TY - GEN
T1 - Heuristics Evaluation of Preschool Cognitive Skills Learning System
AU - Abbas, Muhammad Azeem
AU - Ahmad, Wan Fatimah Wan
AU - Kalid, Khairul Shafee
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The ubiquitous use of computer by children is highly perceptible in current research. Therefore, providing the increasing interaction to computer technologies demands a careful designing of these technologies keeping in view the pedagogical aspects, psychology, abilities and interests of the children. These requirements make development of such applications a very complex job. Therefore, existing applications follow the content delivery model i.e. previously crafted contents are stored to deliver to a user. This limits the effective learning of the children. The present work proposed a rule-based system utilizing semantic web technologies (Ontologies) as a domain knowledge and semantic web rule language (SWRL) for rules representation. The proposed system overcomes the complexity of developing the intelligent and interactive applications for children. Evaluation is performed by using formal usability evaluation heuristics over an application developed using our proposed system for preschool cognitive skills tutoring. Results provided here demonstrates that the underlying knowledge modeled through the use of Ontologies is highly supported to flexible and child-friendly interfaces and pedagogical and playability activities (motor, reasoning) for cognitive skills tutoring.
AB - The ubiquitous use of computer by children is highly perceptible in current research. Therefore, providing the increasing interaction to computer technologies demands a careful designing of these technologies keeping in view the pedagogical aspects, psychology, abilities and interests of the children. These requirements make development of such applications a very complex job. Therefore, existing applications follow the content delivery model i.e. previously crafted contents are stored to deliver to a user. This limits the effective learning of the children. The present work proposed a rule-based system utilizing semantic web technologies (Ontologies) as a domain knowledge and semantic web rule language (SWRL) for rules representation. The proposed system overcomes the complexity of developing the intelligent and interactive applications for children. Evaluation is performed by using formal usability evaluation heuristics over an application developed using our proposed system for preschool cognitive skills tutoring. Results provided here demonstrates that the underlying knowledge modeled through the use of Ontologies is highly supported to flexible and child-friendly interfaces and pedagogical and playability activities (motor, reasoning) for cognitive skills tutoring.
KW - Intelligent Tutoring System
KW - Ontology
KW - Semantic Web
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84887107548
UR - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-02958-0_61
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-02958-0_61
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-02958-0_61
M3 - Conference publication
AN - SCOPUS:84887107548
SN - 9783319029573
VL - 8237
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 671
EP - 682
BT - Advances in Visual Informatics - Third International Visual Informatics Conference, IVIC 2013, Proceedings
PB - Springer
T2 - 3rd International Visual Informatics Conference, IVIC 2013
Y2 - 13 November 2013 through 15 November 2013
ER -