Education needs in
today's societies are steadily increasing. It is a challenge to find
new ways of teaching to increase educational level of society. The most
advanced technology would be a great help by making teaching / learning
more effective and accessible.
Effectiveness is mainly based on three issues: adaptability, a precise
recognition of the needs of students, probably identified by their
cognitive or emotional state, and as third one the adaptation of
teaching methods to those needs. Accessibility is needed for enabling
or facilitating access to education in very different problematic
cases: physical distance between educator and student, student
cognitive, physical or emotional problems, or any other special
situation.
In particular, AI techniques can do a lot in both lines. We propose
this session as a forum where research and applications of AI in
education are shown, problems encountered, proposed solutions and
achievements are discussed. The aim is that presentations and
discussions are inspiration or starting point for further research.
Specific topics for this Special Session include, but are not limited to:
• Educational robotics
• Human Robot Interaction for education.
• Help and advice systems
• Adaptive systems
• E-learning
• Educational interactive games
• Ontologies in education
• Intelligent systems and simulation
• Assessment intelligent systems
• Case-based reasoning for learning
• Cognitive tools for learning
• Smart environments for eduction
• Intelligent training systems
• Motivation tools
• Multimedia educational environments
• Web-based learning services
• Human-agent interaction
• Knowledge-based communities
• Virtual laboratories
Chairperson: Rafael Martínez Tomás (Spain)
Co-chair: José Ramón Álvarez-Sánchez (Spain)
International
Work-conference on the Interplay between Natural and
Artificial Computation
