Copy right Idea Grou p Inc . Copy right Idea Grou p Inc . INTRODUCTION A college graduate has to be computer literate in order to gain competitive edge in today’s business world since information technology, ranging from the basic word processing software to the complex data base management systems, is used constantly to prepare, present, and exchange information for management decision making....

The theory-driven Electronic Health Information for LifeLong Learners via Collaborative Learning (eHILLL-CL) intervention, developed and tested in public libraries, aims to improve older adults’ e-health literacy. A total of 172 older adults participated in this study from August 2009 to June 2010. Significant differences were found from pretest to posttest in general computer/Web knowledge and...

Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA) are computer-animated characters that simulate face-to-face conversation with patients. These agents can be programmed with best practices in human-human health communication and used for automated health education and behavior change counseling interventions. Evidence is presented from two ongoing clinical trials demonstrating that patients at different lev...

Emergent literacy consists of the skills, knowledge, and attitudes that are developmental precursors to reading and writing. This article offers a preliminary typology of children's emergent literacy skills, a review of the evidence that relates emergent literacy to reading, and a review of the evidence for linkage between children's emergent literacy environments and the development of emergen...

OBJECTIVE The Dietary Intake Monitoring Application (DIMA) is an electronic dietary self-monitor developed for use on a personal digital assistant (PDA). This paper describes how computer, information, numerical, and visual literacy were considered in development of DIMA. METHODS An iterative, participatory design approach was used. Forty individuals receiving hemodialysis at an urban inner-c...

This paper outlines the key components of technical literacy, explaining their relationship to classic computer science and artificial intelligence curriculum. We then describe an international educational initiative called RoboCupJunior and outline related work examining the (human) learning aspects of educational team robotics. Through examples, we show how the RoboCupJunior paradigm has been...

This study aims to explore the perspective of adult participants from the rural areas on computer literacy program performance in terms of the cognitive domain, affective domain and skills based on gender, age and socioeconomic status. The study employed a questionnaire with five point Likert scale to collect data. This study uses Hammond and Collin’s (1991) model of evaluation, which contains ...