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AMI
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Designing an Awareness Display for Senior Home Care Professionals
Home care professionals play a central role in supporting elderly people when they need help to continue living in their own homes. Using awareness systems, caregivers might better...
Martijn H. Vastenburg, Robbert J. Vroegindeweij
AMI
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Constructing Topological Maps of Displays with 3-D Positioning Information
Abstract. To better coordinate information displays with moving people and the environment, software must know the locations and three dimensional alignments of the display hardwar...
Donald J. Patterson
AMI
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Increased Robustness in Context Detection and Reasoning Using Uncertainty Measures: Concept and Application
This paper reports on a novel recurrent fuzzy classification method for robust detection of context activities in an environment using either single or distributed sensors. It als...
Martin Berchtold, Michael Beigl
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Interactive Paraphrase Training: The Development and Testing of an iSTART Module
Comprehension of science texts is challenging, particularly when the reader lacks the skills or knowledge necessary to fill in conceptual gaps in the text content. The iSTART syste...
Danielle S. McNamara, Chutima Boonthum, Christophe...
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Use of Semantics to Build an Academic Writing Community Environment
Writing a dissertation is a critical aspect of the learning experience for most university students in all disciplines. It is often accompanied by anxiety and uncertainty, which su...
Sirisha Bajanki, Kathrin Kaufhold, Alex Le Bek, Va...
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
From Conceptual Models to Agent-based Simulations: Why and How
The core problem we address in this paper is how to take a declarative conceptual representation of a complex system and produce an agent-based simulation of that model. In particu...
Swaroop Vattam, Ashok K. Goel, Spencer Rugaber, Ci...
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Adapting to Student Uncertainty Improves Tutoring Dialogues
This study shows that affect-adaptive computer tutoring can significantly improve performance on learning efficiency and user satisfaction. We compare two different student uncer...
Katherine Forbes-Riley, Diane J. Litman
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Granularity-Adaptive Proof Presentation
Marvin Schiller, Christoph Benzmüller
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Assessing Argument Diagrams in an Ill-defined Domain
This paper describes a study in which student-created diagrams about arguments in an ill-defined domain were manually graded by two independent human graders. Findings include that...
Niels Pinkwart, Collin Lynch, Kevin D. Ashley, Vin...
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Intelligent Learning Object Guide (iLOG): A Framework for Automatic Empirically-Based Metadata Generation
Abstract. We present a framework for the automatic annotation of learning objects (LOs) with empirical usage metadata. Our implementation of the Intelligent Learning Object Guide (...
S. A. Riley, Lee Dee Miller, Leen-Kiat Soh, Ashok ...