Adapting the design and the use methodology of a Pedagogical Conversational Agent of Secondary Education to Childhood Education

Pedagogic Conversational Agents are interactive educational systems that talk with students about a particular domain assuming the role of teacher, student or colleague. They have been used with good results from the upper areas of education to Primary Education. However, it has not been found examples in the literature of the field on its use in Early Childhood Education. During 2014/2015 several students in Early Childhood Education collaborated with computer scientists to adapt a Pedagogical Conversational Agent to lower domains of education and provided a first methodology draft of use in the classroom that was tested in a case as reported in this article.