Wayfinding is a basic activity people do throughout their entire lives as they navigate from one place to another. In order to create different spaces in such a way that they facilitate people’s wayfinding it is necessary to integrate principles of human spatial cognition into the design process. This paper presents a methodology to structure space based on experiental patterns, called image sc...

Each of the members of this working group is a strong proponent of including topics from the area called “formal methods” as a vital component of computing education at all levels. During our pre-conference preparations, the working group’s focus evolved to concentrate on providing mechanisms to allow the computing education community at large to more easily incorporate formal methods across th...

This paper empirically identifies the factors that restrict the Web infrastructure development process within UK Small Businesses. The paper provides a brief overview of the advantages and benefits that become available through the development of a commercial Web infrastructure, and notes that whilst these advantages and benefits are well documented, small businesses are often ill equipped to e...

This article investigates conditions for increasing active participation in on-line communities. As a case study, we use three generations of facilities designed to promote learning in the area of Educational Modelling Languages. Following a description of early experience with a conventional web site and with a community site offering facilities for collaboration, we describe a pilot implement...

This paper reports on the implementation, user interface, and experiences with the on-line dictionary system we developed. We call it Avenue. Avenue consists of several different kinds of dictionaries. Since it simultaneously searches all of its dictionaries for each query, the user does not need to specify which dictionary to search for the desired word. Japanese people usually consult several...

This paper presents case studies that describe the experiences of the two authors in trying to use learning technologies to facilitate re ̄ective thinking in their students. At the University of Leicester, a Web-based biology tutorial called `How Now Mad Cow', which covers the topics of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and a new variant Creutzfeldt±Jakob disease (nvCJD). At the University of Sou...

The Scottish Centre for Research into On-Line learning and Assessment (SCROLLA) is part of a Scottish initiative intended to catalyse strategic change within universities. The paper outlines the history of this initiative and provides some of the background that indicated the need for SCROLLA. The focus of the centre is described, along with some of the approaches that are being used to encoura...