Preface


Emotions and affect play an important role in learning. There are indications that
meta-affect (i.e., knowledge about self-affect) also plays a role. There have been vari-
ous attempts to take them into account both during the design and during the deploy-
ment of AIED systems. The evidence for the consequential impact on learning is be-
ginning to strengthen, but the field has been mostly focused on addressing the com-
plexities of affective and emotional recognition and very little on how to intervene.
This has largely slowed down progress in this area.

Research is needed to better understand how to respond to what we detect and how to
relate that to the learner’s cognitive and meta-cognitive skills. One goal might be to
design systems capable of recognizing, acknowledging, and responding to learners’
states with the aim of promoting those that are conducive to learning by means of
tutorial tactics, feedback interventions, and interface adaptations that take advantage
of ambient intelligence, among others. Therefore, we need to deepen our knowledge
of how changes in learners’ affective states and associated emotions relate to issues
such as cognition and the learning context.

The papers submitted to the workshop address issues that bridge the existing gap be-
tween previous research with the ever-increasing understanding and data availability.
In particular, these papers report progress on issues relevant to the broad and interdis-
ciplinary AIED and EDM communities. AMADL 2015 workshop raises the oppor-
tunity to bring these two communities together in a lively discussion about the overlap
in the two fields. To achieve this, we explicitly address and target both com- munities,
as indicated by the workshop’s organizers background and the programme committee
set up. This workshop builds on the work done in affect related workshops in past
AIED conferences, such as Modelling and Scaffolding Affective Experiences to Im-
pact Learning in AIED 2007. The format of the workshop is based on presentations,
demonstrations and discussions according to themes addressed by the papers accepted
for the workshop.



  Genaro Rebolledo-Mendez, Manolis Mavrikis, Olga C. Santos, Benedict du Bou-
  lay, Beate Grawemeyer and Rafael Rojano-Cáceres
  Workshop Co-Chairs




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