ALADDIN (Autonomous Learning Agents for Distributed and Decentralised Information Networks – http://www.aladdinproject.org/) is a five year partnership between industry and academia to develop methods and techniques for decentralised information systems. Currently in its fourth year, its aim is to use autonomous software agents to address challenges of situational awareness, inference and co-or...

We outline several challenges and opportunities for building physically situated systems that can interact in open, dynamic, and relatively unconstrained environments. We review a platform and recent progress on developing computational methods for situated, multiparty, open-world dialog, and highlight the value of representations of the physical surroundings and of harnessing the broader situa...

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The recent proliferation of studies on mindfulness produced varying theoretical models, each based in part on how mindfulness is assessed. These models agree, however, that mindfulness encompasses moment-to-moment or situational experiences. Incongruence between dispositional and situational assessment would be problematic for theory and empirical research. In particular, it remains to be estab...

Acknowledgements: We would like to thank Sean Roberts and two anonymous reviewers for feedback on an earlier draft of this manuscript. JW is funded by an AHRC studentship. Abstract It is well established that context plays a fundamental role in how we learn and use language. Here we explore how context links short-term language use with the long-term emergence of different types of language sys...

The traditional construction education model based on precise, well-defined problems and formal definitions is not satisfactorily fulfilling its mission of educating the decision-makers of tomorrow. This realization has moved several researchers to explore alternatives where problem solving is carried out in conjunction with the environment and concepts are embedded in the context promoting lea...