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BCSHCI
2008
13 years 6 months ago
SMART: a SysteM of Augmented Reality for Teaching 2nd grade students
In this paper, we describe the design and evaluation of SMART, an educational system that uses augmented reality for teaching 2nd grade-level concepts, adequate and integrated wit...
Rubina Freitas, Pedro Campos
ICFP
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A functional I/O system or, fun for freshman kids
Functional programming languages ought to play a central role in mathematics education for middle schools (age range: 10?14). After all, functional programming is a form of algebr...
Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew ...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Taking the time to care: empowering low health literacy hospital patients with virtual nurse agents
Ninety million Americans have inadequate health literacy, resulting in a reduced ability to read and follow directions in the healthcare environment. We describe an animated, empa...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Brian W. Ja...
AVI
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Agent warp engine: formula based shape warping for networked applications
Computer visualization and networking have advanced dramatically over the last few years, partially driven by the exploding video game market. 3D hardware acceleration has reached...
Alexander Repenning, Andri Ioannidou
C5
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Scratch: A Sneak Preview
information technologies as "the ability to reformulate knowledge, to express oneself creatively and appropriately, and to produce and generate information (rather than simply...
John Maloney, Leo Burd, Yasmin B. Kafai, Natalie R...