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CATE
2004
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Maximising Dialogue in Lectures using Group Response Systems
Laurillard sees dialogue as a crucial component of learning and she states that it is almost impossible to achieve in lectures. This paper identifies eight impediments to dialogue...
Quintin I. Cutts, Gregor E. Kennedy, Chris Mitchel...
CSL
2012
Springer
12 years 28 days ago
Reinforcement learning for parameter estimation in statistical spoken dialogue systems
Reinforcement techniques have been successfully used to maximise the expected cumulative reward of statistical dialogue systems. Typically, reinforcement learning is used to estim...
Filip Jurcícek, Blaise Thomson, Steve Young
BNCOD
2004
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Gauging Students' Understanding Through Interactive Lectures
Abstract. The Personal Response System (PRS) enables audience responses to multiple choice questions to be collected quickly, and for a summary of all the answers to be displayed t...
Helen C. Purchase, Christopher Mitchell, Iadh Ouni...
SAC
2009
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Autonomous networked robots for the establishment of wireless communication in uncertain emergency response scenarios
During a disaster, emergency response operations can benefit from the establishment of a wireless ad hoc network. We propose the use of autonomous robots that move inside a disas...
Stelios Timotheou, Georgios Loukas
ITICSE
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Using interactive technology in a short java course: an experience report
Keeping students alert and responsive during lectures is a challenge even for experienced teachers in small group settings. Research has shown the importance of student participat...
Roberto E. Lopez-Herrejon, Morrie Schulman