Multi-agent systems for education and interactive entertainment design, use and experience /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Beer, M. D., Fasli, Maria., Richards, Debbie.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2011.
• Subjects: Multiagent systems > Congresses.; Instructional systems > Congresses.; Computer science > Congresses. > Study and teaching; E-learning platforms; Intelligent emotional agents in e-learning systems; Virtual training; Recommender agents; Multiagent systems; Teaching AI and IA; Complex systems development; NetLogo; Multi-user virtual environments and agents; Agent-based modeling; Domain trainers; (Immersive) virtual reality/environment; Case-based reasoning; Cognitive, emotion and personality modelling; Embodied agents; Game development; Human computer interaction; Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge based reasoning; Language technology including speech, linguistics, dialogue; Multi-agent environments and social systems; Scenario analysis; Storytelling/narrative engines; User modelling
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"This book presents readers with a rich collection of ideas from researchers who are exploring the complex tradeoffs that must be made in designing agent systems for education and interactive entertainment"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• 1. MAgICS / Forrest Stonedahl, Michelle Wilkerson-Jerde, Uri Wilensky
• 2. An intelligent agents and multi-agent systems course involving NetLogo / Ilias Sakellariou, Petros Kefalas, Ioanna Stamatopoulou
• 3. Adapting rewards to encourage creativity / F. Grove ... [et al.]
• 4. A Multiagent approach to teaching complex systems development / Simon Lynch, Keerthi Rajendran
• 5. Introducing AI and IA into a non computer science graduate programme / Ioanna Stamatopoulou, Maria Fasli, Petros Kefalas
• 6. Introducing multiagent systems to undergraduates through games and chocolate / Emma Bowring, Milind Tambe
• 7. Survey of educational multi-user virtual environments and agents / Arda Tezcan, Debbie Richards
• 8. A Comparative study of platforms for multi-user virtual environments / Arda Tezcan, Debbie Richards
• 9. Agents with a theory of mind in virtual training / Maaike Harbers, Karel van den Bosch, John-Jules Meyer
• 10. Computers can feel too / K. Chatzara, C. Karagiannidis, D. Stamatis
• 11. Scenario authoring by domain trainers / Debbie Richards, Meredith Taylor
• 12. Crafting a personalised agent-oriented mobile E-learning platform for adaptive third level education / Olapeju Ayoola, Eleni Phelan
• 13. How to build up recommender agents, step by step / Josep Lluis de la Rosa ... [et al.].