Developing Relationships Between Autonomous Agents: Promoting Pro-Social Behaviour Through Virtual Learning Environments Part I

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Author(s): Scott Watson (University of Hertfordshire, UK), Kerstin Dautenhahn (University of Hertfordshire, UK), Wan Ching (Steve) Ho (University of Hertfordshire, UK)and Rafal Dawidowicz (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 14
Source title: Handbook of Research on Agent-Based Societies: Social and Cultural Interactions
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Goran Trajkovski (Laureate Education Inc., USA)and Samuel G. Collins (Towson University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-236-7.ch009

Keywords: Agent Technologies / Artificial Intelligence / Computer Science & IT / Information Science Reference

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This chapter discusses certain issues in the development of Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) populated by autonomous social agents, with specific reference to existing applications designed to promote pro-social behaviour among children. We begin by describing the ways in which human groups are organised and maintained, and present the primary school class as a particular example of a social network. Contemporary psychological descriptions of bullying are explained, and current anti-bullying interventions are briefly reviewed. Two VLEs are described, which have been designed to counteract the problems inherent in bullying as exemplars of social and educational environments. This chapter concludes in Part II where the requirements for believable, autonomous agents, used in virtual learning environments, are outlined.

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