Education through Characters with emotional-Intelligence and Roleplaying Capabilities that Uunderstand Social interaction

eCIRCUS has ended in 2008. During its lifetime, it has developed a new approach in the use of ICT to support social and emotional learning within Personal and Social Education (PSE).
This was achieved through virtual role-play with synthetic characters that establish credible and empathic relations with the learners. This project has developed novel conceptual models and innovative technology to support learning through role-play and affective engagement for Personal and Social Education (PSE) involving complex social situations. It has delivered technology through a VLE for emotional and social learning, developed through two showcases:

• one on anti-bullying education
• one on intercultural empathy.

Consortium:

• Universität Bamberg (Germany)
• Universität Würzburg (Germany)
• Universität Augsburg (Germany)
• Heriot-Watt University (UK)
• University of Hertfordshire (UK)
• University of Sunderland (UK)
• INESC-ID (Portugal)
• Interagens(Italy)