Although Virtual Learning Environments have become popular educational tools, they remain a very active research topic. Two important aspects being discussed for next-generation V...
Due to its important role in dialogue, politeness has been widely studied both from a theoretical point of view and at a practical level in virtual agents. However, few attention ...
We study games in which the choices available to players are not fixed, and may change during the course of play. Specifically, we consider a model in which players may switch st...
Children who are active on the internet are performing significant design and programming activity without realising it, in the course of hacking little animations, game scripts a...
The classical approach to using utility functions suffers from the drawback of having to design and tweak the functions on a case by case basis. Inspired by examples from the anim...
Alexander S. Klyubin, Daniel Polani, Chrystopher L...