Interacting, Learning & Adapting [Editor's Column]

Introduction: Editors’ Introduction to Interacting with Presence

This volume arose from a longstanding conviction that our subjective experience of information technology is profoundly affected by the extent to which we feel ourselves to be really present in the mediated worlds that the technology makes available to us. ‘Presence’ is just this “feeling of being inside the mediated world”. It is a crucial and increasingly necessary element in both design and ...

Guest Editors’ Column Reading Sideways: Middlebrow into Modernism

Adapting Reinforcement Learning to Tetris

This paper discusses the application of reinforcement learning to Tetris. Tetris and reinforcement learning are both introduced and defined, and relevent research is discussed. An agent based on existing research is implemented and investigated. A reduced representation of the Tetris state space is then developed, and several new agents are implemented around this state space. The implemented a...

Multimedia Technology for E-Learning Guest Editors:

Editors note

EDITOR’S NOTE Geopersia is published biannually by the College of Science, University of Tehran, Iran. The College of Science published “Journal of Science”, which covered all fields of basic science, from 1968 to 2010. It was then decided that the College’s journals should be more specialized, and hence publication of Geopersia was launched. Geopersia aims to publish peer-reviewed original...