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Educating children with autism is becoming a highly challenging task due to the nature of the disorder and limited interest of these children in interacting with people. Nevertheless, it is observed that most of the children with autism are good observers. This paper put forward and evaluates a novel teaching technique, Adapted Model-Rival Method (AMRM and a parrot-inspired robot for children with...
A lack of educational strategies may hinder students from benefiting the most from their education. The existing public or government schools do not adequately accommodate children with special needs in terms of providing them with good syllabuses as well interventions. Instead, various forms of pervasive developmental disorders are frequently placed in special education classes without an accurate...
Early intervention requires a comprehensive report and compilation of data from various assessments to confirm diagnoses and provide follow-up treatment suggestions. Previously, without the assistance of an information system for inputting and processing data, assessment data was compiled through e-mail communications. E-mailing back and forth and waiting for confirmation through phone calls reduced...
Educational mobile games can not only stimulate a child's interest in learning but also can promote and increase language development, critical thinking, emotional development, intelligence, and imagination. Therefore, educational games could be seen as having an important role to play in a child's development. This paper is an in-depth analysis on the effects of educational mobile games and the application...
In order to compare life satisfaction and mental health status of older adults in different living arrangements, we investigated a sample of 1, 915 Chinese older adults using Satisfaction with Life Scale and Mental Health Inventory for the Urban Elderly. Difference in life satisfaction between three living arrangements is significant even after controlling age, education and income. Life satisfaction...
To improve students' interaction in a collaborative learning environment to complete their tasks is very critical for developing students' social interaction. This study designed a system of Multi-robots to discuss processes of students' collaborative strategies and behavioral interaction by controlling robots under different scenarios to complete the dice-pushing tasks. As a result, students developed...
According to research the concept of the genetic algorithm and multidimensional item response theory, using the method o genetic algorithm, this paper propose basic principle of estimation of multidimensional item response, theory model in person ability, changes and take the place of the calculation procedure, and gives the program design method.
There are many indicators that can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of clinical pathway (CP). To choose a proper indicator, besides the characteristics of the disease, some social cultural factors have to be taken into consideration. According to the specialty of elective cesarean section and Chinese social and cultural characteristics, the measurement of "patient satisfaction" was...
In recent years, the students' psychological problems become more and more evident, and has become a common problem to be solved and concerned by the whole society. This paper analyzes the causes of the psychological problems of university students aspect from the five factors of students interpersonal, emotional distress, learning pressure and so on. And explores the solutions of the psychological...
Cultivating setback-resistant ability and happiness quality is becoming the weak point of cultivating volitional quality of the only child in modern times, which will directly influence his/her study, career as well as the happiness in the daily life and their whole life. Setback education carries out the study in a comprehensive and profound way on the ways and methods for cultivating happiness quality.
Technology is making a significant impact on modern education. Computer technology has been proposed to serve education in many papers. However, more and more teachers are complaining that students spend more time on the Internet rather than learning. It is the most head-breaking problem to parent that children addict to the Internet. Many people are going to extreme on coping with the main negative...
Computer-assisted instruction systems have been broadly applied to help students solving math word problems. However, these systems offer little help to students encountering multi-step arithmetic word problems that do not be stored in the predesigned database. MSWPAS is a computer simulation system of people's arithmetic multi-step addition and subtraction word problems behavior, which composed of...
The web-based autonomous learning is gaining momentum. Despite the abundant learning resources and the incomparable learning freedom it offers, the brand-new learning environment poses problems such as the establishment of learning goals, the designing of learning plans, the monitoring of learning processes and the evaluation of learning outcomes, which might create obstacles for successful web-based...
In this paper,we analyze characteristics and child-nursing views of single-children parents appeared in recent years and market requirements of parent-children products, put forward the design orientation and design principle of the parent-children product for infants aged from 0 to 3, and provide powerful guidance for the wide application of the parent-children product for infants aged from 0 to...
In this position paper, we will raise some critical issues on applying robotics technologies into the educational environment. The series of discussions are based on our previous study on toddlers - robots interaction at a nursery school. In reaction to the notice warning of its potential risk, we will present a scenario in which robots are employed with less ethical concern and more educational contribution.
A social validation methodology was applied across two cultures to examine the perceptions of resources on enhancing creativity based on Sternberg & Lubart's (1991) investment theory of creativity. The importance of six resources were rated and ranked by adults from China (n=190) and the United States (n=57). Both American and Chinese considered motivation as the most important resource for human...
Education of people with special needs has recently been considered as a key element in the field of medical education. Recent development in the area of information and communication technologies may enable development of collaborative interactive environments which facilitate early stage education and provide specialists with robust tools indicating the person's autism spectrum disorder level. Towards...
The use of video and audio on the web is now an integrated and established arena in tertiary education. Research emphasis for such web based video-audio teaching and learning experience has shifted towards enabling and enhancing userpsilas interaction, friendly navigation, collaborative learning and reflection. This paper examines EVA (Educational Video with collaborative Annotation), a web based...
Nowadays people in the area of e-learning contents development are paying attention to educational computer games, which utilize games in education for pleasant learning. In many respects, the relevant technologies are sufficiently sophisticated for ambitious game designs. However, design theory itself is lagging behind. This study purposes to analyze the status of current educational computer games,...
Several existing problems in childrenpsilas family education in China are analysed. Considering the basic factors of cooperative learning, several advantages of childrenpsilas cooperative learning in family are discussed. The basic cooperative learning models for family education that have four kind of basic forms are proposed. In cooperative learning process, parents are participator and organizer,...
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