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AVI
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Gameplay on a multitouch screen to foster learning about historical sites
The use of gameplay has been shown to be an excellent educational tool, especially if such games are supported by innovative and engaging technologies. This paper presents two new...
Carmelo Ardito, Maria Francesca Costabile, Rosa La...
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Reasoning about vague topological information
Topological information plays a fundamental role in the human perception of spatial configurations and is thereby one of the most prominent geographical features in natural langu...
Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
Everything I needed to know about teaching I learned in kindergarten: bringing elementary education techniques to undergraduate
By expanding the teaching styles used in computer science classrooms, we can expand the audience of students that enjoy and excel in technology. Rather than focusing on major curr...
Shannon Pollard, Robert C. Duvall
HUC
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
It's not all about "Green": energy use in low-income communities
Personal energy consumption, specifically home energy consumption such as heating, cooling, and electricity, has been an important environmental and economic topic for decades. De...
Tawanna Dillahunt, Jennifer Mankoff, Eric Paulos, ...
ACMDIS
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
"It's Just a Method!": a pedagogical experiment in interdisciplinary design
In the excitement of the cognitive revolution, Simon proposed a way of thinking about design that promised to make it more manageable and cognitive: to think of design as a planni...
Steve R. Harrison, Maribeth Back, Deborah G. Tatar