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2001
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Using Characters to Engage and Teach Novice Web Users: A Case Study
Starpoint Solutions was contracted by a major North American bank to design, develop, and usability test a series of five Web-based, interactive lessons teaching low- to middle-in...
Andrea H. Berman
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
The impact of instructor initiative on student learning: a tutoring study
In the quest to find instructional approaches that benefit student learning, engagement, and retention, evidence suggests providing students with hands-on practice is a worthwhile...
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, Michael D...
ACMACE
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
How real should virtual characters be?
In recent years 3D virtual characters have become more common in desktop interfaces, particularly in gaming and entertainment applications. In this paper we describe how augmented...
Daniel Wagner, Mark Billinghurst, Dieter Schmalsti...
ESWS
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Interactive Ontology-Based User Knowledge Acquisition: A Case Study
On the Semantic Web personalization technologies are needed to deal with user diversity. Our research aims at maximising the automation of acquisition of user knowledge, thus provi...
Lora Aroyo, Ronald Denaux, Vania Dimitrova, Michae...
JCIT
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Analysis and Implementation of M-commerce in Education for Developing Countries (Uzbekistan case)
M-commerce is one of the ways IT can significantly contribute to boosting economy of the developing countries. M-commerce project has a high potential in the developing countries ...
Olga Yugay, Aleksey Semyonov, Il Seok Ko, Sarvar R...