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IVA
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Virtual Patients for Clinical Therapist Skills Training
Virtual humans offer an exciting and powerful potential for rich interactive experiences. Fully embodied virtual humans are growing in capability, ease, and utility. As a result, t...
Patrick G. Kenny, Thomas D. Parsons, Jonathan Grat...
JCDL
2005
ACM
80views Education» more  JCDL 2005»
15 years 3 months ago
Integrating collections at the cervantes project
Unlike many efforts that focus on supporting scholarly research by developing large-scale, general resources for a wide range of audiences, we at the Cervantes Project have chosen...
Neal Audenaert, Richard Furuta, Eduardo Urbina, Ji...
HCI
2009
14 years 7 months ago
Interactive Demonstration of Pointing Gestures for Virtual Trainers
Abstract. While interactive virtual humans are becoming widely used in education, training and delivery of instructions, building the animations required for such interactive chara...
Yazhou Huang, Marcelo Kallmann
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
211views Education» more  SIGCSE 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
Multimodal communication in the classroom: what does it mean for us?
Experimentation has shown that in-class educational technologies, by permitting anonymous, authored participation, can dramatically alter student communications in the classroom. ...
Tamara Denning, William G. Griswold, Beth Simon, M...
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
355views Education» more  SIGCSE 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
Why students with an apparent aptitude for computer science don't choose to major in computer science
The statistics show that the number of Computer Science majors is dropping across the United States. Possible reasons include a reduced number of jobs in the field, an incorrect p...
Lori Carter