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EXPERT
2011
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13 years 5 months ago
Offloading Cognition onto the Web
: In modeling human cognitive capacity there is a question of what needs to be built  in and what can be left out, because we can offload it onto cogni...
Leslie Carr, Stevan Harnad
EDM
2009
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13 years 8 months ago
Subspace Clustering of Skill Mastery: Identifying Skills that Separate Students
Abstract. In educational research, a fundamental goal is identifying which skills students have mastered, which skills they have not, and which skills they are in the process of ma...
Rebecca Nugent, Elizabeth Ayers, Nema Dean
OTM
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Composing Near-Optimal Expert Teams: A Trade-Off between Skills and Connectivity
Abstract. Rapidly changing business requirements necessitate the adhoc composition of expert teams to handle complex business cases. Expertcentric properties such as skills, howeve...
Christoph Dorn, Schahram Dustdar
IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
How Turn-Taking Strategies Influence Users' Impressions of an Agent
Abstract. Different turn-taking strategies of an agent influence the impression that people have of it. We recorded conversations of a human with an interviewing agent, controlled ...
Mark ter Maat, Khiet P. Truong, Dirk Heylen
ISF
2008
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13 years 10 months ago
Information technology workforce skills: The software and IT services provider perspective
It is now commonplace for an organization to turn to external firms for the provision of IT services and software. As technology advances and the business environment continues to ...
Tim Goles, Stephen Hawk, Kate M. Kaiser
BNCOD
2004
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14 years 7 days ago
Teaching SQL - Which Pedagogical Horse for This Course?
A student with a Computing Science degree is expected to have reached a reasonable level of expertise in SQL. SQL is a non-trivial skill to master and is taught with different degr...
Karen Renaud, Judy van Biljon
EDM
2008
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14 years 9 days ago
Using Item-type Performance Covariance to Improve the Skill Model of an Existing Tutor
Using data from an existing pre-algebra computer-based tutor, we analyzed the covariance of item-types with the goal of describing a more effective way to assign skill labels to it...
Philip I. Pavlik, Hao Cen, Lili Wu, Kenneth R. Koe...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Understanding of positioning skill based on feedforward / feedback switched dynamical model
— To realize the harmonious cooperation with the operator, the man-machine cooperative system must be designed so as to accommodate with the characteristics of the operator’s s...
Hiroyuki Okuda, Hidenori Takeuchi, Shinkichi Inaga...