Ontological organization of academic emotions toward knowledge description and management about learners mental states

Recently, the research in intelligent educational systems has much interest in exploring data from academic settings to understand learners behavior and mental states. We have been developing IMS (Intelligent Mentoring System) which performs automatic mentoring by using an ITS (Intelligent Tutoring System) to scaffold learning activities and an ontology to provide a specification of learner's models. To provide learner's models in mentoring, the ontology describes qualities and quality values on awareness which are conceptualization of subjective evaluation. To specify relationships among qualities on awareness in academic settings, this study organized academic emotions in the psychological research and proposed their ontological descriptions.