Bringing Authoring Tools for Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Serious Games Closer Together: Integrating GIFT with the Unity Game Engine

In an effort to bring intelligent tutoring system (ITS) authoring tools closer to content authoring tools, the authors are working to integrate GIFT with the Unity game engine and editor. The paper begins by describing challenges faced by modern intelligent tutors and the motivation behind the integration effort, with special consideration given to how this work will better meet the needs of future serious games. The next three sections expand on these major hurdles more thoroughly, followed by proposed design enhancements that would allow GIFT to overcome these issues. Finally, an overview is given of the authors’ current progress towards implementing the proposed design. The key contribution of this work is an abstraction of the interface between intelligent tutoring systems and serious games, thus enabling ITS authors to implement more complex training behaviors

A phylogeny of Central African <i>Boaedon</i> (Serpentes: Lamprophiidae), with the description of a new cryptic species from the Albertine Rift

<div><p></p><p>The Central African house snake <i>Boaedon olivaceus</i> has a large distribution from the forests of West Africa to Mabira Forest in Uganda. We sequenced two mitochondrial (cyt <i>b</i> and ND4) and two nuclear (c-mos and RAG1) genes from several populations of <i>B. olivaceus</i> in Central Africa and recovered two highly divergent lineages (Congo Basin and Albertine Rift) attributable to this species. Dating analyses with BEAST suggest the two lineages last shared a common ancestor during the mid-Miocene approximately 12 million years ago, and data from RAG1 showed consistent differences in two amino acids for topotypic Congo Basin <i>B. olivaceus</i> compared to the Albertine Rift lineage and all other examined species of <i>Boaedon</i>. Based on these striking molecular differences and significant differences in ventral scale counts and the number of supralabials contacting the eye, we describe the Albertine Rift lineage as a new species. The recognition of this new species bolsters the importance of the Albertine Rift as an important region for endemism and conservation in continental Africa. Based on the results of our phylogenetic analyses, the poorly known taxon <i>Lycodonomorphus subtaeniatus upembae</i> is elevated to full species status and transferred to the genus <i>Boaedon</i>. <a href="http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D0C0E5B5-DBE9-4D21-B5FE-86221DDF60BA" target="_blank">http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D0C0E5B5-DBE9-4D21-B5FE-86221DDF60BA</a></p></div

Diurnality_6gene.part1.Yule

Input file for BEAST analyse

BiSSE_Pruned_BEAST_phylogeny

Terminally-unresolved generic-level tree for BiSSE analyses. Outgroups have been removed

Diurnality_6gene_data

Aligned DNA sequence data in nexus format

Castaneus_Morphometric_Data

Microsoft Excel file with individual measurements of all specimens used in the publication. For abbreviations, see text of the paper

BayesTraits_binary.data

Trait data - 2 character states -for Bayestraits analyses

BiSSE_unresolved_data

Trait data for BiSSE analyses using terminally-unresolved generic-level tree

Squirrel Alignment

Squirrel Alignmen

Draco Alignment

Draco Alignmen