Challenging scholarly articles are not easy to read and understand by learners. Our previous work shows an innovative learning framework –SOAR (Scholarly Article) validated on a group of learners without research experience on improving their comprehension skill on scholarly articles. In this paper, we present additional result after validating SOAR on novice learners who first time read schola...

SOAR, located on Cerro Pachón in Chile, is a recently completed 4.1m telescope, dedicated to high angular resolution. To complement the other two larger telescopes, Gemini on Cerro Pachón and the Blanco telescope on Cerro Tololo, SOAR’s niche is high resolution, imaging in the visible and spectroscopy, which calls for the development of an adaptive optics (AO) module. This instrument will provi...

This paper reports on a preliminary attempt to develop and evaluate synthetic characters with multiple skill levels and with human-like behavior. Our goal was to determine which aspects of behavior have impact on skill level and humanness. We developed a bot that plays the computer game Quake against a human opponent. That bot can be parameterized along four dimensions: decision time, aggressiv...