This paper presents ongoing work towards building an autonomous robot that learns in a social context. The mode of social interaction is that of a caretaker-infant pair where a human acts as the caretaker for the robot. By placing our robot, Kismet, in an environment with a human caretaker who actively assists and guides Kismet's learning, this work explores robot learning in a similar environm...

The challenges of designing computer support for education have shifted considerably in recent years, with, e.g., the rapid growth of the Web, online learning and social networking. New human-computer interaction (HCI) design approaches, methods, tools and theories are now required to analyze and understand interactions and learning of online groups. This chapter first reviews a number of issue...

study of genotype by environment interaction (gei) has assumed great importance in genotype testing programs due to yield performance of a genotype is a result of interaction between genotype and environment. gei occurs when the performance of the genotypes is not consistent from one environment to another. therefor, 17 barley genotypes with three check cultivars (wa 2196-68/ny6005-18,f1//scoti...

This paper investigates the interplay between high level debugging strategies and low level tactics in the context of a multirepresentation software development environment (SDE). It investigates three questions. 1. How do programmers integrate debugging strategies and tactics when working with SDEs? 2. What is the relationship between verbal ability, level of graphical literacy and debugging (...