We conducted a study to determine whether a computer-assisted instruction program in neuroanatomy helped first-year medical students to form biomedical concepts, and to correct their misconceptions. Using questionnaires and interviews, we elicited concepts and misconceptions held by the students, in the domain of cranial nerve anatomy. The computer program exposed the students to the informatio...

This paper is devoted to an industrial case study focused on the issue of how to enhance ITM, a knowledge management tool, with reasoning capabilities, primarily by introducing a semantic query mechanism. ITM knowledge representation language is based on topic maps. We show that these topic maps (and especially those describing the domain ontology and the annotation base) can be naturally mappe...

Recursion is an important concept and a fundamental problem-solving technique in computer science. Studies have reported that it is considered a very difficult concept for students to learn and teachers to teach, and students have many misconceptions about recursion. Tools proposed to overcome these difficulties include visualization and algorithm animation. Conceptual models form the basis of ...

Recent studies have revealed that human position sense relies on a massively distorted representation of hand size and shape. By comparing the judged location of landmarks on an occluded hand, Longo and Haggard (2010) constructed implicit perceptual maps of represented hand structure, showing large underestimation of finger length and overestimation of hand width. Here, we investigated the cont...

Concept mapping systems used in education and knowledge management emphasize flexibility of representation to enhance learning and facilitate knowledge capture. Collections of concept maps exhibit terminology variance, informality, and organizational variation. These factors make it difficult to match elements between maps in comparison, retrieval, and merging processes. In this work, we add an...

Using application oriented conceptual maps to categorize the group discussion would be an advancement in the design of CMC systems to allow much larger groups to collaborate productively. The group meta communication process should allow the group to modify and evolve these conceptual discourse templates.

Maps — specifically floor plans — are useful for a variety of tasks from arranging furniture to designating conceptual or functional spaces (e.g., kitchen, walkway). We present a simple algorithm for quickly laying a floor plan (or other conceptual map) onto a SLAM map, creating a oneto-one mapping between them. Our goal was to enable using a floor plan (or other hand-drawn or annotated map) in...