The UT Austin Villa 2003 simulated online soccer coach was a first time entry in the RoboCup Coach Competition. In developing the coach, the main research focus was placed on treating advice-giving as a learning problem. The coach learns to predict agent behavior from past observations and automatically generates advice to improve its team’s performance. Using this approach, the UT Austin Villa...

The coaching carousel or turnover is an extreme but frequently occurring phenomenon in soccer. Among the reasons for firing a coach, the most common is the existence of a shock-effect: a new coach would be able to motivate the players better and therefore to improve results. Using data from the Spanish Soccer League during the seasons from 1997-1998 to 2006-2007, this paper investigates the rel...

The UT Austin Villa 2003 simulated online soccer coach was a first time entry in the RoboCup Coach Competition. In developing the coach, the main research focus was placed on treating advice-giving as a machine learning problem. Competing against a field of mostly handcoded coaches, the UT Austin Villa coach earned first place in the competition. In this paper, we present the multi-faceted lear...

Recent psychological research demonstrates, that children with cognitive disorders can clearly benefit by special training of meta-memory strategies. Though up to now this kind of memory training requires a specialized coach who performs an individual motivational support. In the consequence we started to develop a tele-medical Training system that is primarily based on the concept of Animated ...

In this paper we present COACH a Cumulative Online Algorithm for Classi cation of Handwriting de ciencies. A description of our algorithm along with a performance evaluation of COACH on real data is provided. COACH is an innovative algorithm designed for building an online handwriting evaluation tool to be used for classifying and remediating handwriting de ciencies. COACH adapts learning and d...

Hiring a head coach of a college sports team is vital which will definitely have a great influence on the later development of the team. However, a lot of attention has been focused on each coach’s individual features. A systematic and quantitative analysis of the whole coach hiring market is lacking. In a coach hiring network, the coaches are actually voting with their feet. It is interesting ...

Coach development programs have been moving away from knowledge focused, rationalistic pedagogies toward more constructivist, applied approaches that recognize the complex, relational, and contextual nature of coaching learning to coach. Teacher educators doing similar pedagogical work: trying identify dynamic elements what makes an expert teacher distill those into a learner-centered education...