Exploring Mixed-Initiative Interaction for Learning with Situated Instruction in Cognitive Agents

Human-agent interaction for learning with instruction can would involve pointing the tank in at the enemy tank be viewed on a continuum of instructor/agent control. The environment is partially observable to the instructor or imitation. The other extreme of the continuum is and the task is unknown to the agent, necessitating mixed occupied by systems where instructor interaction is limited initiative, bidirectional information transfer. Our agents are instantiated in Soar (Laird, 2008), a To be able to maintain the state of interactions with the symbolic, cognitive architecture based on the problemspace instructor while acting in the environment, and to be able to hypothesis. A Soar agent's current state is derived learn from these instructions in the context they were from its perceptions, its beliefs about the world and provided in, the agent needs a model of task-oriented knowledge in its long-term memories and is held in its interaction.