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Research Publications in journals:
Visualizing a collective student model for procedural training environments
Year:2018

Research Areas
  • Information technology and adata processing

Information
Abstract
Visualization plays a relevant role for discovering patterns in big sets of data. In fact, the most common way to help a human with a pattern interpretation is through a graphic. In 2D/3D virtual environments for procedural training the student interaction is more varied and complex than in traditional e-learning environments. Therefore, the visualization and interpretation of students? behaviors becomes a challenge. This motivated us to design the visualization of a collective student model built from student logs taken from 2D/3D virtual environments for procedural training. This paper presents the design decisions that enable a suitable visualization of this model to instructors as well as a web tool that implements this visualization and is intended: to help instructors to improve their own teaching; and to enhance the tutoring strategy of an Intelligent Tutoring System. Then, this paper illustrates, with three detailed examples, how this tool can be used to those educational purposes. Next, the paper presents an experiment for validating the utility of the tool. In this experiment we show how the tool can help to modify the tutoring strategy of a 3D virtual laboratory. In this way, it is shown that the proposed visualization of the model can serve to improve the performance of students in 2D/3D virtual environments for procedural training.
International
Si
JCR
Si
Title
Multimedia Tools and Applications
ISBN
1573-7721
Impact factor JCR
1,541
Impact info
ISI SCIE. 42/104 (Q2)
Volume
10.1007/s11042-018-6641-x
Journal number
From page
1
To page
28
Month
SIN MES
Ranking
Participants

Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Economía y Sostenibilidad del Medio Natural
  • Grupo de Investigación: Interacción Persona Ordenador y Sistemas Interactivos Avanzados
  • Centro o Instituto I+D+i: Centro de tecnología Biomédica CTB
  • Departamento: Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos e Ingeniería de Software
  • Departamento: Sistemas y Recursos Naturales