One of the major criticisms leveled at task-based language teaching (TBLT), despite its countless merits, is developing fluency at the cost of accuracy. The post-task stage affords a number of options to counteract this downside through task repetition and task recycling. These two options are considered to positively affect learners' oral performance in terms of fluency, accuracy, and complexi...

The Universität der Bundeswehr München is conducting research in the field of single-operator multi-aircraft guidance. This article describes the Mixed-initiative Mission Planner (MMP) as far as requirements, concept, design and implementation are concerned. The MMP is applied to a timeconstrained multi-aircraft in-flight mission planning problem. It works in conjunction with a cognitive assist...

As a precursor to the development of a gamified system to improve learning outcomes, we investigate the perception of important stakeholders, namely learners, on gamification in learning. However, as gamification is a relatively new approach/term, we neither assume that learners are knowledgeable about it nor do we attempt to explain the term in detail to them. Instead, we focus on common eleme...

Comparative studies on pen-and-paper and computer-based test principally focus on statistical analysis of students’ performances. In educational assessment, comparing students’ performance (in terms of right or wrong results) does not imply a comparison between the solving processes followed by students. In this paper we present an example of task analysis that allows to highlight how students’...

One of the assumptions in classical planning is that the environment is static: i.e., the planner is the only entity that can induce changes in the environment. A more realistic assumption is that the environment is dynamic; that is, there are other entities in the world and the actions generated by the planner may fail due to the operations of these entitites. In this paper, we describe a plan...

As mobile and social computing is integrated with pervasive computing, new potentials for dynamic social and community interactions and sharing of data and services across real and virtual spaces emerge. Whilst including end users in the design, development and evaluation of such complex socio-technical systems is widely recognised as valuable, reliable methods for managing evaluations of mediu...