The Memolab Project
- Short description
- The research work reported here concerns the application of Artificial Intelligence techniques to learning environments. A learning environment is a category of educational software where the learner's task is not to answer a predefined serie of questions but to explore a complex world with the assistance of computational agents. We implemented MEMOLAB as an instance of such a learning environment. In MEMOLAB, the learner creates a psychology experiment and then asks the system to simulate the results. ETOILE is a toolbox of MEMOLAB components that can be reused for similar learning environments.
- Keywords
- Artificial intelligence, learning environment, artificial lab, teaching styles, human-computer collaboration.
- Participants
- The research team is multidisciplinary. It includes
Patrick Mendelsohn
,
Boris Borcic
, M. Hilario (now at
CUI
)
Pierre Dillenbourg
and
Daniel Schneider
- Funding
- The memolab research project was funded by the Swiss Research Fund under a special research program (PNR 23), entitled `Artificial Intelligence and Robotics'.
- Period
- January 90 - June 93. Although the end of funding, we still develop the MEMOLAB system.
- Publications
- The 1994 Report (PS file) This report is more recent - of course- but less detailed than the 1993 one.
- The 1993 Report (PS file). Have a first look at the HTML format
- The 1992 Report (PS file)
- The Geneva Manifesto of Interactive Learning Environments (PS file)(How things started).
- Dillenbourg, P. (in press), Distributing cognition over humans and machines,
to appear in: De Corte, Mandl, Glaser & Vosniadu, International
Perspectives on the Psychological and Educational Foundations of
Technology-Based Learning Environments (ASI Series) (PS File)
- Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Mendelsohn & Daniel Schneider (1994) The distribution of pedagogical roles in a multi-agent learning environment in R. Lewis & P. Mendelsohn.(Eds) Lessons from Learning (p. 199-216). Amsterdam: North-Holland.
- Dillenbourg, P.J. (1992),
The Language Shift: a mechanism for triggering metacognitive activites,
in P.Winne and M.Jones (Eds.) Adaptive Learning
Environments, Berlin: Springer Verlag, 287-315. (PS file)
- Contact
- For more information, call or write to
Pierre Dillenbourg