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An evaluation of e-learning in Healthcare

Nikolaos Maris

As new technologies enable a radical transformation of the learning process, new learning approaches and techniques appear, and the need for quality assurance of all learning assets emerges. Although, the existing e-learning standards have managed to cover ...

IGI Global2011

The 3A Interaction Model and Relation-Based Recommender System

We live in a rapidly changing digital world marked by technological advances, and fraught with online information constantly growing thanks to the Internet revolution and the online social applications in particular. Formal learning acquired in traditional ...

EPFL2010

The 3A interaction model: towards bridging the gap between formal and informal learning

Denis Gillet, Na Li

This paper discusses the adoption of bottom-up social software tools in formal learning environments. This is believed to enhance the learning experience of today’s young generation characterized by being technology savvy and keen on social networking. As ...

IEEE Computer Society2010

Low-Resolution Ambient Awareness Tools for Educational Support

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Hamed Seiied Alavi, Khaled Bachour

We examine an approach in technology-enhanced learning that avoids deviation from existing pedagogical practices as these are often reluctant to change. This is accomplished by designing technology to augment learning activities that are already in common ...

2010

Using Social Software for Teamwork and Collaborative Project Management in Higher Education

Denis Gillet, Na Li

This paper discusses the potential role of social software in supporting teamwork and collaborative project management in higher education. Based on the fact that social software has been widely spread among young students nowadays, using it for collaborat ...

Springer2010

Perceptual learning in a nonretinotopic frame of reference

Michael Herzog, Thomas Otto

Perceptual learning is the ability to improve perception through practice. Perceptual learning is usually specific for the task and features learned. For example, improvements in performance for a certain stimulus do not transfer if the stimulus is rotated ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

Enhancement of Geomatics Education by Using Internet Based Techniques

Pierre-Yves Gilliéron, Bertrand Merminod, Arnaud Deshogues

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) has introduced the Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) in 2005. Since then, the number of teachers and users has increased rapidly. With more than 350 active courses hosted on Moodle for this ...

2010

Full-Body Avatar Control with Environment Awareness

Daniel Thalmann, Ronan Boulic, Manuel Peinado, Daniel Raunhardt, Damien Maupu

Interactive control of virtual characters through full-body movement requires accurately reproducing a performer's motion while accounting for surrounding obstacles. The authors' approach, based on a prioritized inverse kinematics solver, satisfies marker ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2009

Perceptual learning of bisection stimuli under roving: slow and largely specific

Michael Herzog, Thomas Otto

In perceptual learning, performance often improves within a short time if only one stimulus variant is presented, such as a line bisection stimulus with one outer-line-distance. However, performance stagnates if two bisection stimuli with two outer-line-di ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2008

Interactive spaces

Jeffrey Huang, Muriel Waldvogel

How do conceptions of space change with the infiltration of new elements of interactivity into our surroundings? What are the effects of digitalization on typological, tectonic and ornamental changes in contemporary architecture and cities? What are the ne ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2008