Video has emerged as a dominant medium for online education, as witnessed by millions of students learning from educational videos on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Khan Academy, and YouTube. The large-scale data collected from students’ interactions with video provide a unique opportunity to analyze and improve the video learning experience. We combine click-level interaction data, such ...

Purpose MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) have gained popularity for e-learning purposes. Effectiveness depends on platform interface design and management which should create student cohesiveness and optimize collaboration. Design/methodology/approach A MOOC prototype is developed and E-learning applications pilot-tested for one semester with French business school graduate students. Finding...

Robotic manipulators are becoming a very common tool in modern industries and research laboratories. In order to successfully execute a given task a control software is necessary that sends and tracks appropriate orders to the robot arm. This paper presents the design principles of a general software framework capable to control any robot arm with any set of sensors. A possible implementation o...

In this demo proposal, we describe our prototype application, SIERRA, which combines text-based and content-based image retrieval and allows users to link together image content of varying document granularity with related data like annotations. To achieve this, we use the concept of superimposed information (SI), which enables users to (a) deal with information of varying granularity (sub-docu...

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has developed a humanitarian supply management system (SUMA) that records, tracks and reports the flow of donations and purchased goods into a disaster area. While a lot of the received goods are in-kind donations, there is a procurement process triggered by the cash funds to meet specific needs. This procurement process also needs to comply with the ...