Cooperative behavior is a desired trait in many fields from computer games to robotics. Yet, achieving cooperative behavior is often difficult, as maintaining shared information about the dynamics of agents in the world can be complex. We focus on the specific task of cooperative pathfinding and introduce a new approach based on the idea of “direction maps” that learns about the movement of age...

One purpose of online group projects is to encourage collaborative dialogue for new knowledge construction. During such projects students have a dual objective: learn through constructing new knowledge together while also completing the task. Cooperative approaches to task completion are an alternative to collaborative dialogue. The impact of task type on collaborative versus cooperative approa...