We study how student behaviors associated with engagement differ across different school settings. We present a study to investigate the variation in gaming the system and off-task behavior in schools in the USA and Philippines, using quantitative field observations on students using the same Cognitive Tutor lesson on scatterplots. We find that students in the Philippines go off-task significan...

Synthetically generated emotional behaviors in robots can encourage humans to perceive robots with more interest and draw more human attention. Effectively implemented emotional behaviors can help robots to appear more intelligent and can even compensate for limited artificial intelligence by letting humans use their imagination to interpret the robot’s behavior. In order to test human reaction...

|New reactive behaviors that implement formations in multi-robot teams are presented and evaluated. The formation behaviors are integrated with other navigational behaviors to enable a robotic team to reach navigational goals, avoid hazards and simultaneously remain in formation. The behaviors are implemented in simulation, on robots in the laboratory and aboard DARPA's HMMWV-based Unmanned Gro...