lative Novelty to Identify Useful Temporal Abstractions in Reinforcement Learning ?Ozg?ur S?im?sek ozgur@cs.umass.edu Andrew G. Barto barto@cs.umass.edu Department of Computer Scie...
Young people interact with games, animations, and simulations all of the time. But few of them are able to create interactive media. The obstacle: traditional programming language...
Mitchel Resnick, Mary Flanagan, Caitlin Kelleher, ...
Programming contests can provide a high-profile method for attracting interest in computer science. We describe our philosophy as it pertains to the purpose and merits of program...
We propose a multi-sensor affect recognition system and evaluate it on the challenging task of classifying interest (or disinterest) in children trying to solve an educational pu...
Various cognitive and computational models have addressed the use of previous experience to understand a new domain. In particular, research in case-based reasoning has explored t...