This paper presents \Ibots" (Integrating roBOTS), a computer experiment in team robotics designed on an arti cial mission. Our aim is to understand how to use reinforcement learning to program automatically a team of robots with a shared mission. Moreover, we are interested in learning real team solutions. These are programs whose form strongly depends on the number of robots composing the team...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a psychological skills training program on the cohesion of a men's soccer team during a playing season. Thirty subjects were divided into an experimental group (first team) and a control group (reserve team). All subjects were measured on cohesiveness items before, in the middle, and after a seven-month psychological intervention program. ...

With concussion rates on the rise for football players, there is a need for further research to increase skills and decrease injuries. Behavioral skills training is effective in teaching a wide variety of skills but has yet to be studied in the sports setting. We evaluated behavioral skills training to teach safer tackling techniques to six participants from a Pop Warner football team. Safer ta...

Engineering accreditation bodies express a strong consensus that in addition to technical and scientific skills, engineering education also needs promote the development of professional skills. In general, team-based projects are considered be valuable approaches develop such skills have been extensively added curricula. Yet, it remains unclear which what extent students learn from these interv...

In the Australian VET sector and workplaces, the term generic skills now refers to the set of eight major skills and various personal attributes developed recently by the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Business Council of Australia (2002), and which they referred to as employability skills.These employability skills are: self-management, team work, communicating, planning and o...