This research investigates the interaction between English students learning Chinese in the UK and Chinese students learning English in China via a wiki platform. Activity theory and legitimate peripheral participation theory were employed as a theoretical framework; wiki was embedded as an interactive learning tool. The findings revealed that Chinese native speakers assisted English students l...

In order to claim fully general intelligence in an autonomous agent, the ability to learn is one of the most central capabilities. Classical machine learning techniques have had many significant empirical successes, but large real-world problems that are of interest to generally intelligent agents require learning much faster (with much less training experience) than is currently possible. This...

We introdu e a Supervised Reinfor ement Learning (SRL) algorithm for autonomous learning problems where an agent is required to deal with high dimensional spa es. In our learning algorithm, behavior models learned from a set of examples, are used to dynami ally redu e the set of relevant a tions at ea h state of the environment en ountered by the agent. Su h subsets of a tions are used to guide...

cooperation is the foundation of many protocols in wireless networks. without cooperation, the performance of a network significantly decreases. hence, all nodes in traditional networks are required to cooperate with each other. in this paper, instead of traditional networks, a network of rational and autonomous nodes is considered, which means that each node itself can decide whether to cooper...

various researches know lateral preference of eye and hand pattern as one of the important factors of performing sports skills. this study aimed at investigating the effect of lateral preference of eye and hand pattern on learning basketball free throw skill. from 3000 female students of shahid chamran university of ahvaz, 60 subjects (age range 19-22 yr) were selected purposively as the sample...

Assistant robots are designed to perform specific tasks for the user, but their performance is rarely optimal, hence they are required to adapt to user preferences or new task requirements. In the previous work, the potential of an interactive learning framework based on user intervention and reinforcement learning (RL) was assessed. The framework allowed the user to correct an unfitted segment...

Engaged students tend to show school-committed behaviors (e.g., attend classes, get involved with the learning process), high achievement, and sense of belonging. However, students with disabilities are prone to show a lack of engagement with school due to the specific difficulties they have to handle. In fact, children with disabilities are likely to show poor participation in school when comp...