In designing a course a teacher defines the educational goals, selects the teaching material and the way of assessment and finally defines a didactic model. In this didactic model the teacher defines his way of teaching taking into account the different ways of learning. Students starting an...

A principled framework for general adaptive intelligent systems is described and applied to the domain of social robotics. Under the principled framework, the author develops computational methods to address an important aspect of a social robot, which is the ability to rapidly adapt to changes...