AI Education Colloquium
Papers from the 2008 AAAI Workshop
Zachary Dodds, Haym Hirsh, Kiri Wagstaff, Program Cochairs
Technical Report WS-08-02 published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
This technical report is also available in book and CD format.
Contents
Organizing Committee / vii
Zachary Dodds, Haym Hirsh, Kiri Wagstaff
A Multi-Agent Team Formation Framework for Classroom Instruction / 1
Adam Anthony, Marie desJardins, Steve Martin
Developing a Text-Based MMORPG to Motivate Students in CS1 / 7
Richard Barnes, Maria Gini
Web Crawling as an AI Project / 12
Christopher H. Brooks
Teaching Forward-Chaining Planning with JAVAFF / 17
Andrew Coles, Maria Fox, Derek Long, Amanda Smith
Using Surveyor SRV-1 Robots to Motivate CS1 Students / 23
John Cummins, M. Q. Azhar, Elizabeth Sklar
Making Research Tools Accessible for All AI Students / 28
Zachary Dodds, Christine Alvarado, Sara Owsley Sood
Gridworld Search and Rescue: A Project Framework for a Course in Artificial Intelligence / 34
Eric Eaton
Low-Cost Localization for Educational Robotic Platforms via an External Fixed-Position Camera / 40
Drew Housten, William C. Regli
Making Nifty Assignments Niftier and Not So Nifty Assignments Nifty with Online Technologies / 46
Susan P. Imberman
Just Add Wheels: Leveraging Commodity Laptop Hardware for Robotics and AI Education / 50
Jonathan Kelly, Jonathan Binney, Arvind Pereira, Omair Khan, Gaurav S. Sukhatme
AIspace: Interactive Tools for Learning Artificial Intelligence / 56
Byron Knoll, Jacek Kisynski, Giuseppe Carenini, Cristina Conati, Alan Mackworth, David Poole
Leveraging the Singularity: Introducing AI to Liberal Arts Students / 62
James B. Marshall
A Cyber-Infrastructure for Supporting K-12 Engineering Education thorough Robotics / 68
William M. Mongan, William C. Regli
Emotional Computation in Artificial Intelligence Education / 74
Sara Owsley Sood
A Pedagogical Framework for Modeling and Simulating Intelligent Agents and Control Systems / 79
Dan Tappan
Making Intelligent Walking Robots Accessible to Educators: A Brain and Sensor Pack for Legged Mobile Robots / 84
Jerry B. Weinberg, William Yu, Kim Wheeler-Smith, Robin Knight, Ross Mead, Ian Bernstein, Jeff Croxell, Doug Webster
Teaching Artificial Intelligence Playfully / 90
Michael Zyda, Sven Koenig