The merchant was new in the valley and had built two sheds to collect firewood for sale in the winter. Since he was new in the area, he had no idea how cold the winter would be. So he sent his apprentice up the mountain to talk to the hermit, who knew a lot about nature. The apprentice came back all fired up: "Boss, the hermit says the winter will be very cold!" "Good," thought the merchant. "L...

This paper reports on the theory, design, and implementation of an artistic computer colleague that improvises and collaborates with human users in real-time. Our system, Drawing Apprentice, is based on existing theories of art, creative cognition, and collaboration synthesized into an enactive model of creativity. The implementation details of the Drawing Apprentice are provided along with ear...

This assignment considers the use of the apprenticeship model of teaching in academic subject areas. This has been investigated by various authors since 1989. I will consider the various flavours of the techniques presented and some of the practical implications of these. I will draw from our experience running several courses where students undertake business like projects within a protective ...

background: according to the important role of health care apprentice program on medical students’ performance, especially in relation with social accountability of medical education, it is attempted to assess efficacy of health care apprentice program on the level of medical students’ knowledge and skills in the context of primary health care at babol university of medial sciences    methods: ...

Definition 1.1. Let K be a field. (V,+, ·) is a vector space over K, if (V,+) is an Abelian group, and · : K × V → V (called scalar multiplication) is distributive, associative and multiplication by 1 is the identity on V . This compact definition unwinds to give us the following ten(!) axioms: (1) + : V × V → V (2) u+ (v + w) = (u+ v) + w. (3) u+ v = v + u. (4) ∃0 ∈ V such that v + 0 = 0 + v =...

Over the past couple of decades, virtual humans have been attracting more and more attention. Many applications including, video games, movies, and various training and tutoring systems have benefited from work in this area. While the visual quality of virtual agents has improved dramatically, their intelligence and socialization still needs improvement. In this paper, we present work towards e...

Various methods have been proposed in the past to improve student learning by introducing new styles of working with assignments. These include problem-based learning, use of case studies and apprenticeship. In most courses, however, these proposals have not resulted in a widespread significant change of teaching methods. Most institutions still use a traditional lecture/lab class approach with...

This paper describes the task of browsing and an agent we have dev eloped to improve the speed and success rate of browsing. The agent is a learning apprentice: it monitors the user’s normal browsing actions and learns a measure of "relevance" to the user interests. It searches the library being browsed, uses the learned measure to evaluate items and presents to the user those that are most rel...