E-learning with protensional agents: playing guitar

Authors:
Emil M. Popa;Alexandru V. Georgescu;Boldur E. Barbat
Affiliations:
Faculty of Sciences, "Lucian Blaga" Univ. of Sibiu, Romania;Faculty of Automation and Computers, "Politehnica" Univ. of Timisoara, Romania;Faculty of Sciences, "Lucian Blaga" Univ. of Sibiu, Romania
Venue:
ICCOMP'08 Proceedings of the 12th WSEAS international conference on Computers
Year:
2008

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Abstract

The target of easing the paradigm shift required by modern IT is split into four objectives: a) Showing that "computing with x" is unavoidable in modern artificial intelligence. b) Substantiating this claim in a relevant and uncontroversial domain: e-Learning. c) Illustrating it for "x = sounds", via a challenging agent-oriented application: interpreting protensity-based messages. d) Presenting the experimental model of a virtual guitar teacher. Focus is on paradigmatic changes as regards: time (from Newtonian time to "thick time"), logic (from determinism and bivalence to uncertainty and vagueness) and (e-)learning (from conventional pedagogy to maieutic andragogy, or even heutagogy). The paper stresses the unabated need of mathematics in the new paradigm (e.g., Dirac-like functions to model Husserlian time), the reasons to investigate protensity in relation to Computer-Aided Semiosis, and the new non-algorithmic features of virtual teaching (exemplified by playing guitar). Among the conclusions: the approach to and the implementation of the experimental model are relevant to agent-oriented software engineering non-numeric computing and to the urgency of paradigm shifting.