Designing Distributed Learning Environments with Intelligent Software Agents discusses a possible solution to this problem. Using agents as an abstraction tool or a metaphor for the design and construction of distance-learning systems provides novel possibilities in delivering user-focused elearning content. Furthermore, the book presents the agent-oriented approach as a way to address the comp...

Coordination mechanisms need the proper support if they are to function within large-scale, heterogeneous multi-agent systems. This paper presents a life cycle model for mobile agents in which a number of different states and transitions are defined. An agent’s state can be used to provide coordination mechanisms with useful status information, enabling these mechanisms to deal with realistic s...

Available resources can often be limited with regard to the number of demands. In this paper we propose an approach for solving this problem which consists of using the mechanisms of multi-item auctions for allocating the resources to a set of software agents. We consider the resource problem as a market in which there are vendor agents and buyer agents trading on items representing the resourc...

This paper describes a series of efforts in building and conceptualizing software agents for distributed collaborative learning. The agents are referred to as pedagogical agents. We have integrated pedagogical agents within two collaborative environments, TeamWave Workplace and Future Learning Environment. The role of agents in these environments differs from past work on software agents in the...

Emerging technologies, such as intelligent agents, avatars, and distributed environments offer new opportunities for the improvement of business games used for training decision makers. The advent of these technologies also creates new challenges to game developers and training consultants. We investigate these opportunities and offer suggestions on how to better address technical and pedagogic...

The three-dimensional models used to embody intelligent agents are becoming increasingly realistic. We discuss two studies in which we embodied intelligently behaving virtual agents with photographically realistic models of human subjects' heads and faces. We then immersed those subjects with agents embodied with their virtual selves and compared their interactions and nonverbal behaviors to se...

This paper presents an overview of the eld of Intelligent Products. As Intelligent Products have many facets, this paper is mainly focused on the concept behind Intelligent Products, the technical foundations, and the achievable practical goals of Intelligent Products. A novel classi cation of Intelligent Products is introduced, which distinguishes between three orthogonal dimensions. Furthermo...

A virtual agent that explains research informed consent documents to study volunteers is described, along with a series of development efforts and evaluation studies. A study of nurse administration of informed consent finds that human explanations follow the structure of the document, and that much of information provided verbally is not contained in the document at all. A study of pedagogical...

This experiment was conducted to compare the effects of peer tutoring with an intelligent teachable agent (TA), the Korea university intelligent agent (KORI), on students’ interest and task performance according to their level of self-efficacy. The results showed a significant interaction effect on interest between the peer tutoring/KORI and the level of self-efficacy. The high selfefficacious ...

This paper describes ULAP, a framework for scrutable modeling and prediction of people’s locations and activities, based upon a diverse collection of sensors, with varying reliability. It supports transformation and aggregation of sensor data, using this to build individual user models of location and activity. We propose an approach to indicate the certainty of predictions about users based up...