With more and more cultural heritage data being published online, their usefulness in this open context depends on the quality and diversity of descriptive metadata for collection objects. In many cases, existing metadata is not adequate for a variety of retrieval and research tasks and more specific annotations are necessary. However, eliciting such annotations is a challenge since it often re...

This chapter provides an illustration of how the models and modeling perspective can be used in collegiate mathematics education research and instruction. The models and modeling approach (chapter 1) provides instructional designers with a well-defined structure for creating curriculum. The curricular activities for this approach, referred to as model-eliciting activities (Lesh, Hoover, Hole, K...

As researchers embrace micro-task markets for eliciting human input, the nature of the posted tasks moves from those requiring simple mechanical labor to requiring specific cognitive skills. On the other hand, increase is seen in the number of such tasks and the user population in micro-task market places requiring better search interfaces for productive user participation. In this paper we pos...

Recently, several innovative tools have found their way into mainstream use in modern development environments. However, most of these tools have focused on creating and modifying code, despite evidence that most of programmers’ time is spent understanding code as part of maintenance tasks. If new tools were designed to directly support these maintenance tasks, what types would be most helpful?...

Current industry trends suggest that IT services are being sourced more selectively. A prominent example of such an IT service is the user help desk that is often an integrated service, where different sub-services are being delivered by different service providers. Hence IT service providers face the challenges of integrating business processes and IT elements as well as service management tas...

Abstract The development of mathematical reasoning skills has increasingly been focus for the teaching and learning mathematics. This research utilizes a simulation using methodology scriptwriting, in which prospective teachers are asked to complete script dialogue from classroom involving fraction multiplication division with justification, assisting fictional students work through their diffi...

Advanced spoken dialogue systems incorporate functionalities such as mixed-initiative and cross-domain dialogues. In this paper an object-based approach to cross domain dialogue modelling is described in which service agents representing primary transaction types and support agents representing tasks such as eliciting payment details are selected as appropriate by a domain spotter. The domain s...