When looking for an activity in a bar or trying to find a good movie it often seems difficult to find complete and correct information about the event. Hyperleap tries to solve this problem of bad information giving by ...

One of the main challenges in cognitive science is to explain how people make reasonable inferences in daily life. Theories that attempt to explain this either fail to capture inference in its full generality or they ...

This thesis project studied the effects of exclusion learning when learning L2 vocabulary. This method was implemented in a multiple choice flashcard application along with a control algorithm. The exclusion algorithm ...

The perception of upright can be biased by the visual context. The extent of the bias is linked to the functioning of the vestibular organ. The rod-in-frame task is an excellent method to test this biasing effect. The ...

In this thesis the e ects of having a virtual personal tutor in an educa- tional game are studied. For this, a new educational game was developed in which people had to judge or spell as many English words as they ...

As machine learning systems grow to take up ever more space in our everyday lives, ensuring that they are aligned with human values became an important topic. One issue of automatic systems which learn from large amount ...

A key challenge in developing companion agents for children is keeping them inter- ested after novelty e ects wear o . Self-Determination Theory posits that motivation is sustained if the human feels related to the agent. ...

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This thesis presents an investigation of how environmental settings influence the appearance of altruism within small groups of agents. A set of simulation environments has been setup in which agents can perform simple ...