In this paper, we describe an environment for supporting collaborative problem solving that uses dialogue agents both for creating a collaborative attitude between students as well as for offering instruction. We evaluated the effect of the social dialogue agents on student collaboration by contrasting a condition that included the social agents with a condition that did not include them. Both ...

The growing consensus that human intelligence and artificial are complementary has led to Human-AI hybrid systems. As digital platforms incorporating human-AI hybrids, platform designers need evaluate the influence of AI on judgment, how such systems perform. In this paper, we investigate: Are decisions influenced by agents in high uncertainty environments, as evaluating ICO projects? Under wha...

background and purpose: to investigate how much the method of observation agrees with a standardised review of evidence of clinical examination, for the assessment of clinical otoscopic competence. methods: 65 medical students took part in an objective structured clinical examination (osce) station using patients with real pathology. examiners assessed otoscopic competency in tympanic membrane ...

Delusions are deeply evidence-resistant. Patients with delusions unmoved by evidence that is in direct conflict the delusion, often responding to such offering obvious, and strange, confabulations. As a consequence, standard view not evidence-responsive. This claim has been used as key argumentative wedge debates on nature of delusions. Some have taken be beliefs argued this implies belief cons...