We present Net EvViz, a visualization tool for analysis and exploration of a dynamic social network. There are plenty of visual social network analysis tools but few provide features for visualization of dynamically c...
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We present Net EvViz, a visualization tool for analysis and exploration of a dynamic social network. There are plenty of visual social network analysis tools but few provide features for visualization of dynamically changing networks featuring the addition or deletion of nodes or edges. Our tool extends the code base of the Node XL template for Microsoft Excel, a popular network visualization tool. The key features of this work are (1) The ability of the user to specify and edit temporal annotations to the network components in an Excel sheet, (2) See the dynamics of the network with multiple graph metrics plotted over the time span of the graph, called the Timeline, and (3) Temporal exploration of the network layout using an edge coloring scheme and a dynamic Time slider. The objectives of the new features presented in this paper are to let the data analysts, computer scientists and others to observe the dynamics or evolution in a network interactively. We presented Net EvViz to five users of Node XL and received positive responses.
Over the past several years, several extensions to Bayesian knowledge tracing have been proposed in order to improve predictions of students' in-tutor and post-test performance. One such extension is Contextual Gu...
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(纸本)9789038625379
Over the past several years, several extensions to Bayesian knowledge tracing have been proposed in order to improve predictions of students' in-tutor and post-test performance. One such extension is Contextual Guess and Slip, which incorporates machine-learned models of students' guess and slip behaviors in order to enhance the overall model's predictive performance [Baker et al. 2008a]. Similar machine learning approaches have been introduced in order to detect specific problem-solving steps during which students most likely learned particular skills [Baker, Goldstein, and Heffernan in press]. However, one important class of features that have not been considered in machine learning models used in these two techniques is metrics of item and skill difficulty, a key type of feature in other assessment frameworks [e.g Hambleton, Swaminathan, & Rogers, 1991;Pavlik, Cen, & Koedinger 2009]. In this paper, a set of engineered features that quantify skill difficulty and related skill-level constructs are investigated in terms of their ability to improve models of guessing, slipping, and detecting moment-by-moment learning. Supervised machine learning models that have been trained using the new skill-difficulty features are compared to models from the original contextual guess and slip and moment-by-moment learning detector work. This includes performance comparisons for predicting students' in-tutor responses, as well as post-test responses, for a pair of Cognitive Tutor data sets.
Requirements engineering involves collaboration among many project team members. Driven by coordination needs, this collaboration relies on communication and knowledge that members have of their colleagues and related...
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Requirements engineering involves collaboration among many project team members. Driven by coordination needs, this collaboration relies on communication and knowledge that members have of their colleagues and related activities. Ineffective coordination with those who work on requirements dependencies may result in project failure. In this paper, we report on a study of roles and communication structures in the collaboration driven by interdependent requirements in a software team. Through on-site observations, interviews with the developers and application of social network analysis, we found that there was significant communication between diverse roles in the project, and identified what were the reasons for communication between the different roles. We also found that these interactions typically involved a core of requirements analysts and testers in close communication, that most often they involved critical members whose absence, whether temporary or permanent, would disrupt the information flow if removed from the project, as well as that new hires were mostly isolated from the team collaboration. Most interestingly we found that the emergent communication structure between the different roles in the project did not conform to the planned communication structure prescribed by the organization. These findings further our knowledge about collaboration driven by requirements, and provide some useful implications for research and development of collaborative tools to support the effective coordination of cross-functional teams in software development.
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence presented the 2011 Spring Symposium Series Monday through Wednesday, March 21-23, 2011, at Stanford University. This report summarizes the eight symposia....
This study examines the impact of integrating worked examples into a Cognitive Tutor for genetics problem solving, and whether a genetics process modeling task can help prepare students for explaining worked examples ...
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In this paper we examine the causes of one of the major shortcomings of current natural feature registration approaches, failure to register when the camera's view approaches parallel to the marker. The methods us...
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Citizen science projects can collect a wealth of scientific data, but that data is only helpful if it is actually used. While previous citizen science research has mostly focused on designing effective capture interfa...
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(纸本)9781450302289
Citizen science projects can collect a wealth of scientific data, but that data is only helpful if it is actually used. While previous citizen science research has mostly focused on designing effective capture interfaces and incentive mechanisms, in this paper we explore the application of HCI methods to ensure that the data itself is useful. To provide a focus for this exploration we designed and implemented Creek Watch, an iPhone application and website that allow volunteers to report information about waterways in order to aid water management programs. Working with state and local officials and private groups involved in water monitoring, we conducted a series of contextual inquiries to uncover what data they wanted, what data they could immediately use, and how to most effectively deliver that data to them. We iteratively developed the Creek Watch application and website based on our findings and conducted evaluations of it with both contributors and consumers of water data, including scientists at the city water resources department. Our study reveals that the data collected is indeed useful for their existing practices and is already in use in water and trash management programs. Our results suggest the application of HCI methods to design the data for the end users is just as important as their use in designing the user interface. Copyright 2011 ACM.
This paper introduces an efficient Eigen values based technique for online iris image compression and identification of a human including the case of identical twins. The iris image is extracted after removing the pup...
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This paper introduces an efficient Eigen values based technique for online iris image compression and identification of a human including the case of identical twins. The iris image is extracted after removing the pupil, eye brow, skin and other noise disturbances from an actual image. The extracted iris image is divided into different blocks of size of 16 × 16. Now, Eigen values are calculated for each block and these Eigen values are stored in the smart card memory for further identification. Therefore, when checking if two iris images are identical or not, all we need is to compare the stored Eigen values with online calculated Eigen values. If two iris images have the same Eigen values, this means that both iris images belong to the same person. In our research, we have concluded that iris images of different persons have different Eigen values, including the case of identical twins. We conducted experiments on CASIA and Multimedia University iris image databases and we found that our Eigen Values Based Iris Image Identification Technique is giving 99.99% accuracy for the same image of identical twins and individuals. The implementation leads us to believe that our method is giving the best matching result in the case of identical twins and individuals. It is an efficient, secure and economically feasible approach for online personal identification.
In this paper, we summarize the results of the Pattern Driven Engineering of Interactive Computing Systems (PEICS) which took place at the 3rd ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS) 2...
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