A multimedia learning application for undergraduates in Computer Science: The design, development and usability

Rias, Riaza Mohd; Abdullah, Munira; Salam, Nurul Hazra Abdul

doi:10.1109/iceed.2011.6235383

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“…(Biswas et al 2009) Other recent agents that incorporate complex Natural Language Processing and collaborative possibilites are the following: Pascall (Da Costa Pinho et al 2013), an agent which uses text mining to build a synchronous online discussion to teach foreign languages; an agent (Kühne et al 2013) to teach medicine topics using linguistic alignment; an agent (Hayashi, 2013) to support collaborative learning; Men-torChat (Tegos et al 2014) which follows an adaptive methodology to assist students in the CALL domain; and, Metabots (Griol et al 2014) which are embodied conversational agents in SecondLife integrated with Moodle used in several University courses. All these agents provide better interaction teaching possibilities, as usability studies prove (Rias et al 2014), although the conversation is still far from being as natural as a conversation between a human (Holmes, 2007) teacher and a student, and it is necessary some input or review from the teachers.…”

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A Procedure to Engage Children in the Morphological and Syntax Analysis of Pedagogic Conversational Agent-Generated Sentences to Study Language

Marín

2015

International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design

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Pedagogic Conversational Agents are computer applications that interact with the students in natural language. They usually focus the dialogue on a certain topic under study. In this paper, the authors propose the possibility of children studying morphology and syntax by using a Pedagogic Conversational Agent. The main benefit is that the agent is able to generate an infinite number of sentences and, it automatically generates the morphological and syntactical analysis from a given grammar. That way, students can practise with all the sentences they need, receive immediate feedback with automatic evaluation, at their own rhythm and, the level of difficulty can be adapted to their particular competence of analysis. Given the originality of this new computer assisted learning initiative, the authors have devised a procedure to engage the students in the dialogue with the agent to carry out the morphological and syntax analysis at five different levels of difficulty, and test the validity of the approach with a limited number of users according to the principles of User-Centered Design. The results gathered provide evidence of the goodness of the procedure and, they encourage us to keep working on this promising field of using pedagogic agents as computer teaching language assistants.

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A Procedure to Engage Children in the Morphological and Syntax Analysis of Pedagogic Conversational Agent-Generated Sentences to Study Language

Marín

2015

International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design

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A classification of eLearning tools based on the applied multimedia

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Multimed Tools Appl

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Academic methods for usability evaluation of serious games: a systematic review

Yáñez-Gómez

Cascado-Caballero

Sevillano

2016

Multimed Tools Appl

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In the last years, there has been an increasing interest in the design of video games as a tool for education, training, health promotion, socialization, etc. Usability, which is a key factor in any video game, becomes even more important in these so-called Bserious games^, where the users' special characteristics should be considered, and the game efficacy depends on the users' adherence and engagement. However, evaluation of the usability of this kind of games requires a redefinition of techniques, methods and even terminology. In this paper, we elicit six research questions and conduct a systematic review of the scientific literature, which resulted in the selection of 187 papers that contained the most relevant responses. The conclusions of this systematic review illustrate the general status of current academic usability evaluations of these games and the main trends in the selection of methodologies and how are they applied. This view may be a very valuable foundation for future research.

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A multimedia learning application for undergraduates in Computer Science: The design, development and usability

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

A Procedure to Engage Children in the Morphological and Syntax Analysis of Pedagogic Conversational Agent-Generated Sentences to Study Language

A Procedure to Engage Children in the Morphological and Syntax Analysis of Pedagogic Conversational Agent-Generated Sentences to Study Language

A classification of eLearning tools based on the applied multimedia

Academic methods for usability evaluation of serious games: a systematic review

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