The goal of my research is to develop and evaluate longterm declarative memory mechanisms that are effective and efficient across a variety of tasks.

Agents me.y contract some of their tasks to other agents even when they do not share a common goal. An agent may try to contract some of the tasks that it cannot perform by itself, or that may be performed more efficiently by other agents. One self-motivated agent may convince another self-motivated agent to help it with its task, by promises of rewards, even if the agents are not assumed to be...

This paper investigates how the personality and attitudes of intelligent agents could be designed to most effectively promote bonding. Observational data are collected from a series of conversations, and a measure of bonding is adapted and verified. The effects of personality and dispositional attitudes on bonding are analyzed, and we find that attentiveness and excitement are more effective at...

Modeling and realization of an intelligent tutor for informal situations in support of formal education is a new and challenging problem relevant to the learning performance and efficacy. It needs further exploration regarding the factors that distinguish tutoring and learning in a formal classroom and informal places. The paper presents the results from an empirical study identifying the envir...

Organizations need to change for developing and surviving in the marketplace, but changes bring uncertainty and not only produce feelings of apprehension, anxiety and stress, but also create resistance among employees. Resistance can delay and increase the costs of a change process. So, it is essential to present organizational changes in a manner that reduce the potential for resistance. In th...

Intelligent Environments are supposed to act proactively anticipating user’s needs and preferences in order to support people in their daily lives. Therefore, the capability of an Intelligent Environment to learn user’s habits and common behaviours becomes an important step towards allowing an environment to provide such personalized services. In this chapter, we use two scenarios, we highlight...

Projects involving the investigation and construction of Intelligent Environments have had reasonable success in demonstrating their potential applicability in the real world. However, most of these efforts pay little or no attention to their security and privacy implications. These are key issues that need to be addressed in order for Intelligent Environments to be deployed broadly. In this pa...