A Serious Game Powered by Semantic Web technologies

Abstract

ISCOOL is an interactive educational platform that helps users develop their skills for objective text analysis and interpretation. The tools incorporated into ISCOOL bridge various disparate sources, including reference datasets for people, and organizations, as well as gazetteers, dictionaries and collections of historical facts. This data serves as the basis for educating learners about the processes of evaluating the implicit and implied content of written material, whilst also providing a wider context in which this information is accessed, interpreted and understood. In the course of gameplay, the user is prompted to choose images that best capture content of a read passage. The interactive features of the game simultaneously test the user's existing knowledge, and ability to critically analyse the text. Results can be saved and shared, allowing the players to continue to interact with the data through conversations with their peers, friends, and family members, and to disseminate information throughout their communities. Users will be able to draw connections between the information they encounter in ISCOOL, and their daily realities -participants are empowered, informed and educated.

Enrichment of Geographic Information Based on Gazetteers

“…In recent years, several online approaches have been developed to support distance education, many of which have only been possible due to the development of semantic technologies and the adaption of existing tools to a dynamic hypertext environment. To cite a familiar example, the traditional highlighter pen was reimagined as an online version to support students enrolled in online courses [Nunes et al, 2015b]. The online highlighter pen has several advantages over the original one: it can be shared between students, used to improve course contents and serve as an anchor to link to new resources on the Web.…”

“…Another approach [Nunes et al, 2014a, Nunes et al, 2014b uses extracted topics from forum posts to recommend other discussions that may enrich the current one. ISCOOL [Nunes et al, 2015b], an interactive educational platform that helps users develop their skills for objective text analysis and interpretation, uses similar methods to retrieve images from search engines to help and support students in text interpretation and analysis.…”

ISCOOL -- Interpretação de Textos através de Imagens e Tecnologias Semânticas

“…Atualmente, cada jogador deve introduzir um texto e o jogoé gerado automaticamente, contudo prevemos a criação de um processo semi-automático onde o criador da tarefa poderá pré-selecionar imagens, corretas ou não. [Nunes et al 2015a]. A ferramenta está disponível em http://research.…”