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Theory of "embodied cognition" suggests that a variety of mental activities are reflected in states of the body, such as postures, arm movements and facial expressions. The present study investigates the extent to which profiles of computer users -- their gender, feelings, and emotional experience -- can be assessed from movements of computer cursors. In one experiment, participants (N =...
This research is about how to create an educational video game whose main purpose is to stimulate logical and spatial reasoning of children. For this goal, we have applied an incremental methodology in order to be able to produce a Massive Multiplayer Online Game. With the intention of incorporating operations necessary for cognitive development and simultaneously to control the mechanics of the video...
In this paper, we show how computational methods can help attaining uniformity in interpretation, a valuable asset in the legal field, and even a duty itself in our use case of choice: the 1980 Vienna Sales Convention (CISG). We investigate the common ground between traditional and computational models and describe some tools for the representation and interpretation of the CISG terminology that can...
On the ground of reflection of learning and characteristic of study in mainland China, knowledge building integrating study of cognition and power of technology was taken as a new method which can give students more space to develop their ability. To change students' negative learning attitudes in ICT course in junior middle school, knowledge building was practiced by 2-step focusing on project-based...
In electronic commerce markets, agents often should acquire multiple resources to fulfill a high-level task. In order to attain such resources they need to compete with each other. In multi-agent environments, in which competition is involved, negotiation would be an interaction between agents in order to reach an agreement on resource allocation and to be coordinated with each other. During recent...
Cognitive testing is concerned with quantitative and qualitative evaluation of an individual's intellectual functioning in its broad sense. Tests for evaluating cognitive components are based on submitting the subject to a given task and then assessing performance according to an established set of reference parameters. In order to analyze subject's behavior and test results, a software tool was developed...
In this paper we present our approach in the field of Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS), in fact the risk of dropping out for learners have emerged as crucial issues to be solved. So it is necessary to ensure an individualized and continuous learner's follow-up during learning process. Several research effort has been spent on the development of ITS. However the available literature does not generally...
Traditional resource model based on distributed cognition mainly includes two major parts, which are resource information structure and resource information interaction. To improve this models capability in resource description and practical application, the description of resource in this model is to be classified by two categories, which are the forward resource information structure and backward...
Epimenides is a system that can be used in the context of digital archives and digital libraries for helping archivists in checking whether the archived digital artifacts remain intelligible and functional, and in identifying the consequences of probable losses. A distinctive feature of Epimenides is that it can model also converters and emulators, and the adopted modelling approach enables the automatic...
Self-explanation is one cognitive strategy through which developers comprehend error notifications. Self-explanation, when left solely to developers, can result in a significant loss of productivity because humans are imperfect and bounded in their cognitive abilities. We argue that modern IDEs offer limited visual affordances for aiding developers with self-explanation, because compilers do not reveal...
Computer Interpretable Guidelines (CIG) are an emerging area of research, to support medical decision making through evidence-based recommendations. However, new challenges in the data management field have to be faced, to integrate CIG management with a proper treatment of patient data, and of other forms of medical knowledge. The GINSENG (GuIdeliNe SEcoNd Generation) project aims at setting the...
A concept of the Semantic Web provides a frame-work for development of systems with higher levels of usability, operability and independence. One of the most intriguing ideas of this new paradigm is related to the vision of web systems requiring minimal involvement of humans in activities related to a pre-selection and eventually selection of most promising alternatives among all obtained options...
The externalist philosophy refers to the theories of Incorporating Mind (Embodiment) and Enaction. Embodiment is essentially how we act through the technology and enaction is the idea that an organism creates its own experience through their actions, based on physical and social experiences with the world. In order to narrow the gap between men and technology, this article aims to provide new heuristics...
Learning agents are a useful concept for agent-based simulation. The learning ability increases the autonomy of agents, which may lead them to unforeseen results on the individual (micro) and group (macro) level. Learning is even required to be successful in human complex systems, for which an adaptation to environmental changes is necessary. However, learning agents are considered as complex and...
Amongst Ambient Intelligence (AmI) services in the home environment is improving the quality of life through increasing the comfort levels of the users. One of the ways to meet user-friendly comfort requirements of an intelligent space is to establish more natural ways of interaction and hence a more serene communication between the humans and the intelligent systems. Inspired from the remarkable...
Cyberloafing, defined as non-work-related Internet use during work hours, has brought about considerable loss of both employees' performance and organization's profits all over the world. Accordingly, more and more researchers have tried to explore the predictors of cyberloafing. While most researchers pay attention to some organization conditions or personal emotions, we suppose some personal characteristics...
This paper proposes the use of digital ink, along with task analysis techniques as an enhanced method to assess individuals. The use of digital ink for evaluation purposes allows access to additional data, beyond the actual written answers. Such information may be used to complement and enrich assessments, as well as allowing automatic data analysis techniques to be used on the stored data. This work...
Any activity in a computer-supported cooperative working environment produces a set of traces. In a collaborative working context, such traces may be very voluminous and heterogeneous. They reflect all the interactive actions among the actors themselves and between the actors and the system. This paper examines what is required to exploit traces in the context of a collaborative working environment...
Olkun defines spatial reasoning as “the mental manipulation of objects and their parts in 2D and 3D space.” In a previous study, the author found that physical model building increased student spatial reasoning by 12% on average, as compared to drawing the same topic as an axonometric drawing. To further this study, this paper will examine the effect of two different types of model building exercises...
Negotiation always plays an important role in multiagent system research. How to establish an effective negotiation model to improve the ability of negotiation of the agent is one of problems solved in multi-agent system. Based on answer set programs, this paper presents a new method about how to express the negotiation demands and how to establish answer set program of negotiation, and puts forward...
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