Learning plays a vital role in the development of situated agents. In this paper, we explore the use of reinforcement learning to "shape" a robot to perform a predefined target behavior. We connect both simulated and real robots to ALECSYS, a parallel implementation of a learning classifier system with an extended genetic algorithm. After classifying different kinds of Animatlike behaviors, we ...

Designers interact with the world not as actors following preconceived plans but related to the situations encountered. Learning the situatedness of design knowledge is as important as learning design knowledge. Knowledge can be represented in many ways. Multiple representations combine the advantages of different representational forms within one system. Situated agent-based learning discovers...

The aim of this paper is to contribute theoretical development within a field otherwise mostly characterized by empirical contributions, with primary focus on the practice and perspectives on-site facilitators. To theoretically understand use remote teaching, we interaction between systems human activity in education relationships enacted through their interaction, facilitators’ work. In doing ...

This paper takes the approach that designing is situated and that concepts are formed as a consequence of the this situatedness of designing. The papers presents a framework for concept formation that draws on a structure of a design agent that includes sensors, perceptors and conceptors that interact with each other and the external and internal environment of the agent to produce the situatio...

The purpose of this paper is to show how Activity Theory Framework (ATF) was used for understanding the challenges, contradictions, and turbulences that are inevitable when institutions of higher education (IHEs) as learning organizations integrate ICT to change teaching and learning practices, demonstrated through two cases. The first case is situated in a Danish university, whereas the second...

How are general informal reasoning skills acquired? Little research has been done on this topic. Two hypotheses dominate. According to the strong situated learning hypothesis, there are no general informal reasoning skills (only contextor domainspecific skills) and so nothing can be done to improve them. According to the practice hypothesis, general informal reasoning can be improved through in...

In this paper, the authors explore the ideas of mobility and creativity through the use of LingoBee, a mobile app for situated language learning. LingoBee is based on ideas from crowd-sourcing and social networking to support language learners. Learners are able to create their own content and share it with other learners through a repository. The authors have analysed the language content crea...

Situated learning theory offers a radical critique of cognitivist theories of learning, emphasizing the relational aspects of learning within communities of practice in contrast to the individualist assumptions of conventional theories. However, although many researchers have embraced the theoretical strength of situated learning theory, conceptual issues remain undeveloped in the literature. R...