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Steve Meets Jack: The Integration of an Intelligent Tutor and a Virtual Environment with Planning Capabilities

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In this paper, we describe how we have integrated Steve, an intelligent tutor based on Soar, and HeSPI, a human simulation tool for planning and simulating maintenance tasks in nuclear power plants. The objectives of this integration were to test Steve’s flexibility to be used in different applications and environments and to extend HeSPI to use it as a virtual environment for training. We discuss the problems encountered and the solutions we have designed to solve them.

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  • Nuclear Power Plant
  • Virtual Environment
  • Virtual World
  • Intelligent Tutoring System
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  1. Computer Science School, Technical University of Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, 28660, Boadilla del Monte (Madrid)

    Gonzalo Méndez & Angélica de Antonio

  2. Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA, 90292-6695, USA

    Jeff Rickel

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  1. University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, Friedberger Str. 2a, 86161, Augsburg, Germany

    Thomas Rist

  2. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Ruth S. Aylett

  3. BT plc, Adastral Park, IP5 3RE, Ipswich, UK

    Daniel Ballin

  4. Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, 4676 Admiralty Way, 90292-6695, Marina del Rey, CA

    Jeff Rickel

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Méndez, G., Rickel, J., de Antonio, A. (2003). Steve Meets Jack: The Integration of an Intelligent Tutor and a Virtual Environment with Planning Capabilities. In: Rist, T., Aylett, R.S., Ballin, D., Rickel, J. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2792. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39396-2_54

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