Education / Explore
Education / Explore
Conversations with People and Ideas
Meet Socrates and other figures from history, philosophy, literature, science, and art through direct dialogue, grounded in the sources.
01 / The Solution
A student asks a historical figure a question and gets an answer that leads to another question. Conversation lets learners explore ideas, contexts, and viewpoints, as long as nobody mistakes a digital character for a historical source.
Conversations with People and Ideas brings conversational avatars into the classroom, built from selected texts. Centro Studi Logos curates and controls the secure knowledge base; teachers and institutions agree on objectives and activities. Students ask questions in natural language, compare answers, examine the reasoning behind a position, and are sent back to the texts. The character does not quote the sources: it knows them, and plays its part.
Delivered online, in the classroom, or in immersive rooms; on smartphones, desktops, totems, and projected walls. Figure, source corpus, language, learners’ age, objectives, and educator mediation are set with you; answers and knowledge-base boundaries are reviewed before use.
02 / How It Works
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Choose the sources
Define the figure, the period, the texts, and the questions within the scope of the encounter. The knowledge base is built from those sources and reviewed before use.
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Enter the dialogue
Students ask questions in natural language, compare responses, and examine the reasoning behind a position. The character answers in the student’s language.
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Return to the texts
Teachers guide source checking, separate reconstruction from documentation, and invite new hypotheses. Four things to observe: quality of questions, connection between answer and source, comparison of perspectives, awareness of the limits of reconstruction.
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Socrates at the Festival del Classico
The Socrates avatar developed at e-REAL Labs was presented at Politecnico di Torino during the Festival del Classico: the audience spoke directly with the philosopher, whose questions led them to clarify ideas, state assumptions, and consider alternatives.