Facial-Expression-Aware Prompting for Empathetic LLM Tutoring

arXiv:2604.15336v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) enable increasingly capable tutoring-style conversational agents, yet effective tutoring requires sensitivity to learners' affective and cognitive states beyond text alone. Facial expressions provide immediate and practical cues of confusion, frustration, or engagement, but remain underexplored in LLM-driven tutoring. We investigate whether facial-expression-aware signals can improve empathetic tutoring responses thro