Situated Personal Development Planning

Socially Situated Planning

Virtual environments such as training simulators and video games do an impressive job at modeling the physical dynamics of synthetic worlds but fall short when modeling the social dynamics of anything but the most impoverished human encounters. Yet the social dimension is at least as important as good graphics for creating an engaging game or effective training tool. Commercial flight simulator...

A Situated Planning Agent

FOR THE VIRTUAL WORLD ENVIRONMENT by DAVID CLAYTON CROUCH (Under the direction of Donald Nute) ABSTRACT The following paper describes an agent designed for the Virtual World environment, based upon the principles of situated cognition. Situated or embedded cognition is an idea in opposition to the Physical Symbol System Hypothesis as to how intelligent agents are to be constructed. Agents based...

The Personal Server: Personal Content for Situated Displays

The Personal Server is a small, lightweight, and easy-to-use device that supports personal mobile applications. Instead of relying on a small mobile display, the Personal Server enables seamless interaction with situated displays in the nearby environment. The current prototype is supported by emerging storage, processing, and communication technologies. Because it is carried by the user and do...

Planning Partially for Situated Agents

In recent years, within the planning literature there has been a departure from approaches computing total plans for given goals, in favour of approaches computing partial plans. Total plans can be seen as (partially ordered) sets of actions which, if executed successfully, would lead to the achievement of the goals. Partial plans, instead, can be seen as (partially ordered) sets of actions whi...

Personal Development Planning (from The Handbook for Economics Lecturers)