POPSICLE and Beyond

Daniel Stamate

Department of Computer and Information Sciences

Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Goran Trajkovski, Dr. Darush Davani

(2004)

POPSICLE (Patterns in Orientation: Pattern-Aided Simulated Interaction Context Learning Experiment) was introduced as a semester-long research group project of a course in Artificial Intelligence. The project concentrates on investigating aspects of human learning of simple environments. In this paper the project is overview, and comment on the pedagogical and management issues used to motivate and support students. The positive experiments from this undergraduate research experienced infused in teaching and AI related course was the inspiration for establishing the Cognitive Agency and Robotics Lab (CARoL) at Towson University, and within a semester prepare the infrastructure to teach a Robotics course on a shoestring.

The work on this projects has been partially supported by the College of Sciences and Mathematics Undergraduate Research Committee (Fall 2003 and Spring 2004).

This project has been funded in part by the National Academy of Sciences and the National Science Foundation under the Twinning Program, supported by Contract No. INT-0002341 from the National Science Foundation. The contents of this publication do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the National Science Foundation, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products or organizations imply endorsements by the National Academy of Sciences or the National Science Foundation.

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Updated July 11 2004