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VSGAMES
2010
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13 years 10 months ago
Attentional Cueing in Serious Games
—Games, and serious games especially, revolve around learning new material and integrating this into a mental model. However, playing games can be cognitively demanding and novic...
Erik D. Van der Spek, Herre van Oostendorp, Pieter...
JUCS
2002
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14 years 3 days ago
Mental Models to Represent Dynamics - Using the Example "factorial"
: To use hypertext/hypermedia elements in teaching at universities an author not only needs knowledge of the technological possibilities. In addition he/she has to renew a here so ...
Gisbert Dittrich
JITE
2006
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14 years 12 days ago
On the Design and Development of a UML-Based Visual Environment for Novice Programmers
learning abstract computer concepts. In addition, visualization helps novices construct a mental model of concepts, which is pivotal to further comprehension and understanding. Sec...
Brian D. Moor, Fadi P. Deek
APVIS
2009
14 years 1 months ago
Toward effective insight management in visual analytics systems
Although significant progress has been made toward effective insight discovery in visual sense making approaches, there is a lack of effective and efficient approaches to manage t...
Yang Chen, Jing Yang, William Ribarsky
INTERACT
2003
14 years 1 months ago
How Blind Users' Mental Models Affect Their Perceived Usability of an Unfamiliar Screen Reader
: This study investigates blind users’ mental models of Windows environment and their strategies in coping with new desktops and applications. The relationship between users’ m...
Sri Hastuti Kurniawan, Alistair G. Sutcliffe, Paul...
AAAI
2006
14 years 1 months ago
Multiparty Proactive Communication: A Perspective for Evolving Shared Mental Models
Helping behavior in effective teams is enabled by some overlapping "shared mental models" that are developed and maintained by members of the team. In this paper, we tak...
Kaivan Kamali, Xiaocong Fan, John Yen
AAAI
2007
14 years 2 months ago
Minimal Mental Models
Agents must form and update mental models about each other in a wide range of domains: team coordination, plan recognition, social simulation, user modeling, games of incomplete i...
David V. Pynadath, Stacy Marsella
ITICSE
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Helping students build a mental model of computation
Introductory computer science classes are known for having a high attrition rate. Some authors believe this is due to students’ difficulties in establishing a mental model of co...
Steve Kollmansberger
ICCHP
2010
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Mental Models of Menu Structures in Diabetes Assistants
Abstract. Demographic change in regard to an aging population with an increasing amount of diabetes patients will put a strain on health care rentability in all modern societies. E...
André Calero Valdez, Martina Ziefle, Firat ...
SPATIALCOGNITION
1998
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Mental Models in Spatial Reasoning
This chapter gives an overview of our ongoing experimental research in the MeMoSpace project, concerning the cognitive processes underlying human spatial reasoning. Our theoretical...
Markus Knauff, Reinhold Rauh, Christoph Schlieder,...