical Agents

[Research Project] How Students Perceive Lecturers' Gestures? An Exploration In Gesture-meaning Matching Toward Embodied Pedagogical Agent Design