ALICE builds an innovative and adaptive environment for e-learning, combining personalization, collaboration and simulation aspects with affective and emotive experiences. Seeking to overcome the limitations of current e-learning systems and content, ALICE provides an interactive, challenging, and context-aware environment which responds to learners’ increasing demands for empowerment, identity, and authenticity in learning experiences. The resulting system will be able to effectively involve learners in educational, cultural and informative activities in two specific contexts: university instruction (with particular emphasis on scientific topics) and emergency and civil defence (as for example the behaviour to take at a personal and collective level during evacuation (e.g. as a consequence of an event like an earthquake, or terrorist attack).
The SGI is working closely with consortium partners within ALICE to integrate and expand on the capacities of the Intelligent Web Tutoring (IWT) system, developing a serious game which engages and motivates learners in learning how to respond to an emergency evacuation. Through this integration, the game explores not only the pedagogy of next-generation learning environments, but also how high-fidelity serious games can be adapted, designed, and personalised to meet learner needs.
The project is funded by the European Union under Framework 7.
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