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2004
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Enabling Social Dimensions of Learning through a Persistent, Unified, Massively Multi-User, and Self-Organizing Virtual Environm
Existing online learning experiences lack the social dimension that characterizes learning in the real world. This social dimension extends beyond the traditional classroom into t...
Julian Lombardi, Mark P. McCahill
CHI
2000
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
The social life of small graphical chat spaces
This paper provides a unique quantitative analysis of the social dynamics of three chat rooms in the Microsoft VChat graphical chat system. Survey and behavioral data were used to...
Marc A. Smith, Shelly Farnham, Steven M. Drucker
HT
2000
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Making a successful case for a hypertextual doctoral dissertation
In August of 1998 I completed the first hypertextual dissertation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The dissertation was a case study applying methods of rhetorical analysis an...
Christine Boese
AICI
2010
14 years 10 months ago
A Cell-Phone Based Brain-Computer Interface for Communication in Daily Life
Moving a brain-computer interface from a laboratory demonstration to real-life applications poses severe challenges to the BCI community. Recently, with advances in the biomedical ...
Yu-Te Wang, Yijun Wang, Tzyy-Ping Jung
ACE
2004
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15 years 21 days ago
Facilitating Successful Online Computing Courses While Minimising Extra Tutor Workload
A key problem in facilitating a successful online course is the highly time -consuming nature of the administrative and pedagogical tasks involved. It is also difficult to achieve...
Stuart Young, Mae McSporran