Research Article Eric A. Walden Rawls College of Business Administration Texas Tech University and Tepper School of Business Carnegie Mellon University [email protected] Glenn J. Browne McIntire School of Commerce University of Virginia [email protected] Technology adoption often occurs sequentially, so that later potential adopters can see the decisions (adopt or not adopt) of earlier pot...

This paper presents how a situated agent model can wrap around a design optimization tool and construct concepts from interaction between the agent, the design problem and the use of the tool. The agent develops its structure and behaviour specific to what it is confronted with – its experience. As a consequence, designers can integrate their expertise with the learning results from the agent t...

Real interactions around healthcare technologies are inherently complex. To evaluate existing technologies and identify requirements for new systems, a focus is needed for data gathering and analysis. We describe qualitative studies of the use of various healthcare technologies. In our studies to date, we have focused on either particular technologies (and a variety of users) or particular user...

This paper conceptually examines how and why projects and project teams may be conceived as highly generative episodic individual and team learning places that can serve as vehicles or agents to promote organizational learning. It draws on and dissects a broad and relevant literature concerning situated learning, organizational learning, learning spaces and project management. The arguments pre...

We present a Wizard-of-Oz environment for data collection on Referring Expression Generation (REG) in a real situated spoken dialogue task. The collected data will be used to build user simulation models for reinforcement learning of referring expression generation strategies.

The architecture and design process of a highly autonomous, situated agent is described. The architecture consists of a population of agents which are designed in an incremental, bottom-up fashion according to what we call a behavioural engineering approach. The agents operate in parallel and have a close coupling between perception and action. Emergent behaviour and memory-based learning deter...

This article analyses the trajectories into teacher education of a group of child minders who are studying to become pre-school teachers. The specific focus is on what prior experiences and learning from pre-school mean for their trajectories, and how these experiences and learning are recognised in the first year of teacher education. A situated learning perspective is applied, with a focus on...

Systems development research shows that practitioners seldom follow methods and that the competencies required for successful development of computer-based systems go well beyond those represented in contemporary methods. These insights make us question the role that methods should play in educating would-be developers. Pedagogical theories, such as situated learning and double-loop learning, c...

Artificial agents controlled by dynamic recurrent node networks with fixed weights are evolved to search for food and associate it with one of two different temperatures depending on experience. The task requires either instrumental or classical conditioned responses to be learned. The paper extends previous work in this area by requiring that a situated agent be capable of re-learning during i...

A situated approach is employed to in order to study distributed collaborative learning. We present a case study of how one group of students collaborate through a groupware system called TeamWave Workplace. In addtion, we provide an illustration of a case involving a particularly interesting form of use concerning this topic. The main aim of the article is to gain insights into some of the pro...