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teaching moment (see figure 2). Restricting the agency in order to preserve the<br />

educational targets is acceptable because the teaching moments themselves are<br />

relaxed by varying the places and characters that can participate in their worlds; this<br />

part is illustrated in the following section. In addition, every teaching moment is able<br />

to provide a different outcome according to the student’s interaction within the<br />

teaching moment.<br />

Storyline<br />

High agency<br />

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Low agency<br />

Storyline<br />

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Storyline<br />

Fig. 2. Representation of student’s agency in the learning environment<br />

5 Kohlberg’s Dilemmas<br />

Interactive Narrative and <strong>Intelligent</strong> <strong>Tutoring</strong> 18<br />

The teaching moments in AEINS are scripted and authored according to general<br />

moral situations. They are a crucial part of the story generation process. They aim to<br />

create new thoughts and/or develop deeper thoughts about some moral situations.<br />

Kohlberg’s moral dilemmas are examples of moral stories; he was interested in how<br />

people would justify their actions if they were put in a similar moral crux [15]. The<br />

idea is to incorporate these dilemmas as the teaching moments which are part of the<br />

story and part of the active characters’ lives. The student is able to interact with these<br />

dilemmas and influence the outcome.<br />

Kohlberg was mainly interested in the reasoning behind the answers to ethical<br />

questions and tried to achieve this through discussions and questions with the<br />

interviewed students. We incorporated the questions Kohlberg used in his interviews<br />

as part of teaching moments to enquire about the student’s reasoning. By monitoring<br />

student’s actions and responses through the story and the different teaching moments<br />

and with a continuous update of the student model, conclusions on the student’s<br />

reasoning can be extracted from the attributes of the student model. For example, we<br />

incorporated one of Kohlberg’s dilemmas in a teaching moment as follows. The<br />

dilemma has been expressed as the story:<br />

“Judy was a twelve-year-old girl. Her mother promised her that she could go to a special<br />

rock concert coming to their town if she saved up from baby-sitting and lunch money to buy<br />

a ticket to the concert. She managed to save up the fifteen dollars the ticket cost plus another<br />

five dollars. But then her mother changed her mind and told Judy that she had to spend the<br />

money on new clothes <strong>for</strong> school. Judy was disappointed and decided to go to the concert<br />

anyway. She bought a ticket and told her mother that she had only been able to save five<br />

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