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Training Teams with Collaborative Agents

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Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2000)

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Training teams is an activity that is expensive, time-consuming, hazardous in some cases, and can be limited by availability of equipment and personnel. In team training, the focus is on optimizing interactions, such as efficiency of communication, conflict resolution and prioritization, group situation awareness, resource distribution and load balancing, etc. This paper presents an agent-based approach to designing intelligent team training systems. We envision a computer-based training system in which teams are trained by putting them through scenarios, which allow them to practice their team skills. There are two important roles that intelligent agents can play; these are as virtual team members and as coach. To carry out these functions, these agents must be equipped with an understanding of the task domain, the team structure, the selected decision-making process and their belief about other team members’ mental states.

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  1. MS 3112 Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843-3112

    Michael S. Miller, Jianwen Yin, Richard A. Volz, Thomas R. Ioerger & John Yen

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  1. Département d’informatique, Université du Québec á Montréal, C.P. 8888, succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC, Canada, H3C 3P8

    Gilles Gauthier

  2. Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC, Canada, H3C 3J7

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Miller, M.S., Yin, J., Volz, R.A., Ioerger, T.R., Yen, J. (2000). Training Teams with Collaborative Agents. In: Gauthier, G., Frasson, C., VanLehn, K. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1839. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45108-0_10

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