Participative Master Plan: playing and learning to live

Live Action Role-Playing Games

Live action role-playing games share a range of characteristics with massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs). Because these games have existed for more than 20 years, players of these games have a substantial amount of experience in handling issues pertinent to MMOGs. Survey and review of live action role-playing games, whose participant count can be in the thousands, reveal that features su...

Enhanced Reality Live Role Playing

Live role-playing is a form of improvisational theatre played for the experience of the performers and without an audience. These games form a challenging application domain for ubiquitous technology. We discuss the design options for enhanced reality live role-playing and the role of technology in live role-playing games.

A K-12 Master Plan

Effects of e-learning, lectures, and role playing on nursing

  Background :Nursing education can maintain its dynamic quality when it moves toward innovation and modern methods of teaching and learning. Therefore, teachers are required to employ up to date methods in their teaching plans. This study evaluated the effects of e-learning, lectures, and role playing on nursing students’ learning, retention, and satisfaction.   Methods : Sixty nursing student...

Learning to Plan Probabilistically

This paper discusses the learning of probabilistic planning without a priori domain-specific knowledge. Different from existing reinforcement learning algorithms that generate only reactive policies and existing probabilistic planning algorithms that requires a substantial amount of a priori knowledge in order to plan, we devise a two-stage bottom-up learning-to-plan process, in which first rei...