In this paper we describe the aims and requirements of a project devoted to designing and developing Open Source didactic Software (SW) for children in the autism disorder spectrum, conforming to the Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) learning technique. In this context, participatory design with therapists and child’s parents is necessary to ensure a usable product that responds to these childre...

In this paper we present a multi-user hypertextual glossary prototype which can improve the learning of a group (classroom) of university students in a multimedia environment. The glossary prototype has been designed to solve the typical problems encountered when using traditional electronic and printed glossaries: the authoring problem, the loss of reading context, the fact that glossaries are...

This project used the approach of "human situations" to teach about the cardiovascular system within an undergraduate physiology course (PGY 412). About two-thirds of the students had previously taken a college-level physiology course (sophisticated), whereas one-third had not (naive). Nine didactic lectures were organized around the common human situations of orthostasis, blood donation, and e...