SafeMathBot: A Safety-aware Conversational Agent to Support Online Algebra Learning

• In Event: D&D- SafeMathBot: A Safety-aware Conversational Agent to Support Online Algebra Learning

Short Description

Recent educational studies have examined the affordances of conversational agents (CA) powered by artificial intelligence to automatically support students’ participation in discussion forums. However, few studies have paid attention to the safety of CAs. This study aimed to investigate and address the safety challenges of CAs constructed with educational big data (2,097,139 post-reply pairs by 71,918 students) to support learning. Our proposed model can effectively enhance the safety of generated texts while providing comparable support.

Authors

• Presenter: Chenglu Li, University of Florida

• Presenter: Wanli Xing, University of Florida

• Contributor: Walter Leite, University of Florida