Sehda’s 2-way speech translation system, S-MINDS, interprets between provider and patient in routine medical interactions with very high accuracy. Optimizing the system for new tasks or languages requires very little data. New developments include a hybrid translation approach that allows participants to say complex or out-ofdomain utterances, the expansion of hands-free functionality, and the ...

I-MINDS is a computer-supported collaborative learning environment which allows an instructor to establish a virtual online classroom where the students can login an collaborate with each other. This collaboration allows the students to learn from both the instructor and the other students. During this classroom session, I-MINDS works as a communication platform for the students and the instruc...

In this paper we describe computer-supported structured cooperative learning, applied to the laboratories of an introductory CS1 course. We extended IMINDS, a multiagent system that supports student-teacher and student-student realtime interactions, to support a cooperative learning paradigm called Jigsaw. Jigsaw considers of several phases of activities, including dividing students into differ...

This is the retyped and slightly reformulated version of a paper that was circulated and semi-officially published already in 1981 in the Epistemological Letters of the Ferdinand-Gonseth Association in Biel (Switzerland) as Letter No 63.0. (Therefore, terms such as " new " or " recent " refer to that year.) This paper offered a " discussion of the epistemological implications of quantum theory ...

Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environments are used today as a platform for delivering distance education and as a tool to improve student understanding via collaborative learning methods. The success of a CSCL environment in improving the knowledge of a student depends on the quality of group work of its participants. However, forming human user groups that allow all the use...

With the presentation in Ottawa this spring of the report from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada on Indian residential schools, the well-being of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples took centre stage for a few days in the media and minds of the Canadian public. The TRC documented key historical issues that have contributed to major mental health disparities in Canada’s indigenous ...