An Intelligent Collaborative Virtual Environment for Team Training -- A Preliminary Report

The computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) is a paradigm that can be viewed as an evolution of individual learning done in intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) and learning environments (LE) to a group learning environments. In this paper a team training strategy (TTS) is described, which involves the use of an intelligent collaborative virtual environment (ICVE) that incorporates a pedagogical virtual agent (PVA) to assist the group during the execution stage. We are developing an ICVE to support the requirements of each phase of the TTS; in this report we describe the advances and the ongoing work of the ICVE