OSCC13 - Activity in Context - Planning to Keep Learners in the Zone
Channel: AvaCon Inc
Date: 2013-09-30

Activity in Context - Planning to Keep Learners 'in the Zone' for Scenario-based Mixed-Initiative Training in Virtual Worlds

This paper explores how to provide support in a training-orientated "I-Zone" augmented by intelligent systems technology - with the aim of providing a virtual space for intelligent scenario-based learning. The approach is to: 1) constrain the world situation and activities possible, 2) select relevant tasks and events , 3) inject events to situation to keep learners 'in the zone', 4) induce appropriate learner 'activity in context'.

Austin Tate is Director of the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute (AIAI) and holds the Personal Chair of Knowledge-Based Systems at the University of Edinburgh. He holds computing and e-Learning degrees and a PhD in Machine Intelligence. His research work is focused on emergency response and involves advanced knowledge and planning technologies, and collaborative systems especially using virtual worlds. He is Coordinator for the Virtual University of Edinburgh (Vue) and runs the Openvue OpenSimulator grid.

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