Contemporary educational practices have been calling for pedagogical models that foreground flexibility, agency, ubiquity, and connectedness in learning. These have, turn, stimulating redevelopments of infrastructure –with physical contours reconfigured into novel complex learning spaces at universities, schools, museums, libraries. Understanding the complexity these innovative requires an ackn...

According to the ideomotor theory, actions are represented in terms of their perceptual effects, offering a solution for the correspondence problem of imitation (how to translate the observed action into a corresponding motor output). This effect-based coding of action is assumed to be acquired through action-effect learning. Accordingly, performing an action leads to the integration of the per...

We present an algorithm that derives actions’ effects and preconditions in partially observable, relational domains. Our algorithm has two unique features: an expressive relational language, and an exact tractable computation. An actionschema language that we present permits learning of preconditions and effects that include implicit objects and unstated relationships between objects. For examp...

Jean is a model of early cognitive development based loosely on Piaget’s theory of sensori-motor and pre-operational thought. Like an infant, Jean repeatedly executes schemas, gradually transferring them to new situations and extending them as necessary to accommodate new experiences. We model this process of accommodation with the Experimental State Splitting (ESS) algorithm. ESS learns elemen...

In this paper we present tractable algorithms for learning a logical model of actions’ effects and preconditions in deterministic partially observable domains. These algorithms update a representation of the set of possible action models after every observation and action execution. We show that when actions are known to have no conditional effects, then the set of possible action models can be...