This paper discusses the use of mind maps by interdisciplinary teams of students during a collaborative design activity. In the context of a Graduate Diploma program aiming to train specialists in eco-design strategy, we seek to offer pedagogical content, delivery methods, and tools that integrate theory and praxis and help students to co-construct new knowledge. A project-based studio was desi...

Mind-maps have not received much attention in the user modeling and recommender system community, although they contain lots of information that could be valuable for user modeling and recommender systems. For this paper, we explored the effectiveness of standard user modeling approaches applied to mind-maps, and developed novel user modeling approaches that consider the unique characteristics ...

Mind maps are used by millions of people. In this paper we present how information retrieval on mind maps could be used to enhance expert search, document summarization, keyword based search engines, document recommender systems and determining word relatedness. For instance, words in a mind map could be used for creating a skill profile of the mind maps’ author and hence enhance expert search....

Two groups of freshman students, enrolled in their first writing course in EFL, participated in the study. Before instruction, no significant differences were found between both groups in their writing ability. Both groups were exposed to the same in-class writing instruction. Since students have difficulty generating ideas in EFL, writing paragraphs with topic sentences and supporting details,...

Mind mapping is an important graphic thinking tool at present, which can show the objective intuitively and has strong logicality. The rational application of mind map in aerospace military project management also value. This paper focuses on effective management, be used for future level.

Given our inherent mobility, wayfinding can be described as one of the earliest human activities. In a simple environment, the human mind is capable of generating a cognitive map or “the internal spatial representation of environmental information” (Golledge, 1999). Within a complex environment, an internal cognitive map alone may not allow the user to have a successful wayfinding experience an...

This contribution reports on ongoing collaborative research at the University of Stanford, Department of Psychology, and the University of Hamburg, Department for Informatics. Extending the research on the effects of static vs. dynamic route presentation on perception and memory (Klippel et al., 2002), we examined different route presentation methods that are commonly used today (e.g. internet ...

• We tested intergroup mind perception with morphs between human and inanimate faces. • Participants had more lenient thresholds for perceiving minds in in-group faces. • Individual differences in collective identification moderated this bias. • Out-group threat was associated with lenient out-group mind perception. • Mind perception depends on contextual information in addition to bottom-up cues.

This chapter describes how a mind mapping tool, Compendium, is being used to help designers and teachers create and share learning activities. Initial evaluation of the use of the tool for learning design has been positive; users report that it is easy to use and helps them organise and articulate their learning designs. Importantly the tool also enables them to share and discuss their design s...