Análise da interação de crianças com um agente pedagógico afetivo em um jogo digital : contribuições a partir do dialogismo bakhtiniano.

Abstract

The present thesis presents a research focused to the analysis of dialogical relationships produced in interactions of children with the affective pedagogical agent Maga Vitta in the digital game Città. The motivation for the development of this work is the possibility of making the relationship between the agent and the kids in the classroom more natural and more contextualized, checking in what manner this study can contribute to create dialogue mechanisms between the agent and the student aiming digital games in education, in the children’s school context. The present work is also related to the researches committed to the digital game Città, aiming the development and improvement of the educational environment, once it is constantly evolving. From the interaction of children with this digital game, we aim to solve the problem of research that is focused on verifying how these dialogical relationships of children with affective pedagogical agent occur in the game. For validation purposes of research it was implemented the agent, Maga Vitta, which was thought together with the research group of the CIVITAS project, linked to the laboratory of Studies on language, interaction and Cognition of UFRGS, of Education College at the UFRGS, to do the ecological control of the digital city built by children in the game Città. The idea is to make the children able to reflect on their actions in the game environment, operating with the knowledge that they are building on a sustainable and cooperative town, considering ecological and environmental aspects of a city that we wants to put in balance. The target population is children attending to 4th and 5th grades of elementary school, who make part of the CIVITAS project through the development of virtual cities using alternative materials. The results of the experiments have shown that the analysis of dialogic relations on children's interactions and the analysis of data involving issues related to the concepts of Bakhtin, such as production of meanings, utterances and dialogical relations, bring significant contributions to the search area.