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...

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This paper presents a case study showing how hybrid methods of knowledge elicitation can be used to build models in support of the functioning of intelligent agents. What facilitates both the elicitation of knowledge and its conversion into actionable models is the use of a unified representational knowledge scheme – specifically, an unambiguous, ontologically grounded metalanguage that serves ...

How far are current route services from imitating humans in giving route directions? And what can we learn from this question, in terms of gaps of knowledge and need for further research? This paper aims for a systematic framework to develop a research agenda for services to give better route directions. The paper starts from the premise that people can give better route advice than current rou...

We define the role and mechanisms of coordination in Intelligent Agent Societies (IASs). We then outline our approach and the underlying design principles aimed at the automatic generation of a theory of coordination. Such theory would assist in designing new IASs and provide trouble-shooting tools for suboptimally functioning IASs. We also describe in this paper the decisions that have been ma...

Since Bloom’s initial work on competencies in 1956, various competency systems have been designed and used to assess students’ competencies. Different pedagogical researchers and stakeholders prefer different systems. We have been collaborating with them. Such systems are essential for the adaptation by adaptive intelligent tutoring systems. Now, this paper presents how ActiveMath integrates se...

Carers people who provide regular support for a friend or relative who could not manage without them frequently report high levels of stress. Good emotional support (e.g. provided by an Intelligent Virtual Agent) could help relieve this stress. This study investigates whether adaptation to personality affects the amount and type of emotional support a carer is given and possible interaction eff...

This paper proposes a model giving Theory of Mind (ToM) capabilities to artificial agents to allow them to carry out deceptive behaviours. It describes a model supporting an N-level Theory of Mind and reports a study to assess whether equipping agents with a two-level ToM results in them being perceived as more socially intelligent than agents with a singlelevel ToM. A deception game being deve...