@inproceedings{f47e151521d6470d917a3a289e63e1a0,
title = "Teaching with Rewards and Punishments: Reinforcement or Communication?",
abstract = "Teaching with evaluative feedback involves expectations about how a learner will interpret rewards and punishments. We formalize two hypotheses of how a teacher implicitly expects a learner to interpret feedback - a reward-maximizing model based on standard reinforcement learning and an action-feedback model based on research on communicative intent - and describe a virtual animal-training task that distinguishes the two. The results of two experiments in which people gave learners feedback for isolated actions (Exp. 1) or while learning over time (Exp. 2) support the action-feedback model over the reward-maximizing model.",
keywords = "communication, evaluative feedback, feedback, pedagogy, punishment, reinforcement learning, reward",
author = "Ho, {Mark K.} and Littman, {Michael L.} and Fiery Cushman and Austerweil, {Joseph L.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015.All rights reserved.; 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Mind, Technology, and Society, CogSci 2015 ; Conference date: 23-07-2015 Through 25-07-2015",
year = "2015",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015",
pages = "920--925",
editor = "Noelle, {David C.} and Rick Dale and Anne Warlaumont and Jeff Yoshimi and Teenie Matlock and Jennings, {Carolyn D.} and Maglio, {Paul P.}",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015",
}