Title :
Agent-assisted collaborative concept map
Author :
Kuan, Chuen-Lee ; Lee, Chien-Sing ; Ho, Chin-Kuan
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Inf. Technol., Multimedia Univ., Malaysia
Abstract :
Merlin is a collaborative concept map that enables students to discuss their ideas. The agent in Merlin aims to monitor the students´ content of discussion in order to provide context-sensitive help. Keywords in the students´ discussion in a chat box are compared to the knowledge domain and appropriate support material is adapted to the student model. Instructional media is generated using design patterns.
Keywords :
groupware; intelligent tutoring systems; meta data; multimedia databases; self-organising feature maps; software agents; user modelling; Hopfield neural network; Merlin collaborative concept map; agent-assisted collaborative learning; chat box; design pattern generation; instructional media; keyword; knowledge domain; metadata; student discussion; support material; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Conducting materials; Content based retrieval; Electronic mail; Information technology; Lattices; Monitoring; Visualization; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2003. Proceedings. The 3rd IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1967-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2003.1215084
