General Board Game Playing for Education and Research in Generic AI Game Learning

Konen, Wolfgang

doi:10.1109/cig.2019.8848070

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“…Each subsequent level requires, after all, skills acquired at previous levels [21]. The authors in [22] conclude that the game's dynamics are improved when levels or progress bars are involved. In addition, storytelling is another game design aspect that highly contributes to the successful integration of games into the learning process.…”

Section: Games and Learning: Theoretical Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Initial Experiments using Game-based Learning Applied in a Classical Knowledge Robotics in In-Person and Distance Learning Classroom

Mendonça¹,

Palácios²,

Chrun³

et al. 2021

Adv. sci. technol. eng. syst. j.

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It aims at assisting learning of classical and initial robotics concepts. This proposal, similar to the classic 80s war tanks game on Atari 2600, was developed using an autonomous vehicle. In the first experiment, applied to the class 2019/2, the students (players) had to battle against another autonomous tank developed (in two different ways, in Person and Distance Learning), using keyboard inputs to control their tank. In this game, the students were asked to create states machine models while were being introduced to fundamental concepts such as pose, other basic notions concerning controlled and autonomous robots, and the hierarchy of actions. At the end of the games, a questionnaire answered by the students extracted valuable findings of the examined concepts. In 2021/1 class, the second and third experiments were applied. The former was an extension of the first experiment, using autonomous parking cars. The latter was inspired by the classic Pong game, with the addition of more degrees of freedom (DOF). In this case, the player attempts to reach and catch a ball through the operation of a robotic arm with two rotating joints, using keyboard inputs. Each block or scenario will become more complex, and the student has time to perform a task. In the case of the third experiment, the concepts including 2-D workspace, multiple solutions, inverse, and direct kinematics were explored. Delivery rates for the first and second experiments were 90% and 80%, respectively. Even though three individual experiments were investigated, the single objective was achieved: the implementation of modern didactic tools to deliver critical pedagogical concepts to students in the robotics class.

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Section: Games and Learning: Theoretical Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Initial Experiments using Game-based Learning Applied in a Classical Knowledge Robotics in In-Person and Distance Learning Classroom

Mendonça¹,

Palácios²,

Chrun³

et al. 2021

Adv. sci. technol. eng. syst. j.

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“…Such an approach has tremendous potential to successfully introduce those concepts to pre-college students. Looking in the literature we can find several studies that exploit the intersection between games and AI/ML to form the basis for a dedicated course or a module of a course (Zhou et al, 2017;Zhou et al, 2018;Li et al, 2019;Konen, 2019). In this work we provide a general review of games and software tools that can be used to support AI and ML pre-college education.…”

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Games for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Education: Review and Perspectives

Giannakos

Voulgari

Papavlasopoulou

et al. 2020

Lecture Notes in Educational Technology

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Digital games have gained significance as a new paradigm in education. Digital games are accessible and affordable to anyone and provide opportunities for at-scale teaching and learning. In recent years, there has been increasing interest in digital games to support computational thinking and programming in pre-college (K-12) schools. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are a rapidly developing field, attracting an increasing number of learners in the past few years. Although the confluence of digital games and AI/ML is an important and challenging field for teaching and learning researchers, a literature review has not yet been conducted in this area. The purpose of this work is to present a review of recent research into games to support AI and ML education. After a thorough search, relevant papers and games were selected and included in our qualitative content analysis. On the basis of this review, we present an overview of the relevant research papers and games, as well as showcased how different games provide a unique opportunity to teach a number of different concepts and topics in AI and ML.

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“…AI research in games has subsequently grown far beyond the domain of board games (Yannakakis & Togelius, 2018). Nonetheless, these continue to be a focus of active research, not only in AI techniques for playing particular games -e.g., Go (Silver et al, 2016) -but also for playing board games in general (Konen, 2019;Kowalski et al, 2019;Piette et al, 2019) or even creating new ones (Stephenson et al, 2019;Kowalski & Szyku la, 2016). Furthermore, new board game AI challenges and competitions continue to be proposed (Justesen et al, 2019).…”

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ColorShapeLinks: A board game AI competition for educators and students

Fachada

2020

Preprint

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ColorShapeLinks is an AI board game competition framework specially designed for students and educators in videogame development, with openness and accessibility in mind. The competition is based on an arbitrarily-sized version of the Simplexity board game, the motto of which, "simple to learn, complex to master", is curiously also applicable to AI agents. ColorShapeLinks offers graphical and text-based frontends and a completely open and documented development framework built using industry standard tools and following software engineering best practices. ColorShapeLinks is not only a competition, but both a game and a framework which educators and students can extend and use to host their own competitions.

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General Board Game Playing for Education and Research in Generic AI Game Learning

Cited by 21 publications

References 20 publications

Initial Experiments using Game-based Learning Applied in a Classical Knowledge Robotics in In-Person and Distance Learning Classroom

Initial Experiments using Game-based Learning Applied in a Classical Knowledge Robotics in In-Person and Distance Learning Classroom

Games for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Education: Review and Perspectives

ColorShapeLinks: A board game AI competition for educators and students

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