Components of digital assistants in higher education environments

In a current research project at a German university, a digital study assistant based on conversational AI is being developed. In this research project, four main application areas of the digital assistant are planned: communicator, for answering questions, conversation, and mentoring; a planner, for performing time and task management and course planning; a motivator, for actively managing learning success with gamification elements; and an analyzer, for processing necessary information about the student's study progress. In order to identify different application examples and possibilities for these four areas of the digital study assistant, the aim of this paper is to conduct a literature review. In addition to application examples and possibilities, implementation goals and the improvement of study results through such applications were researched.