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ECTEL
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
CoChemEx: Supporting Conceptual Chemistry Learning Via Computer-Mediated Collaboration Scripts
Chemistry students, like students in other disciplines, often learn to solve problems by applying well-practiced procedures. Such an approach, however, may hinder conceptual unders...
Dimitra Tsovaltzi, Nikol Rummel, Niels Pinkwart, A...
IVA
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Predicting User Psychological Characteristics from Interactions with Empathetic Virtual Agents
Enabling virtual agents to quickly and accurately infer users’ psychological characteristics such as their personality could support a broad range of applications in education, t...
Jennifer L. Robison, Jonathan P. Rowe, Scott W. Mc...
VRML
1999
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
VR-LAB - A Distributed Multi-User Environment for Educational Purposes and Presentations
Distributed work is becoming a major issue for a large part of the work force and distributed collaborative research has almost become the norm. Consequently, distributed communic...
Dieter W. Fellner, Armin Hopp
HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Using Collaborative Haptics in Remote Surgical Training
We describe the design and trial of a remotely conducted surgical master class, using a haptic virtual environment as an integral part of the learning process. In the trial, we li...
Chris Gunn, Matthew A. Hutchins, Duncan Stevenson,...
ITICSE
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Xen worlds: leveraging virtualization in distance education
The Xen Worlds project at Iowa State University was designed to provide a virtualized lab environment for the Information Assurance program. The large number of off-campus student...
Benjamin R. Anderson, Amy K. Joines, Thomas E. Dan...