Motivation as key factor for maintaining effective learning must be maintained during computer-supported learning. For this, we attempt to investigate the benefits of a socially intelligent tutoring agent that goes beyond attending to aspects of an individual student, the tutoring friend. In a computer-supported learning system, a tutoring friend is an artificial agent that manages relationship...

Humanoid robots that have to operate in cluttered and unstructured environments, such as man-made and natural disaster scenarios, require sophisticated sensorimotor capabilities. A crucial prerequisite for the successful execution of whole-body locomotion and manipulation tasks in such environments is the perception of the environment and the extraction of associated environmental affordances.,...

Behavioral dynamics is a framework for understanding adaptive behavior as arising from the self-organizing interaction between animal and environment. The methods of nonlinear dynamics provide a language for describing behavior that is both stable and flexible. Behavioral dynamics has been criticized for ignoring the animal's sensitivity to its own capabilities, leading to the development of an...

Bingham, Schmidt, & Rosenblum, (1989) showed that people are able to select, by hefting balls, the optimal weight for each size ball to be thrown farthest. We now investigate function learning and smart mechanisms as hypotheses about how this affordance is perceived. Twenty-four unskilled adult throwers learned to throw by practicing with a subset of balls that would only allow acquisition of t...

The IS research community is still struggling with a proper theorisation of the IT-artefact. The debate manifests in questions regarding the effect of IT (Markus and Silver 2008), the identity of systems (Reimers et al. 2009), or more generally the appropriate theoretical tools for studying these systems. Part of the quest for theorising the IT-artefact is whether technology possesses inherent ...

Causal cognition is a core aspect of how we deal with the world; however, existing psychological theories tend not to target intuitive causal engagement that done in daily life. To fill this gap, propose an Ecological-Enactive (E-E) affordance-based account situated engagement, is, judgments and perceptions. We develop improve our understanding way dealing world, which includes making progress ...

The use of adaptations, along with the social affordances of collaboration and networking, carries a great potential for improving e-learning experiences. However, the review of the previous work indicates current e-learning systems have only marginally explored the integration of social features and adaptation techniques. The overall aim of this research, therefore, is to address this gap by e...

The interaction of biological agents within the real world is based on their abilities and the affordances of the environment. By contrast, the classical view of perception considers only sensory features, as do most object recognition models. Only a few models make use of the information provided by the integration of sensory information as well as possible or executed actions. Neither the rel...

Road networks, roads, and junctions are examples of natural language terms whose semantics can be described by affordances of their physical referents. In order to define affordances in such a way that they can be used for classifying and describing instances in a geographic database, one has to deal with the problems of informational incompleteness and limited definability. In this paper, we p...