1 Suziah Sulaiman, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, 31750 Tronoh, Perak, Malaysia [email protected] 2 Rohiza Ahmad, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, 31750 Tronoh, Perak, Malaysia, [email protected] Abstract In this paper we investigate common problems made by novice designers in their virtual environment (VE) designs. Our aim through this study is to alleviate some of the problems ...

Understanding the type of research methods that may best fit a given research agenda can be daunting task for novice researchers. In many instances, the problem can seem to be overwhelming in that the novice does not possess the basic familiarity with the fundamental terms and concepts of some of the more commonly used approaches to make an informed decision. This paper provides the novice rese...

Awareness of the risk and incidence of injury during the breakfall movement may lead to a perceived fear, which could be detrimental to breakfall kinematics and may even increase the risk of judo-related head injuries. Therefore, our aim was to investigate the association between the perceived fear of the breakfall movement and breakfall kinematics for osoto-gari in novice judokas. Eight experi...

Novice drivers exhibit deficits in hazard perception that are likely to increase their risk of collisions. We developed a static hazard perception test that presents still images to observers and requires them to indicate the presence of a traffic conflict that would lead to a collision. Responses to these scenes were obtained for young adult novice (N=29) and experienced drivers (N=27). Additi...

In this paper we review the literature relating to the psychological/educational study of programming. We identify general trends comparing novice and expert programmers, programming knowledge and strategies, program generation and comprehension, and objectoriented versus procedural programming. (We do not cover research relating specifically to other programming styles.) The main focus of the ...

The aim of the study is to analyse the sequential paraverbal communication used while teaching by expert and novice PE teachers. Four expert and four novice teachers were observed using a coding scheme of paraverbal behavior. The detection of temporal patterns using Theme v.5 enabled sequential analyses of paraverbal behaviour. The results indicate that compared to expert teachers, novice teach...

This paper describes an initial attempt to compare performance levels of users of different skill levels on the Glasgow Horse Ovary Palpation Simulator (HOPS). Experimental participants were asked to identify the position and size of follicles on the surface of virtual horse ovaries. The two experimental groups were made up of expert and novice users. Experienced large animal veterinarians were...

Providing helpful analysis of cognitive process is one of the main concerns for user modeling and adaptive hypermedia conception. In this paper, a work is presented that looks very closely to the Human Computer Interactions and exploits these interactions to help novice computer users. We think that all the cognitive actions involved in a task resolution reflect the level of expertise that the ...